This year’s Shakespeare in the Streets differed from its predecessors in focus, but the event was still a winner. Since 2012, Shakespeare in the Streets has usually begun with an outreach from St. Louis Shakespeare Festival to a local neighborhood. The festival sends out a creative team to lead residents in developing and performing an […]

The Clayton Community Theatre’s The Cemetery Club is probably the third community theatre production of the play that I have seen. I’m not complaining. It’s an amusing script, and it has great roles for three actors “of a certain age,” plus a fourth, and a man to join the ladies. I expect to see it […]

Prism Theatre Company has assembled a very fine cast for its production of Anne V. McGravie’s play WRENS, smartly and clearly directed by the company’s Artistic Director Trish Brown. The seven young women in the play are members of the Women’s Royal Naval Service, WRNS, or WRENS as they were called. They served in various […]

For anyone who savored the previous collaboration of Kelly Howe and Joe Hanrahan, their current fusion of theater and cabaret is self-recommending. Hanrahan has created a clever, appealing dramatic framework for Howe’s superb vocalism.

Stages St. Louis is closing is 2023 season with a rousing, fun-filled staging of the jukebox musical, Million Dollar Quartet. The irresistible score features songs recorded by four greats of American music.

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis is at its best in The Lehman Trilogy. On opening night, I watched the fascinating play by Stefano Massini with rapt attention from start to finish.

This review has the 411 on the One Four Fives, an improv troupe that creates and performs a Broadway-style musical completely on the spot. This show is never repeated. Its opening night is also its closing night. The One Four Fives celebrated their fifth anniversary in August. The reason for their longevity was clear at […]

Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer is a play about pride, greed, truth, murder, cannibalism, mental illness, homosexuality, and family, among other things. Williams perhaps lets himself come a little more to the surface in this play than his other most popular plays, more like some of the early one-acts and his late plays. It is […]

The Pajama Game is a musical set in a factory that makes pajamas. Kinky Boots is a musical set in a factory that makes boots and shoes. Both factories have labor problems, but the factory in Kinky Boots has even worse problems. Charlie Price’s father is the third generation of the family to be the […]

            The brilliant Ragtime was created by several artists at the top of their games, and indeed, in the way of the theatre, it is created anew at each performance by the Union Avenue Opera artists. It is a Broadway musical played by an opera company, erasing unhelpful distinctions. Call it a play with music – […]