Saturday, August 8, 2015
Henrik Ibsen’s classic drama, “Hedda Gabler,” premiered in 1891, but Jeff Whitty’s 2012 comedy picks up where Ibsen’s left off, with Hedda (Emily Baker), just having put a bullet i…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 06:08PMFriday, July 31, 2015
Anna Skidis, founder of Theatre Nuevo, is known for her lauded performances in locally produced musicals including Stray Dog’s “Spring Awakening”, “The Who’s Tommy” and New …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:26AMMonday, July 27, 2015
OnSite Theatre, the city’s only site-specific theatre company, produced its first ever family-friendly production earlier this month -- a fanciful folk tale written by local playwright and…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 07:32AMThursday, July 23, 2015
Max & Louie kicks off its fifth season with Frank Marcus’s, “The Killing of Sister George,” a 1965 dark comedy with June Buckridge (Lavonne Byers), at its center. She’s a radio a…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:24AMThursday, July 16, 2015
St. Louis Actors' Studio is back with its third annual LaBute New Theater Festival, named after Tony-nominated playwright and screenwriter Neil LaBute. Nine one-act plays were selected from …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 08:46PMFriday, June 19, 2015
“My Fair Lady” was a huge hit when it premiered in 1956, and now Lerner and Loewe’s classic musical adorns the colossal Muny stage after a seven-year absence with a strong voiced ensem…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:08PMWednesday, June 3, 2015
Ryan MusselmanMartin McDonagh (“The Lieutenant of Inishmore”) has a way with dark comedy. In Theatre Lab’s gripping current production of his 2003 Olivier and Tony award-winning play, …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 07:55AMSaturday, May 30, 2015
Shakespeare’s sweeping account of the ultimate power couple -- Marcus Antonius of Rome, and Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt, is getting a thrilling staging by Shakespeare Festival St. Louis,…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:49PMFriday, May 15, 2015
With the political hot potato of marriage equality reaching critical mass in the States, NJT closes its 18th season with a Canadian musical that couldn’t be more timely. David Hein and his…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:26AMThursday, May 7, 2015
Of all the companies in town that go in for unconventional theatre, few come close to pushing the boundaries like Equally Represented Arts does. ERA’s latest offering premieres six new pla…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 07:52AMMonday, April 27, 2015
Mustard Seed's season comes to a close with a world premiere by playwright Shualee Cook — an old fashioned drawing room comedy with a twist. It’s set in a futuristic virtual reality, whe…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 08:14AMTuesday, April 14, 2015
Upstream closes its tenth season with an absorbing one-act dramatization of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 17th century lyrical ballad, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." If you've never read or …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:05AMFriday, April 10, 2015
About the only thing better than a whodunit is one that allows the audience to choose the culprit. Add in a nifty conceit of some play-within-a-play action, and you've got Stray Dog's impres…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:22AMSunday, April 5, 2015
OnSite Theatre Company has been providing unique, site-specific theatre in St. Louis for eight years now, but its current production, playwright Alec Wild's "Off The Record", is an…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 07:53PMSaturday, April 4, 2015
That Uppity Theatre Company and Vital VOICE team up once again for "Briefs", a festival of short LGBT plays that celebrates its fourth anniversary, founded by Uppity Theatre's Joan Lipkin, a…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:35AMWednesday, March 25, 2015
Another celebration of St. Louis theatre has come and gone, and with a nearly sold out house at COCA, a great time was had by all. And honestly, it's always nice for me to have the opportuni…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 09:52AMMonday, March 23, 2015
The New Jewish Theatre's production of Donald Margulies' "Sigh Unseen" centers around Jonathan Waxman, a Jewish painter from Brooklyn, whose work has brought him fame and fortune. But a visi…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:09PMWednesday, March 18, 2015
Jonathan Tolins' tasty one-man play, "Buyer and Cellar", uses Barbra Streisand's 2010 vanity project coffee-table book, “My Passion for Design”, as a jumping off point for the story of A…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 02:57AMTuesday, March 10, 2015
"Jerry Springer: The Opera", by Brits Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee, premiered in London twelve years ago and received the 2004 Olivier Award for Best New Musical. If you've ever seen the i…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 02:06AMFriday, February 27, 2015
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," one of playwright Edward Albee's most notable works, premiered in 1962 and picked up five Tony Awards. The play was also selected for the Pulitzer Prize fo…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 09:00AMWednesday, February 18, 2015
The Black Rep continues its 38th season with Lydia Diamond's "Stick Fly", a family drama with a bit of a twist. The two Levay sons, Kent and Flip, are bringing their significant others over …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 08:43AMThursday, February 12, 2015
It's funny how a day of good intentions can go down the crapper so quickly sometimes, isn't it? That's the kind of day the Novaks and the Raleighs are having in Stray Dog's current productio…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:30PMSunday, February 8, 2015
Évelyne de la Chenelière's "Bashir Lazhar" is the story of a French-Algerian political refugee living in Montreal. This play, essentially a monologue, was beefed up and adapted into a film…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 08:36PMWednesday, February 4, 2015
Keith Josef Adkins’ “Safe House” is set in 1843 and centers on two brothers -- Addison (Daniel Morgan Shelley) and Frank Pedigrew (Will Cobbs) who live with their Aunt Dorcas (Kelly Ta…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 09:43AMFriday, January 30, 2015
Woo-hoo, the nominations are out! Here's the full list of this year's St. Louis Theater Circle Awards nominees. The third annual ceremony will be on Monday, March 23rd at COCA at 7pm with a …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:39PMMonday, January 26, 2015
Infamous Ponzi schemer, Bernard Madoff, may seem like an improbable subject for a play, but playwright Deb Margolin conceives a morality tale of sorts in the New Jewish Theatre's current off…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:05AMThursday, December 18, 2014
Theatre Lab & The Players Project Theater Company were back a couple Saturdays ago for the third installment of their 24 Hour Play Festival at Webster Groves High School, and like last y…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:24AMSaturday, December 13, 2014
Before Ruth Westheimer became "Dr. Ruth", she was Karola Ruth Siegel, born in Wiesenfeld, Germany to Orthodox Jews in 1928. Her petite stature, spright, thickly accented voice and honest tal…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:48AMMonday, December 8, 2014
The drama-filled, cheap to produce genre of reality television has, for better or worse, multiplied over the last several years, and if anything, it's proven that there will always be people…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 10:34PMSunday, November 23, 2014
"All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914", was originally presented as a radio show on Minnesota Public Radio by the vocal ensemble, Cantus and Theatre Latte Da, until Mustard Seed Theatre …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 06:14PMSunday, November 16, 2014
Experimental theatre company, Equally Represented Arts, is currently staging an original piece created entirely from Craigslist ads. Yep, you heard me. Artistic director Lucy Cashion and ass…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 06:37AM 
