Ann Lemons Pollack
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Voices
Five large and historic figures are on the Missouri History Museum Lee Auditorium stage these days, taking an interesting and personal look at many things. The theatrical piece, "Voices," by the Freed-Yorick Ensemble, opened last night and will run through Jan. 23; it's reminiscent of the Holy Roman Repertory Company, which often performed on this
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Rabbit Hole
Few events in a marriage are more painful than the death of a child, and when it occurs in a moment, with the speed of a light being turned off at the switch, without time to make farewells, without time to prepare emotionally, it’s a horrid experience that spreads through relationships with similar speed. “Rabbit
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Somewhere
On the long and winding road to "Somewhere," writer-director Sofia Coppola took a wrong turn and was irretrievably lost. That's lost as stumbling-through-the-woods lost, or in-the-midst-of-rush-hour-traffic lost, or as what-in-the-world-am-I-going-to-do-about-this lost. And she ended up nowhere. She began with a minimal premise. Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff), a 30-ish male movie actor, more handsome than many,
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The Vine Mediterranean Cafe
As much as we enjoy fine dining, we also take particular pleasure in finding a small ethnic restaurant that stands out. South Grand is Restaurant Row for candidates these days, and we have a(nother) winner. The Vine Mediterranean Cafe and Market offers lots of hits and very few misses. Yes, there's a market next door
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The Giver
In its continuing quest to open the world to the children who will inherit it, Metro Theater Company has explored racism, fear and most of the Seven Deadly Sins, all produced on a level where understanding is both simple and difficult. Simple because events and philosophies are explained on a basic level; difficult because so-called
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Cooking With Elisa
True to its name, Upstream Theater takes us against the current again in "Cocinando Con Elisa," or "Cooking With Elisa," which opened over the weekend at the Kranzberg Theatre in Grand Center. An Argentine political parable, in its first English-language performance and its American premiere, the two-person drama is set in a glorious country kitchen
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The Fall of Heaven
Walter Mosley is a consummate story-teller, a wordsmith without peer. His "Easy Rawlins" novels, his short stories and magazine pieces, are delightful tales of magicians and miscreants, tellers of the tallest of stories. He celebrates men who use their abilities to rail against situations and people who would impinge on their freedom. Men like Tempest
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Spamalot
It's so dumb, but it's so funny! "Spamalot," which opened a highly humorous weekend run at the Fox Theatre last night, is filled with bad puns and word plays, jokes that do not deserve the peals of laughter they get, silly lyrics that create wonderful nonsense. And yet, this was the fourth or fifth time
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Pericles
Besides being a terrific evening of theatre, the Black Rep’s production of “Pericles” offers a new and different thrill–the chance to walk out of a performance whistling the costumes. Sarita Paula Fellows and her assistants, Kathryn Albro and Alison Stewart, light up the stage with imaginative and colorful garb for all 14 cast members, sometimes
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Casino Jack
It's just a damn shame. A damn shame that George Hickenlooper died last October, just before the opening of "Casino Jack," the movie that would have lifted him into the upper ranks of American directors and provided the opportunity for him to climb higher. But ironically, the St. Louis-born-and-reared Hickenlooper was afflicted with the same