335 stories by "Andrea"
Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt's musical is pretty much devoid of any conventional narrative, with roots that reach back to ancient ritual and the winter solstice -- the planet's shortest day …
Shakespeare in the Streets, one of the outreach programs under Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, celebrates its fifth anniversary this year. Combining a community's individuality and history w…
The Rep's 50th anniversary season kickoff was met with a palpable buzz -- and for good reason. While comfortably residing within the canon of Sondheim musicals, Follies is not often produced…
Dedicated to presenting thought provoking St. Louis premieres, R-S Theatrics is at it again. R-S opens its "Season of Semi-Requited Love" with a collection of mostly musical one-acts to fill…
New Line Theatre closed its 25th anniversary season with an unlikely choice. It was an intimate, one-act, one-person musical about a British girl, Emma, living in the States and steering her…
In 1992, Weekly World News published an outrageous, recurring story about a "bat child" spotted in a southern cave in West Virginia. Keythe Farley, Brian Flemming (book) and Laurence O'Keefe…
In 1975, a documentary by Albert and David Maysles related the story of two cloistered, interdependent, eccentric residents living in a wealthy East Hampton neighborhood. After years of pros…
When Company opened in 1970, it was considered a "concept musical." Abandoning a linear narrative, its vignettes center around a milestone birthday for Robert, a single guy living in New Yor…
The origins of the atomic bomb don't initially sound like your typical musical theatre fare. But Danny Ginges and Philip Foxman's Australian import about the unleashing of the world's first …
Royal nuptials, a romantic mis-match, an amateur theatre troupe, and a band of mischievous fairies in an enchanted wood. What could happen, right? You'll find out in Shakespeare Festival St.…
Siobhan, in a cast after injuring her hand in a bicycle accident in Brooklyn, finds taking showers too cumbersome, so she's been taking baths in the houses of friends, and in this uniquely i…
This is not your aba's Yentl. Probably most closely associated with the 1983 vanity project movie musical -- directed, co-written, co-produced, and starring Barbra Streisand, this version is…
"The Two Character Play," one of the many offerings during this year's inaugural Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis, is one of Williams's later works, and performed in The Learning Center…
Equally Represented Arts is back with another enveloping, innovative production that places Shakespeare's Macbeth as its spine, and includes excerpts ranging from Emily Post's Etiquette and …
Nikolai Ivanov, and most of his countrymen, are suffering from numbing boredom. But Ivanov is not only bored as hell, he's irascible. He disparages just about everyone who crosses his path, …
That Uppity Theatre Company and Vital VOICE were back again last weekend for "Briefs: A Festival of Short LGBTQ plays," presenting eight works selected from over 200 nation-wide submissions.…
Stray Dog's latest production has every bit the vibe of a rock concert when you walk into the theatre. The band, typically secluded somewhere behind the set, is front and center, warming up …
Jon Marans' Pulitzer Prize-nominated play offers a lot of layers underneath a facade that seems, initially, predictable. Stephen Hoffman is a 25 year old piano prodigy who's burned out, and …
In the 1980's, the threat of nuclear war hung heavy over the country like radioactive ash. That threat, and Liane Ellison Norman's book, Hammer of Justice, inspired Tammy Ryan's play, receiv…
Another St. Louis Theater Circle Awards ceremony has come and gone, and the award recipients, as well as the impressive bevy of nominees, are a testament to the talent we're lucky enough to …
The fury that simmers within generations of young adults is nothing new, but New Line's current production of Green Day's "American Idiot," adapted from the band's 2004 concept album of the …
Stray Dog's latest production, a two-act play written in 1979 by Peter Colley, has a familiar assortment of promising, hair-raising set-ups. The Sanderson couple, Greg and Jan (Jeff Kargus a…
A library book that's 113 years overdue sets the action off in Glen Berger's 2001, one-actor play in NJT's latest production. Our protagonist, a Dutch Librarian, is determined to hunt down w…
The nominations are out! Here's the full list of this year's fourth annual St. Louis Theater Circle Awards nominees. The ceremony will be on Monday, March 21st at a new location -- the Skip …
If you think the recent holidays were stressful for your family, trust me -- it's nothing compared to the rancor going on in James Goldman's 1966 dramatic comedy, "The Lion in Winter." Histo…
