We  are very lucky in St. Louis to have many fine actors on our stages. An outstanding  gathering of them is currently on the stage of The New Jewish Theatre. They are performing a piece in which each plays multiple characters. As they are playing characters, I suppose you can call what they are presenting […]

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis has assigned its artistic A-team to the company’s current production of Tosca. The stage director is OTSL’s artistic director James Robinson. The conductor is OTSL’s principal conductor Daniela Candillari. Their collaboration produces a superb fusion of music and drama.

SATE recently presented the Seventh Annual Aphra Behn Festival at Fontbonne University. The company established the festival in 2017 to provide growth opportunities for women interested in writing and directing plays. The festival is now even more inclusive, offering the same opportunities to transgender and non-binary artists. The festival’s namesake is thought to be the […]

Cherokee Street Theatre has returned with another one of its delightful pop culture parodies. This time the object of the genial satire is the original version of Clash of the Titans.

Agatha Christie struggled to find the best way to present the story now being told by the Clayton Community Theatre under the title Murder on the Nile. Christie first thought of it as a play called Moon on the Nile but then decided it might work better as a novel, which she called Death on […]

I have always felt luke-warm toward the musical The Addams Family, even before I first saw it. How could anyone else, in whatever format, hope to match the ever-unfolding ghoulish wit of Charles Addams’ cartoons in The New Yorker. So I was prejudiced. The TV show, for all its cleverness, did not give me much […]

The 2023 season at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis has opened in triumph with Treemonisha. The production is the world premiere of a new performing version of Scott Joplin’s opera.

The touring arm of the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, the Imaginary Theatre Company, when it has filled the school year with performances for students in the larger St. Louis area on both sides of the river, for one weekend shares its productions with the general public.

The more I see the musical Sister Act, the more I appreciate it. I was misled by my first encounter with the show, which was in a splashy touring production. Its pizzazz was a distraction from human story at the heart of the show. That story is paramount in the current staging by KTK Productions, which builds to a stirring conclusion.

In his curtain speech, Kirkwood Theatre Guild president Ken Lopinot noted that in the company’s ninety-one years, this is the first time it has done The Sound of Music. It’s a very popular show, done multiple times at The Muny and other theatres. Why not at Kirkwood? As I watched the production, I got some […]