Two-page director's note (desperately in need of editing) distributed with tickets: check. Bare stage, walls covered with graffiti-like daubings: check. Egregious brutality: check. People si…
One of the 20th century's most significant operas, "Wozzeck" was unquestionably the artistic highlight of the Santa Fe Opera season.
In 1924, two wealthy Chicago students convinced of their own superiority murdered a little boy to prove they could get away with "the perfect crime."
The great Santa Fe Opera may be the region's musical gorilla, but the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, which this year runs from July 17 to Aug. 22, offers an array of musical delights " and…
The Arts & Education Council has announced a record-breaking workplace giving campaign at Edward Jones. Some 2,700 of the company's employees donated a total of $625,000, an increase of …
He's only on for a moment, but he makes his mark
Puccini's "La Boheme" is, understandably, one of the world's most popular operas: It's filled with gorgeous melodies, sympathetic characters and touching situations. This score can survive a…
Santa Fe Opera's updated production of Gounod's Faust, seen August 1, does a better job than most, allowing its Victorian Mephistopheles to wrap himself in the trappings of medicine, and com…
St. Louis Art Museum is adding a restaurant and cafe to its expansion project, set to be finished in 2013.
The musical is the last show directed by Paul Blake, executive producer of the theater for 22 years.
At heart, "She Loves Me" recounts a sweet romance set in Budapest before the war, so it's only natural to expect everything smothered in whipped cream.
When the iconoclastic English playwright Edward Bond gets his hands on theatrical conventions, watch out. "Restoration," his dazzling take on the mannered comedies of the late 17th and early…
St. Louis Shakespeare
When KFUO "Classic99" (99.1 FM) closed down at midnight July 6, 2010, most of the station's staff lost their jobs. Under the terms of their severance agreements with the Lutheran Church-Miss…
The sale of KFUO had an effect at last year's Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod convention, says Paul L. Maier, third vice president of the synod. While it was not the only factor, Maier says, …
LONDON ' In the summer of 1986, Kristin Scott Thomas was poised to make her feature-film debut in "Under the Cherry Moon" opposite Prince when she got pulled aside by a somewhat exasperated …
The sale last year of the region's only classical music station, KFUO "Classic99," to Gateway Creative Broadcasting's Christian contemporary pop outlet JOY-FM made representatives of the reg…
Kristina Van Dyke comes to the Pulitzer from the Menil Collection in Houston, and begins her new position on Nov. 7.
For lovers of musical theater, St. Louis is the place to be this week.
Readers have picked the finalists, now it's time to cast your votes until noon on Aug. 5.
Here's a video we dig about local painter Michael Anderson, who sketches St. Louis' streets, historic buildings and attractions. Anderson is a member of Urban Sketchers, an international org…
MOMIX, the dance-illusion ensemble that played the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center in April, will return for an encore performance on Sept. 13.
Musical is enjoyable if you don't think too much about its overly simplistic plot.
During its run of "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" this week, the Muny will collect donations to aid those affected by the tornado that devastated Joplin, Mo., in May.
Gioachino Rossini's "La Cenerentola" " his take on the Cinderella story " is among the best of his comedies, with a delightful story, sparkling music and an aria for the heroine that is to d…