Ann Lemons Pollack

  • Tinseltown

    One of the great unheralded pleasures of small theatre is small venues. The Midnight Company’s new show Tinseltown is working at the .ZACK. There are times when the black box there isn’t a good fit for a show, the sort of thing that happens with many venues due to many things. But here we have

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  • Who’s Holiday

    Cindy Lou who? Don’t give me that blank look. You know perfectly well the little girl who tried to steal our hearts in The Grinch…. Yes, the now-classic children’s Christmas book/television special/Jim Carey movie/animatedmovie. That one. Whatever happened to Cindy Lou? Surely you’ve asked yourself that question practically every holiday season. Or not. Our girl

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  • Football and food?

    Why, yes, and we're not talking about Super Bowl snacks. The SEC Network (that's the South East Conference for athletics, to which Mizzou belongs) has a food show with serious cred. John T. Edge, noted author on the topic of Southern food and founding director of Southern Foodways Alliance, in conjunction with the New York

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  • Such a Deal!

    One of the lesser-known jewels of Jewish holiday food is available until Saturday, the end of Hanukkah. AO & Co. has sufganiyot – that’s a long “o” and the last syllable is emphasized – from noon until they sell out, through Saturday. The festival celebrates the oil for lamps not burning out, which means fried

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  • The Lucky Accomplice

    Situated on a dazzlingly unremarkable block on South Jefferson, The Lucky Accomplice clearly hasn’t needed Clayton rents or Central West End foot traffic to draw attention. A delicious combination of raw brick, wood tables and retro-style enclosed booths hold a group of diners, mostly young, who understand they’re the lucky ones. They’ve gotten a chance

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  • Pretty Woman the Musical

    Maybe you had to have been there. The Fox has reopened for the first time since the shutdown last spring. The air on opening night was full of excitement. The Fox is requiring full vaccination or a recent COVID test – the latter can even be done by a nearby testing site, and purchasing tickets

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  • Jake’s Women

    Moonstone Theatre Company begins its onstage life with Neil Simon’s Jake’s Women at the new Kirkwood Performing Arts Center. Among the amazingly prolific Simon’s plays – almost half his work was screenplays, which we tend to forget – this is one of the lesser-known. Jake (Jeff Cummings) is a pretty successful writer, complete with a

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  • Brunch: Juniper

    Many years ago, a small theater chain in rural Missouri ran a promotion titled “Beans, Bacon and Biscuits”. Those basic food items turned out to be a promotion of a grocery giveaway. Who would have thought that we’d look at those things in a far different light now? Beans, which were grabbed up in the

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  • IT IS MAGIC

    Is IT IS MAGIC too much inside baseball, so to speak, for people who don’t live in the world of live theatre? Well, no, not unless this is your first time ever to go to a play. I admit, having experienced it, it’s difficult to explain to an adolescent whose world of entertainment is entirely

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  • Blue/Orange

    Blue/Orange is the sort of play it’s hard for me to be neutral about. It’s set in a hospital, and some readers may know that for many years I worked as an RN. Nearly all that time was spent in acute-care settings rather than outpatient ones. I’m the sort of person it’s easy to imagine

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