A local couple has been taking an unrivaled architectural adventure with three structures – all the while inviting area residents to join them.
New Jewish Theatre closes its 2018-19 season with a hard-working production of this dark comedy by playwright Tasha Gordon-Solmon.
Story: Singer/songwriter Nina Simone, nee Eunice Kathleen Waymon of Tryon, North Carolina, pays a visit to the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama the day after a bomb decimated the holy building, killing four young black girls who were attending services there on September 15, 1963.
Story: Passengers aboard 39 jets on September 11, 2001 are left anxious and concerned when they learn that their flights have been diverted for unknown reasons. After what seems like an interminable period on the tarmac, they finally are allowed to disembark their planes.
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In a gorgeous overview of the sonic landscape here, a local music maven all but beseechs readers to (shall we say) “come together.”
Story: It’s a calm, quiet Sunday in St. Louis in the 1930s, an ideal day to Bodey’s way of thinking for a picnic at Creve Coeur Lake Park, just a trolley car ride away from the small apartment she shares with her younger friend Dorothea.
Mustard Seed Theatre concludes its 2018-19 season with a compelling, local premiere production smartly directed by Bess Moynihan of this probing, one-act character study by Lucas Hnath.
Story: Ex-minister T. Lawrence Shannon arrives at a seedy little hotel on the coast of Mexico in 1940 with a busload of women tourists. He doesn’t give a damn about any of them, not even Charlotte, the 16-year-old girl he’s seduced en route to the tucked-away resort run by his friends Fred a…
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Clayton’s new Bemiston Cocktail Club offers a low-key, come-one-come-all atmosphere.
Story: Owen returns from Dublin in 1833 to his native town of Ballybeg in County Donegal in Northern Ireland. He’s accompanied by an English cartographer named Captain Lancey and Lieutenant Yolland, a young orthographer (adept in the rules of language) who is charmed by the language and cult…
Evan Fornachon and Jaclyn Amber prove themselves equally accomplished at singing, dancing and acting in Kirkwood Theatre Guild’s explosively energetic production which lights an inextinguishable fuse of gloriously effervescent entertainment.
Story: After 18-year-old Eugene Morris Jerome is drafted into the Army in 1943, he and a number of other recruits take the train from New York City south to Biloxi, Mississippi, where they undertake their basic training before being deployed.
For a fourth straight year, an area event pays tribute to one of the nation’s greatest playwrights.
Tim Price’s affecting, absorbing drama is given a top-notch presentation in its American premiere production currently at Upstream Theater.
Story: A 17-year-old orphan named Kim in 1975 is compelled to seek work in a Saigon bar and brothel called Dreamland under the scheming eye of a man known as The Engineer. A group of American soldiers visits, checking out the mock “Miss Saigon” pageant while choosing which young woman to tak…
Inspired by the emergence of museums and pop-ups dedicated to giving visitors the best selfie backgrounds, two sisters-in-law created The Selfie Room in St. Louis.
Story: A group of women gather at a country home in New England, circa 1935. They’ve been invited by Fefu to rehearse a presentation being given by their charity on education at their friend Cindy’s home.
St. Louis Actors’ Studio revives one of master playwright Sam Shepard’s finest works as a fitting piece of its “Blood Is Thicker Than Water” 12th season.
Story: Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army, has inadvertently angered his trusted ensign Iago by promoting another officer, Cassio, to be his lieutenant after a triumphant campaign. Seeking revenge, Iago takes advantage of the wounded feelings of the Venetian Roderigo, who is in …
Il Palato’s debut marks a triumphant return to Clayton for Michael Del Pietro – and new territory for the Italian dining scene in the metro area.
Director Justin Been leads an energetic, lively ensemble in Stray Dog Theatre’s triumphant rendition of this thinly veiled story of The Supremes and Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr.
Story: Rosalind Franklin already has built a reputation for her work in X-ray crystallography, a new technique in which X-rays diffracted through molecules are used to record photographic images. In 1942 she takes a research position with the British Coal Utilization Research Association, ea…
Story: Tough times are upon Popcorn Falls. With its namesake waterfall, the main source of income for the quaint little town, dried up, the residents are in a tight spot. They need revenue and fast.
Story: Jerusha Abbott proclaims herself to be ‘the oldest orphan in the John Grier Home.” She’s lived there all of her 18 years, and was named after a moniker etched on a tombstone in the local cemetery.
Alphanumerics and other images couple in electrifying ways in a new COCA exhibition.
Donald Margulies originated this two-act drama in 2009 in Los Angeles before it transferred to Broadway, where it ran in two incarnations in 2010 and early 2011.