Saturday, August 7, 2021
Shakespeare, six actors, 24 parks and free admission? Oh, yeah. St. Louis Shakespeare Festival’s brand new regional touring initiative, “TourCo”, is bringing a 90-minute adaptation of …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 10:06PMSaturday, July 31, 2021
Based on letters compiled and turned into a best-selling book by author Cheryl Strayed after her 2 year stint as an advice columnist for an online magazine, Tiny Beautiful Things proves a wo…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 07:24PMSunday, September 29, 2019
“If the snake sheds his skin before a new skin is ready, naked he will be in the world, prey to the forces of chaos.” This is a line delivered by the “oldest living Bolshevik” at the…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:06AMThursday, September 12, 2019
It’s been over 25 years since Tony Kushner’s Angels in America opened on Broadway, but the Rep’s season opening production of this two-part epic is confirmation of its enduring potency…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 10:03AMFriday, February 15, 2019
In a White House Rose Garden ceremony in 1993, the Oslo I Accord, an effort that sought to bring an eventual end to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine, was signed. A play abou…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:48AMSunday, November 4, 2018
Since 2001, Shakespeare Festival St. Louis has been chiefly known for thrilling audiences with its annual, free summer productions in Forest Park, and its education/touring program, In the S…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 10:48PMMonday, October 29, 2018
Rebel And Misfits transports audiences to the middle of a pulsing, modernized interpretation of Macbeth in the third installment of its Immersive Theatre Project, where a roughly 10 minute b…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 02:18AMThursday, October 25, 2018
There’s a new theatre company in town, newly launched by local actor Sean Michael -- a familiar face to New Line Theatre audiences. The Q Collective will explore gender, sexuality, and ori…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 12:48AMSunday, October 14, 2018
Thorny mother and daughter relationships have been at the center of comedies and dramas for forever. But Jewish mothers? Oof, right? NJT opens its 22nd season with a comedy that’s salty an…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 08:48PMSunday, October 7, 2018
The Southern home of the Giddens family has a whiff of new money to it, but siblings Ben Hubbard (Chuck Brinkley), Oscar Hubbard (Bob Gerchen) and Regina Giddens (Kari Ely) have a deep capac…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 06:06PMTuesday, September 11, 2018
There’s a slip of the tongue from Eva Duarte de Perón in “A New Argentina,” as she tries to ease her husband’s qualms about his presidential bid when she concedes, “We'll ... you'…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 07:48AMSunday, August 26, 2018
French philosopher and playwright Jean-Paul Sartre’s 1944 rendering of Hell doesn’t involve pitchforks or brimstone, but there is torment nonetheless. In a new translation by Alyssa Ward…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:06PMTuesday, August 21, 2018
From 9 Circles and Adding Machine: The Musical, to The Cherry Sisters Revisited, Parade and In the Heights, R-S Theatrics has never shied away from the risk of locally debuting ambitious pla…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:24PMSaturday, August 11, 2018
ERA is at it again, kicking off FAUSTival -- an artistic collaboration among Equally Represented Arts, The Midnight Company, Theatre Nuevo, SATE, and the Post-Romantics. Each company wi…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 07:36AMMonday, August 6, 2018
The stage at Tower Grove Abbey is set for some tale tellin' in Stray Dog’s season closer, Alfred Uhry and Robert Waldman’s The Robber Bridegroom. The musical was based on a novel that wa…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:42PMWednesday, August 1, 2018
When Bob (Alan Knoll) and Jennifer (Laurie McConnell) meet their new neighbors, John (Isaiah Di Lorenzo) and Pony (Kelly Hummert), it would seem the only thing they have in common is the las…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:24AMSunday, July 22, 2018
The second set of one-act plays in this year’s LaBute New Theater Festival kicked off this past Friday, and while the first half offered a mixed bag, this second half is strong. LaBute’s…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 11:48PMWednesday, July 11, 2018
The LaBute New Theater Festival is back for its sixth year at St. Louis Actors' Studio. The finalists are culled from about 300 entries, and six new short plays have been chosen, along with …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:32AMSunday, July 8, 2018
Presented by Grand Center, St. Louis Public Radio, and the Kranzberg Arts Foundation, the sixth annual Grand Center Theatre Crawl kicked off last Friday. Over the course of 2 days, with venu…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 12:32AMSunday, June 24, 2018
Playing out on the steps of the St. Louis Central Public Library, Shakespeare Festival’s Shakespeare in the Streets celebrated its sixth year last weekend. Originally scheduled to run in S…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 03:42AMSaturday, June 16, 2018
Henrik Ibsen’s 1891 play, adapted here by Jon Robin Baitz, introduced what would become an icon of dramatic literature. During the course of the play, Hedda Gabler (an outstanding Nicole A…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 05:24AMSaturday, June 9, 2018
If you’ve ever run across an odd item in a relative’s home that you’ve never seen before and wouldn’t in a million years expect to see, it can send your mind racing with the possible…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 09:04PMWednesday, June 6, 2018
Ah, young love. And long-standing family feuds, potions, poisons and suicide. Whether it’s in the form of a ballet, opera or West Side Story, Shakespeare’s tale of star-crossed lovers is…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 01:32AMFriday, June 1, 2018
The angsty boredom that tugs at the characters in Anton Chekhov’s, Uncle Vanya, pours out in f-bomb-laden grievances in Aaron Posner’s, Life Sucks. With a contemporary spin and self-awar…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 05:48PMMonday, May 14, 2018
Hardly a mention of Tennessee Williams’ 1947 classic can be made without a reference to its iconic film counterpart. Don’t remember the film? Good. It’s better to have a head free of a…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 10:54PMFriday, May 4, 2018
Between 1945 and 1946 in Nuremberg, Germany, prominent Nazi officers were brought to account by the Allied Forces for war crimes after World War II. Abby Mann’s fictionalized account …
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 12:42AMTuesday, April 17, 2018
After an appearance last season at the Muny and a live broadcast this Easter, St. Louisans have another opportunity to catch Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's classic rock op…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 12:05AMSunday, April 8, 2018
Most people don’t like to have their views challenged. But when your long-held convictions about religion are upended? Oof. Forget about it. That’s what got Baruch de Spinoza excommunica…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 08:29PMTuesday, March 27, 2018
Another awards night has come and gone, this time generously hosted by the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, with a delicious buffet provided by With Love Catering. Congratulations to all of t…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 10:51AMWednesday, March 14, 2018
An art installation titled Devil in a Red Dress greets the guests downstairs at the Rep’s studio theatre. Featuring the work of visiting Chinese conceptual artist, Lin Bo, the showing is c…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 12:34AMWednesday, March 7, 2018
The racy shenanigans and silly scheming going on among the passengers aboard a transatlantic cruise in Cole Porter’s, Anything Goes, offered a welcomed breather from the gloom of the Great…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 04:19PM