Theater/Film Reviews
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An American in Paris
Ah, romance. There’s plenty of it right now at the Fox Theatre. The current run of An American in Paris goes through January 29. Based on the mid-century film that was inspired by Gershwin’s 1928 orchestral composition of the same name, it’s about art and love and loss. Those Gershwin sounds that are pretty irresistible.
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Mixing the Arts
Mixing the arts together is always an interesting idea, and mostly it’s a good one. Opera Theatre of St. Louis is indulging in just that with a series of get-togethers at venues throughout the area, mixing food, drink and music. It’s not quite “dinner and a show”, but almost. It’s (probably heavy) appetizers and some
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All My Sons
All My Sons is a whopper of a show. No singing, no dancing, just story and actors, plus some fine tech work, mark Repertory Theatre St. Louis’ remarkable current offering. It was the breakthrough play for Arthur Miller’s career, beating out The Iceman Cometh for a Tony in its 1947 debut. Like so much of
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Menopause The Musical
You might as well laugh about it. That’s the idea with Menopause The Musical, which has returned to the Playhouse at Westport. About 10 years ago, it was done there, and they’ve re-assembled the cast from that iteration of the show. MTM began in Orlando, and has been done all over the world, including long
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The Book of Moron
To begin with, let us make perfectly clear that The Book of Moron is not a parody of The Book of Mormon. Currently running at the Playhouse at Westport Plaza through New Year’s Day, and performed by its creator Robert Dubac, the subtitle is If Thinking Were Easy Everyone Would Do It. Moron is a
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Fun Home
Fun Home, which just opened at the Fox, has recently begun its first national tour. It’s not quite coming home for the holidays – this is a New York show – but it’s surely visiting the grandparents. Fox Associates, which began with the glorious makeover of the Fox Theatre in 1982, are among the producers
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Hamlet: See What I See
To vary the pronoun and punctuation, “Age cannot wither him, nor custom stale, his infinite variety.” We are, of course, talking about Our Boy William Shakespeare, although that quote is from his Antony and Cleopatra. Rebels and Misfits Productions gives us their Immersive Theatre Project, Hamlet: See What I See, and in the wonderful Spanish-style
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Forbidden Broadway
Comic relief ought to be in much demand these days. The Playhouse at Westport Plaza is trying to ease the pain with its current offering Forbidden Broadway. The show began in 1982 as a revue playing a club in New York, featuring parodies of various musicals. It’s been updated a dozen times since then, utilizing
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Cuddles
Slightly Askew Theatre has come up with another show befitting the group’s name. Cuddles sounds a lot cozier than its reality. Two sisters (or are they?), one of whom is a teenager who stays in her room in a castle-like building, the other a strong-willed businesswoman and her sister’s caretaker, are the characters in this
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Mothers and Sons
“It is not natural, this business of a parent burying a child,” Emperor Haile Selassie told Rose Kennedy at a White House reception during the awful days at the end of November 1963. It’s true So we go into Mothers and Sons, now at the Rep Studio, prepared to some degree to be sympathetic to