Ann Lemons Pollack
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Dr Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas
It's difficult to be a curmudgeon this time of the year. Christmas sweetness is everywhere, but there are times when gum drops and candy canes are delicious. So it is with Christmas theatricals. Most of them have enjoyable scenes, if nothing else, and nice singing and dancing. Besides, I encourage all parents out there to
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Brunch: Dressel’s
We’ve been enjoying watching and tasting the evolution at Dressel’s as Ben, son of founder and long-time owner, Jon, has taken the helm, expanding both the premises and the menu. Now the Welsh- and classical music-themed Central West End veteran has begun serving Sunday brunch. And it’s definitely brunch and definitely delicious; the regular menu
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My Three Angels
My Goodness!! An old-fashioned comedy. You remember — funny lines, many laughs, real wit, good timing, no stupidity, no four-letter words, no violence, two intermissions. That's "My Three Angels," a 1953 Broadway success and a 1955 movie (re-titled "We're No Angels") that has been frequently revived ever since. It opened over the weekend as a
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The Santaland Diaries
Let's look at the other side of the Christmas coin, or the Hannukah gelt, and get a view of those who think differently, like David Sedaris, for example. In search of work one year, he signed on as an elf — named Crumpet, no less — working in the winter wonderland at Macy's in New
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The story is part of everyone's heritage, its literary turns as familiar as the curves on U. S. 61 between here and Hannibal, its characters as well-known to us as our own relatives. And when the famous fence is the first thing we see as we enter the Rep, we settle in for an anticipated
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Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey
"It isn't easy being green," is one of Kermit T. (for the) Frog's most famous lines, and a more recent Muppet, Elmo, could echo it with a different color, which we learn in "Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey," which opens here today. The documentary, directed by Constance Marks and narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, follows Elmo's
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The Last Night of Ballyhoo
Like many playwrights, Alfred Uhry makes fun of the people he loves and loves the people he makes fun of. He showed this in "Driving Miss Daisy," his most honored play, and he does it again in "The Last Night of Ballyhoo," which opened last night at the New Jewish Theatre, to run through Dec.
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Tony’s
The St. Louis dining institution that is Tony’s may or may not still be at home at Broadway and Market in another few years. Plenty of speculation on that, but no firm answers. But what about this restaurant that’s become the subject of so much chatter recently? What’s going on there? Tony’s key word must
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Black Nativity
There's enough Christmas music to last from now to Valentine's Day, all in a single performance of "Black Nativity," the flashy, tuneful, sparkling St. Louis Black Repertory Company musical revue that opened last night at the Grandel Theatre and will run through Dec. 18. Conceived and directed by Ron Himes, and first presented a couple
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My Week With Marilyn
Michelle Williams doesn't look like Marilyn Monroe, in my opinion. But she has the walk, the poses, the attitude, the voice, the hair and other things just like her. And, in "My Week With Marilyn," which opens here today, she offers a perfect re-creation in a charming, funny movie, based on a couple of Colin