Ann Lemons Pollack
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Just One Bite: Only This Week at Elaia
Lots of good things to eat at the 38 Eats promotion of St. Louis restaurants during this Shakespeare marathon weekend, and I sampled three Wednesday afternoon. A particular salute to the porchetta Ben Grupe is offering at Elaia. It’s an example of just how a pork tenderloin can be roasted past pinkness and still keep
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38 Eats
It's getting into high season for St. Louis entertainment. Lots of great things are coming up, and this weekend is Shake 38, the marathon celebration of Shakespeare and his works, an operation of Shakespeare Festival St. Louis. They must be particularly wise folks because this year they're including food in the festival. Lots of participating
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August: Osage County
Probably no one worries about whether a play is a comedy or a drama except critics and people who teach theatre. For the average person, the question is, is it funny or not? Having not so long ago gone through the St. Louis Theatre Clrcle Awards annual process of nominating and voting, wherein we –
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Dancing at Lughnasa
Dancing at Lughnasa is a memory play, much like St. Louis’ own The Glass Menagerie. Mustard Seed Theatre has put together an ensemble for Brian Friel’s 1990 play that enlivens an already sparkling script. It’s a family drama, seen in the rear view mirror of Michael Evans (Jim Butz), relating the story of his mother
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Cod Squad: Week 5
North County is mostly terra incognita to me. So when I set off to find the Knights of Columbus #2951 in Florissant, it was map time. Actually, it wasn’t hard to get to, but as I turned west onto St. Francois Street I began to wonder if this two-block stretch that dead-ended was correct. Never
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Brunch: 12 West
A road trip? Yes, please. En route to any number of places, Ste. Genevieve's historic sites or the Ste. Genevieve County wineries, or across to Elephant Rocks State Park or down to the whitewater at Silver Mines, 12 North in Farmington would work well. You can read about their brunch here. No guarantees as to whether there's
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Sweeney Todd
This has turned out to be a surprisingly lovely spring, at least right now, trees starting to green as the sunlight slants through them, redbud and dogwood blooming simultaneously, which doesn’t always happen. Then, for contrast, there’s what’s inside Tower Grove Abbey these days. Sweeney Todd, brought to us by Stray Dog Theatre, is a
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Cod Squad: Week 5
The Cod Squad headed south, almost to the Meramec River, in fact, to St. Francis of Assisi in Oakville. (Am I the only one old enough to remember this area before it had an actual name?) Sure enough, in the school gym, on the south side of the building. There are two parking lots, one
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Ignite! The Disappearing Man
This is very short notice for you, the reader, I know. For the first time, the Rep’s Ignite! Series is repeating a show. This series of play readings is mostly for people who are dedicated theatre buffs, because it’s no sets, no lights, just actors, chairs, and scripts. The first show of the three in
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Sex with Strangers
Sex with Strangers has just opened. It’s from Rebels and Misfits Productions, opening their second season with a series they’re calling “An Intimate Theatre Project”. And it is intimate, certainly. It’s in a former private home that now seems to have been turned into an event space. The two-person play began with work at the