335 stories by "Andrea"
Shakespeare, six actors, 24 parks and free admission? Oh, yeah. St. Louis Shakespeare Festival's brand new regional touring initiative, "TourCo", is bringing a 90-minute adaptation of Othell…
Based on letters compiled and turned into a best-selling book by author Cheryl Strayed after her 2 year stint as an advice columnist for an online magazine, Tiny Beautiful Things proves a wo…
"If the snake sheds his skin before a new skin is ready, naked he will be in the world, prey to the forces of chaos." This is a line delivered by the "oldest living Bolshevik" at the start o…
It's been over 25 years since Tony Kushner's Angels in America opened on Broadway, but the Rep's season opening production of this two-part epic is confirmation of its enduring potency. It's…
In a White House Rose Garden ceremony in 1993, the Oslo I Accord, an effort that sought to bring an eventual end to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine, was signed. A play abou…
Since 2001, Shakespeare Festival St. Louis has been chiefly known for thrilling audiences with its annual, free summer productions in Forest Park, and its education/touring program, In the S…
Rebel And Misfits transports audiences to the middle of a pulsing, modernized interpretation of Macbeth in the third installment of its Immersive Theatre Project, where a roughly 10 minute b…
There's a new theatre company in town, newly launched by local actor Sean Michael -- a familiar face to New Line Theatre audiences. The Q Collective will explore gender, sexuality, and orien…
Thorny mother and daughter relationships have been at the center of comedies and dramas for forever. But Jewish mothers? Oof, right? NJT opens its 22nd season with a comedy that's salty and …
The Southern home of the Giddens family has a whiff of new money to it, but siblings Ben Hubbard (Chuck Brinkley), Oscar Hubbard (Bob Gerchen) and Regina Giddens (Kari Ely) have a deep capac…
There's a slip of the tongue from Eva Duarte de Perón in "A New Argentina," as she tries to ease her husband's qualms about his presidential bid when she concedes, "We'll ... you'll be ha…
French philosopher and playwright Jean-Paul Sartre's 1944 rendering of Hell doesn't involve pitchforks or brimstone, but there is torment nonetheless. In a new translation by Alyssa Ward and…
From 9 Circles and Adding Machine: The Musical, to The Cherry Sisters Revisited, Parade and In the Heights, R-S Theatrics has never shied away from the risk of locally debuting ambitious pla…
ERA is at it again, kicking off FAUSTival -- an artistic collaboration among Equally Represented Arts, The Midnight Company, Theatre Nuevo, SATE, and the Post-Romantics. Each company wi…
The stage at Tower Grove Abbey is set for some tale tellin' in Stray Dog's season closer, Alfred Uhry and Robert Waldman's The Robber Bridegroom. The musical was based on a novel that was lo…
When Bob (Alan Knoll) and Jennifer (Laurie McConnell) meet their new neighbors, John (Isaiah Di Lorenzo) and Pony (Kelly Hummert), it would seem the only thing they have in common is the las…
The second set of one-act plays in this year's LaBute New Theater Festival kicked off this past Friday, and while the first half offered a mixed bag, this second half is strong. LaBute's The…
The LaBute New Theater Festival is back for its sixth year at St. Louis Actors' Studio. The finalists are culled from about 300 entries, and six new short plays have been chosen, along with …
Presented by Grand Center, St. Louis Public Radio, and the Kranzberg Arts Foundation, the sixth annual Grand Center Theatre Crawl kicked off last Friday. Over the course of 2 days, with venu…
Playing out on the steps of the St. Louis Central Public Library, Shakespeare Festival's Shakespeare in the Streets celebrated its sixth year last weekend. Originally scheduled to run in Sep…
Henrik Ibsen's 1891 play, adapted here by Jon Robin Baitz, introduced what would become an icon of dramatic literature. During the course of the play, Hedda Gabler (an outstanding Nicole Ang…
If you've ever run across an odd item in a relative's home that you've never seen before and wouldn't in a million years expect to see, it can send your mind racing with the possible stories…
Ah, young love. And long-standing family feuds, potions, poisons and suicide. Whether it's in the form of a ballet, opera or West Side Story, Shakespeare's tale of star-crossed lovers is kno…
The angsty boredom that tugs at the characters in Anton Chekhov's, Uncle Vanya, pours out in f-bomb-laden grievances in Aaron Posner's, Life Sucks. With a contemporary spin and self-aware wi…
Hardly a mention of Tennessee Williams' 1947 classic can be made without a reference to its iconic film counterpart. Don't remember the film? Good. It's better to have a head free of any nag…
