The current offering at Stray Dog Theatre is an engaging production ofTerrence McNally’s 1987 play, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.

Frankie Muse Freeman spent her life fighting discrimination and helped to establish many civil rights policies.

Frankie Muse Freeman was a civil rights icon who served as the lead counsel in the landmark 1954 case Davis et al. v. the St. Louis Housing Authority, which ended legal racial discrimination in public housing. She was the rst woman appointed to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and was later inducted into the […]

The Tesseract Theatre Company has mounted another impressive staging of a musical. The current offering is “Jagged Little Pill: The Musical,” which takes its name and inspiration from a 1995 album by Alanis Morisette.

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This week on Spotlight, discover the landmark legal battles and trailblazers who transformed civil rights in America. From Dred Scott v. Sandford to Shelley v. Kraemer, these pivotal cases reshaped the nation’s laws and civil liberties, with roots in St. Louis. The episode also spotlights groundbreaking leaders like Nathan B. Young, one of the first African American municipal judges in Missouri; Margaret Bush Wilson, a barrier-breaking attorney and activist; and Frankie Muse Freeman, the first woman appointed to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Together, their stories reveal how courage in the courtroom helped shape justice across the United States.

Misterioso is the delightful show currently running at Circus Harmony. As in all the company’s offerings, the name is a musical term, and a scenario holds the circus acts together.

I went to a drinking game, and a Shakespeare play broke out. Both were barrels of fun. The occasion was the second installment of Boozy Bard, the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival’s foray into acting under the influence. The first production in the series was last year’s Drunkbeth. This year’s follow-up is The Reclaiming of the […]

SATE’s current offering is the premiere of Classic Adventure Movie; or Never Say Die. The affectionate parody pays homage to The Goonies, the 1985 classic in which kids get to live out an Indiana Jones–style adventure.