Story: Retired English professor Norman Thayer and his wife Ethel have visited the same cabin on the shores of Golden Pond in the woods of Maine for 48 years. He’s about to turn 80, she’s nearing 70 but they look at life through different prisms.
A local theater-centered organization helps incarcerated and otherwise troubled Missourians battle adversity.
Story: Magic Smoking Monkey Theatre, which has regaled audiences for 20 years with its silly, slapstick and sometimes sophisticated salutes to cinema, both good and bad, recently took on the Herculean task to comically summarize the American Film Institute’s newest compilation of the Top 100…
Story: A “roustabout” named Chad is released from prison somewhere in the Heartland in the 1950s. While traveling on his motorcycle, he enters a town searching for a mechanic to fine-tune his vehicle. The best mechanic happens to be a young woman named Natalie, who instantly is smitten by th…
A Michigan master of silica-based art augments the Climatron and environs with an ongoing exhibition.
Union Avenue Opera’s 23rd season is off to an invigorating start with a charming rendition of this three-act chamber opera written in 1947 by British composer Benjamin Britten.
Story: The fifth annual LaBute New Theater Festival hosted by St. Louis Actors’ Studio at the Gaslight Theater is, like its predecessors, divided into two parts. The first edition, running through July 16, features four different one-act plays, including one by festival namesake Neil LaBute.…
Fine performances by her cast under the gentle direction of Trish Brown epitomize the humanity and compassion of Ernest Thompson’s script in Insight Theatre Company’s inaugural presentation at its new home.
Story: Pseudolus is a slave in ancient Rome. As slaves go, his lot isn’t awful. He is the personal attendant to Hero, son of Roman senator Senex, whose house stands between one to its right owned by the elderly Erronius and a building on the left where Marcus Lycus runs a house of ill repute…
For its latest season, Union Avenue Opera seeks in various ways to revitalize for today a trio of venerable productions.