Story: Perestroika picks up on the story initially told in Millenium Approaches, the first part of Angels in America. To recap Millenium Approaches, in October 1985 Prior Walter XXXIV, the last scion of a WASP family which dates its arrival in America back to the Mayflower, receives shocking…

Story: In October 1985 Prior Walter XXXIV, the last scion of a WASP family which dates its arrival in America back to the Mayflower, receives shocking news from his physician. The 30-year-old Prior has been diagnosed with a deadly disease called AIDS, for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome,…

One of the metro area’s leading galleries opens its most recent season with intriguing exhibitions from a quartet of visual artists.

Story: This 1970s musical revue looks at the African-American experience in America through a wide collection of tunes ranging from gospel, the blues and soul to rock, pop, jazz and even a little calypso. Topics of the era ranging from black power to feminism to discrimination, poverty and h…

Story: In 1941, Modernist artist Henri Matisse advertises for a “young and pretty night nurse” to help care for him at his home in Nice, France. A nursing student and amateur artist named Monique Bourgeois responds to the ad and, despite thinking she is unattractive, is hired immediately by …

Story: The massive door to the imposing dungeon swings open as a pair of guards ushers in its two newest prisoners. They are Miguel de Cervantes, who has pleaded guilty to being “an idealist and a bad poet,” and his faithful servant. The Spanish Inquisition has imprisoned Cervantes for darin…

The metro area’s most acclaimed purveyor of frozen treats celebrates its 90th anniversary.

The metro area’s music scene remains as lively as ever, offering jazz, folk, orchestral and operatic selections year-round.

Awe-inspiring athleticism and breathtaking beauty are scheduled to grace area stages later this year as top local troupes unveil their new seasons of ballet, modern, tap, hip-hop and contemporary dance.

Much to the delight of theatergoers throughout the metro area, proscenium arches and similar structures here will never, ever go to cobwebs and dust thanks to the efforts and enthusiasm of the troupes that follow!

As testified by these 15 listings, visual art continues to flourish at manifold locations both large and small – galleries, museums and other venues less easily classifiable – throughout the metro area.

Story: Matilda Wormwood is not exactly the apple of her parents’ eyes. In fact, the little girl is constantly subjected to verbal and emotional abuse by her self-centered mother and vapid father. She has been since she was born, when she “deprived” her mum of her annual ballroom-dancing comp…

Story: An older couple who have recently passed on looks back on the last years of their lives, which were spent in a senior living community known as Pelican Roost. They introduce the audience to some 18 different characters who contribute to the fun times, the eccentricity and wacky advent…

Recently revamped, the historic International Shoe Co. building at the heart of St. Louis’ garment district now houses a hotel that salutes the city’s fashion, culture and diversity.

uStory: Four starving artists share an apartment in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the mid-19th century. The quartet of young men -- Rodolfo the poet, the painter Marcello, philosopher Colline and Schaunard the musician – prepare to enjoy a Christmas Eve dinner courtesy of Schaunard’s recent …

Story: Sandy Drombowski had a most pleasant summer away from high school, striking up a romance with a nice young man named Danny Zuko. When the 1959 school year begins, however, Rydell High School’s newest student, Sandy, is surprised to learn that Danny goes there, too.