Upstream stages Scottish play

'Outlying Islands'

Upstream stages 'Outlying Islands' by Judith Newmark • Post-dispatch Theater Critic > [email protected] > 314-340-8243

Since there aren't exactly a slew of dramas about ornithologists, Scottish playwright David Greig's "Outlying Islands" promises to take us to new territory " territory perhaps as unfamiliar …

A Doll's House

Feminist spirit comes alive in Ibsen's 'A Doll House' by Judith Newmark Post-dispatch Theater Critic [email protected] > 314-340-8243

Willowy Julie Layton is among the most beautiful actresses on the St. Louis stage. With her current performance as Nora in "A Doll's House," she demonstrates that she's also among its most m…

If you go: 'Five Guys Named Moe'

'Five guys named Moe'

Black Rep's exhilarating 'Five Guys Named Moe' is a crowd pleaser by Judith Newmark • Post-dispatch Theater Critic > [email protected]

No matter who you usually go to the theater with, you might want to make different arrangements for "Five Guys Named Moe," the exhilarating musical that the Black Rep just opened.

McBride leaves fans feeling good at Scottrade by Amanda St. Amand [email protected] 314-340-8123

When one of the most powerful female voices in country music apologizes for having a cold or allergies that might affect her singing, fans might expect to be a little disappointed.

MADCO entertaining, exhilerating by Calvin Wilson [email protected] > 314-340-8346

MADCO " also known as the Modern American Dance Company " put on an entertaining and often exhilarating show Saturday evening at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center.

'Fantasticks' magically rounds out Repertory Theater's season by Gabe Hartwig • [email protected] > 314-340-8353

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis closes this season with its first-ever production of the world's longest-running musical, "The Fantasticks." The show opened off Broadway in 1960 and ran f…

If you go: 'Desire Under the Elms'

'Desire Under the Elms'

Excellent cast lives up to O'Neill's 'Desire Under the Elms' by Gerry Kowarsky • Special To The Post-dispatch

When a production lives up to the script, the plays of Eugene O'Neill are as stageworthy as ever. Director Jerry McAdams and his excellent cast rise to the material in the gripping revival o…

Rep presents an engaging 'Crime and Punishment' by Judith Newmark • Post-dispatch Theater Critic [email protected] > 314-340-8243

Raskolnikov (Jimmy King) is having a bad dream.

"Crime and Punishment"

Funny pair spoof themselves in musical by Judith Newmark • Post-dispatch Theater Critic > [email protected] > 314-340-8243

Ben Nordstrom and Steve Isom have entertained St. Louis in plenty of musicals " at Stages St. Louis, at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, all over.

If you go: 'Gutenberg'

'Gutenberg! The Musical'

Another bad mother takes center stage by Judith Newmark • Post-dispatch Theater Critic

Maybe unhappy families are all alike, too.

If you go to 'The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds'

'The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds'

If you go: Lyric Opera

'The Damnation of Faust' and 'The Marriage of Figaro'

Lyric Opera has study in contrasts by Sarah Bryan Miller • Post-dispatch Classical Music Critic > [email protected] > 314-340-8249

CHICAGO ' Lyric Opera of Chicago performs opera on a grand scale and in a variety of production styles. The company offered a contrast " one that's Eurotrashy and one that's sumptuously trad…

Family eats its young , makes great theater by Judith Newmark • Post-dispatch Theater Critic > [email protected] > 314-340-8243

As the riveting second act of "August: Osage County" plays out around a crowded dining room table, you have to wonder what these people are eating.

Organist brings authority to French works at Cathedral Basilica by Sarah Bryan Miller Post-dispatch Classical Music Critic > [email protected] > 314-340-8249

Organist Lynne Davis arrived in Paris as a newly minted college graduate in 1970, an incredible time and place in the history of music: She was able to study with the likes of Jean Anglais, …

River North takes dance in exciting directions by Calvin Wilson • [email protected] > 314-340-8346

ST. LOUIS ' River North Chicago Dance Company struck an intriguing balance between artistry and showbiz Saturday evening at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center. Presented by Dance …

If you go: 'The People's Violin'

'The People's Violin'

'People's Violin' is one of New Jewish's best by Judith Newmark Post-dispatch Theater Critic [email protected] 314-340-8243

As is his custom, playwright and actor Charlie Varon wrote "The People's Violin" as a one-man show in which he plays all the parts. But surely he realized what a dazzling gift he was giving …

If you go: 'The Shape of Things'

'THE SHAPE OF THINGS'