Ann Lemons Pollack
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The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night. [Credit not to Bette Davis in All About Eve but to Joseph Manckiewicz; we don’t give Olivier credit for “Alas, poor Yorick,” do we?] But it is going to be a bumpy night at Mustard Seed Theatre for those who go see The Last Days
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Raging Skillet
Raging Skillet is the sort of show that transports one to a very small theater in, say Greenwich Village. It’s not mainstream theatre, nor does it want to be. But it is very, very funny. Rossi – a one-word name – is a chef who clawed her way up through the catering world to make
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Chef
I came across the first few pages of the script for Chef online. Upstream Theatre is giving us the American premiere of this play from the British-Egyptian playwright Sabrina Mahfouz, and directed by Marianne de Pury. Chef, the only identification given to the character, arrives onstage carrying a peach. The script is written as a
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The Little Foxes
The theme for St. Louis Actors’ Studio’s 12th season is “Blood Is Thicker than Water.” Blood is an interesting metaphor for family. Compared to water, not only is it thicker, it’s stickier. It can leave permanent stains. It clots. It carries nourishment but it also provides a pathway for various illnesses. Yeah, it’s a dandy metaphor.
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Mamma’s Boy
The fascination over the assassination of President John Kennedy has waned in recent years. It’s now almost fifty-five years since that November lunchtime in Dallas and the current political situation has eclipsed many things that went before. But there was a time when several generations could cite chapter and verse of not only where they
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An Apology for the Course and Outcome of Certain Events Delivered by Doctor John Faustus on This His Final Evening and The Hunchback Variations
FAUSTival, a collaborative series of four plays based on the Faust legend and the numerous works of art that sprang from it, has a September offering from The Midnight Company. It’s a double bill, the first being An Apology for the Course and Outcome of Certain Events Delivered by Doctor John Faustus on This His
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Love Never Dies
Mozart probably wrote Cosi fan tutti with a quill. Andrew Lloyd Webber appears to have written Love Never Dies with a broad-tipped Magic Marker. It’s a sequel to Phantom of the Opera, and in many ways, “opera” is the key word here. It’s as broadly played as any grand opera, certainly, capes flourishing and arms
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Peel Wood Fired Pizza
As a pizza lover, there’s no such thing to me as too many pizza places. Yes, I can do without the national chains, certainly, but new spots always attract my attention. They especially attract my attention when they serve things like mussels and paella.That’s an odd go-with, someone mutters. Bear with me. Peel Wood Fired
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Oklahoma!
You've been acquainted with someone for years. You think you know them. And then, after spending the evening together as usual, you find that they're not quite the same person you thought you knew. Consider the same thing in theatre. Stages St. Louis closes its 2018 season with Oklahoma!, a show that first graced a
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Crowns
BEAUTIFUL is the best word to begin to describe Crowns, The Black Rep’s opening show of the new season. Staged at Washington University’s Edison Theatre, it’s a celebration of African American women, the glory of their hats and where the tradition arose. A show that’s sung as much as it is acted, it brings satisfying