335 stories by "Andrea"
You won't find any elves or sugary confections in Stray Dog Theatre's traditionally, non-traditional holiday show. What you will find is Buddy Thomas and Kenneth Elliott's camp-tacular, 1950…
Playwright Rajiv Joseph's 2008 drama places a delicate art at its center. Origami, with its precise execution of intricate folds, makes a fitting prism to look through at three people, suffe…
Patrick Barlow's 2005 spy spoof was adapted from a couple of sources -- John Buchan's 1915 adventure novel, and its later incarnation as Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 thriller flick, and SATE is c…
"I and this mystery here we stand." This is the first thing Anthony (Reynaldo Piniella) says to Caroline (Danielle Carlacci) in the Rep's Studio Series opener, written by Lauren Gunderson. I…
The Fox Theatre's regional premiere of "Matilda," a British import that has won multiple awards, has the power of knowledge and empowerment at its heart, with a little genius at its center, …
It's the perfect time of year for the Rep's current Mainstage production -- right when Autumn's chill starts to set in. Patrick Hamilton's dramatic thriller premiered on the West End in…
"Dogfight" takes place in November, 1963, as a group of rambunctious young Marines, fresh out of boot-camp, head out for a testosterone-fueled night on the town in San Francisco before they …
"People will look at the ashes of Westerburg and say, 'Now there's a school that self-destructed, not because society didn't care, but because the school was society."' That line that J.D. s…
What happens when you put four hopeful writers, eager to be published, in a room with a once acclaimed novelist? Well, the punchline in Theresa Rebeck's 2011 play is laced with a constant cu…
Last weekend, Shakespeare in the Streets took to Old North St. Louis -- at the intersection of N. 14th and Montgomery streets, to be exact. For the past four years, Shakespeare Festival St. …
Civil rights, the Constitution, race riots and the bare-knuckle business of politics. If you didn't know any better, you'd think that the focal points that take center stage in Robert Schenk…
Anne Washburn's 2012 three-act play begins sometime in "the very near future," after an apocalypse of nuclear proportions. The group of survivors in "Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play" travel …
SATE's mid-season production of Naomi Wallace's "One Flea Spare" feels aptly at home in the intimate space of The Chapel. Her introspective account of the inhabitants in a home under a 28-da…
"Spellbound! A Musical Fable" was originally conceived in 1994 by Stray Dog's artistic director, Gary F. Bell and Robert L. White. Recently taken off the shelf and given the once-over, Bell …
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 in her head…
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 Line's "Rent…
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 a…
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 actor wit…
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 …
"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 ensemble an…
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, the "b…
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, c…
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 w…
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 plays…
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, where m…
