335 stories by "Andrea"
Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize winning drama about the lives, loves and deaths in Grover's Corners has been around since 1938, and Insight Theatre is celebrating the play's 75th anniversar…
"Entertaining Mr. Sloane", written by English playwright Joe Orton, is currently getting a jaunty revival at HotCity. This sordid little comedy that premiered in 1964 may have los…
In 1913, Leo Frank, a Jewish Yankee living in Atlanta, was accused of raping and murdering 13-year-old Mary Phagan, an employee at the National Pencil Factory where Frank worked as the super…
Okay so, I got a little bored over the Labor Day weekend and did this. Yes, sometimes having a YouTube Channel is a dangerous thing… :)Thanks for watching!
I saw a couple of cool theatre things in August that have ended, but wanted to give a little shout-out to, so let's start with…COMPLICATED LIVES: AN EVENING OF SHORT PLAYSStray Dog Theatre…
You think you've got a messed up family? Think again. Max & Louie Productions closes its 2013 season with a brutally comedic look at one of the most caustic families you're l…
Insight Theatre continues its season with a thoughtful character study of sorts by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Donald Margulies. A couple of his plays that I've seen before ("Co…
There's another new theatre company on the scene, folks -- Theatre Lab, and according to the "About" section provided in the program, the "Lab" part of its title "…indicates that our compa…
Road trip!!OAT's season closer, "Into the Woods", was inspired by Bruno Bettelheim's 1976 book, The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. In Sondheim and Lapi…
"Legally Blonde, The Musical" was adapted from the 2001 film and premiered on Broadway in 2007 after a San Francisco tryout. This female empowerment flavored confection about Elle Wood…
Part two of the LaBute New Theater festival started last Friday with the second set of four new plays that will run until the 28th, along with LaBute's "The Possible", written especially for…
Roger Corman's 1960 low-budget cult classic about a nebbishy flower shop employee named Seymour who raises a carnivorous plant, inspired a long-running off-Broadway production with book and …
Tony-nominated playwright and screenwriter Neil LaBute's plays include, "In the Company of Men", "The Shape of Things", "Fat Pig", "reasons to be pretty" and "Reasons to Be Happy", that just…
Just in time for the 4th of July Holiday, 1776 looks back at the efforts to establish a new nation of independent states, breaking away from the rule of the British Empire. Although th…
Shrek The Musical, based on the 2001 animated DreamWorks film that was in turn loosely based on William Steig's picture book, Shrek!, is making its Muny debut. This story about an ogre…
The second annual St. Lou Fringe has come and gone and although there were over two dozen performances varying from theatre and dance to workshops, music and street performances, I was only …
A musical about a transgender singer from East Berlin? You bet! Hedwig became an off-Broadway hit in 1998 after gathering a cult following and ran for two years, inspiring a film…
Just a quick shout out to remind folks that the second annual St. Lou Fringe is upon us! It starts this Thursday and will run until the 24th in midtown St. Louis. Em Piro, the fe…
Where else can you take in a show and get some laundry done at the same time, I ask you? OnSite's distinctive characteristic is that its shows are staged "on site", and this world prem…
Stray Dog Theatre really seems to be on a roll. In the past couple of seasons, they've handsomely produced everything from Psycho Beach Party to The Who's Tommy to Spring Awakening and…
R-S begins its season with Dan O'Brien's The Cherry Sisters Revisited. The play, inspired by the real-life Cherry Sisters, was part of the 34th Humana Festival of New American Plays in…
Insight Theatre kicks off its season with a play that, like many Neil Simon plays, is largely autobiographical. Chapter Two, premiering in 1977, chronicles the grief Simon suffered aft…
New Line closes its 22nd season with Bukowsical, another wonderfully executed regional premiere. Charles Bukowski, an American German-born poet, short story writer and novelist, was co…
The Black Rep concludes its 36th season with The Wiz (full title -- The Wiz: The Super Soul Musical "Wonderful Wizard of Oz"), adapted from L. Frank Baum's classic children's novel and patte…
Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare adapted An Iliad from Homer's epic poem, The Iliad, but the director's notes mention that the two shouldn't be confused. In this powerful production from…
