The Community Music School of Webster University has announced the new conductor of the Young People's Symphonic Orchestra: He is David Commanday, artistic director of the Heartland Festival…
Thirty-one years ago, Steven Woolf directed his first play at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, a Studio Theatre production of David Mamet's two-man drama "A Life in the Theatre." Now Wool…
"Othello" will be this summer's show in Forest ParkÂ
Gerre Hancock, who was to have given an organ recital at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis on Sunday (January 22) as part of the Cathedral Concerts series, died on Saturday at the age of 7…
A century ago, the interior of Christ Church Cathedral acquired its single most distinctive feature: the carved stone reredos, or screen, behind the matching high altar. Elegantly sculpted, …
It's serious! It's hilarious! It's Richard Strauss' delightful "Ariadne auf Naxos," and it's the penultimate offering of Winter Opera St. Louis' 2011-2012 season.
Jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis leads one of the most imaginative quartets of recent years, and pianist Joey Calderazzo is a big part of its success. But at the Sheldon Concert Hall on Su…
One thing you learn in the theater is how to take a bow.
Despite an alarming plea for money from its new interim director, the 125-year old St. Louis Artists' Guild is not on the verge of shuttering. An infusion of $15,000 in donations will keep t…
Yes, his father was the legendary John Coltrane. But saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, who's appearing through Saturday at Jazz at the Bistro, is a first-rate artist in his own right. His fine new …
Choreographer-dancer tests the boundaries "of the space, and of the self."
The name is excessively hyperbolic, but the singing should be good: you can see and hear "3 Superstars in Berlin" in select St. Louis Wehrenberg Theatres on January 26 and February 1.
The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra has announced that the concerts of January 27 through 29 will have a new conductor and new soloist. The repertoire, however, remains the same.
Cathedral Concerts has announced that organist Gerre Hancock, who was to have performed in recital at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis at 2:30 Sunday afternoon, has dropped out due to uns…
Troupe folds after 17 years
Mama critters at the St. Louis Zoo have had a busy new year. This year, dozens of baby bugs have been born at the zoo's insectarium including 67 white-spotted assassin bugs. Native to Afr…
The Light Up the Night Fat Tuesday Parade will move yet again, this time to Washington Avenue. Scheduled for 7 p.m. Feb. 21, the route will start at Broadway and Washington Avenue and travel…
MATT AT BAT: Local art gallery operator and curator, Matt Strauss, who has become bi-coastal in the past couple years, had his first curated show at a NYC gallery open on Friday.
Discount continues celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King
HA FAREWELL: Paul Ha, former -- and only -- director of the St. Louis Contemporary Art Museum in Grand Center, will be honored at the museum's annual gala Feb. 4 begining at 6 p.m. at the Fo…
We asked Bill Christman, Greg Rhomberg and Jim May to name some of their favorite local signs. To see more area signs, see our online gallery at stltoday.com/arts.
The last time Christine Brewer sang Richard Strauss' "Vier letze Lieder (Four Last Songs)" with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, it was January of 2003 and the conductor was the bombastic, …
NEW YORK ' After seeing "The Mountaintop" on Broadway, Laurence Fishburne went backstage, stunned.
Bill Christman and Greg Rhomberg don't know whether people will view an exhibit of old signs -- but they obsess over them every day.
You can be among the first to learn about the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra's 2012-2013 season when you attend (or tune into) the SLSO's annual Town Hall Meeting at Powell Symphony Hall at 6:…