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We've lost another of the good guys. Fio Antognini passed away in an accident Wednesdday. See more here: https://www.stlmag.com/dining/chef-fio-antognini-dies-in-rock-climbing-accident-in-utah/
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Infected
Infected would be a great show if it had a better script. The new offering at Upstream Theatre is by Albert Ostermaier, an award-winning German playwright who taught a semester at Washington University a few years ago. Upstream’s artistic director Phillip Boehm did the translation. It’s a one-man show with Alan Knoll as the unnamed
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Hermits
If one Googles “food that tastes better the next day”, there’s a veritable encyclopedia of stories on that subject.. As respected an authority as J. Kenji Lopez-Alt says it pretty much isn’t so except for things with high acidity whose tanginess is lessened. I’ve been reading Kenji for more than a decade, and I respect
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It is with great sadness that I pass on the news of the death of Richard Perry. He left us on Christmas Day. We have no word on a public service for him yet. Here's a remembrance: https://www.stlmag.com/dining/long-time-chef-and-restaurateur-richard-perry-dies-at-79/
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A pretty quiet time of the year for theatre openings, and much of what I'm writing about food is going to St. Louis magazine. But here's this from their blog – maybe not so much resolutions as a wish list. https://www.stlmag.com/dining/dining-critic-ann-lemons-pollacks-wish-list-for-2018/
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More Titus Androgynous
YoungLiars Titus Androgynous has been extended through November 18th. It wasn't to my taste, but I'm glad it's doing well.
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DOT
It’s no small task to mix broad comedy and a serious subject like Alzheimer’s disease. The Black Rep’s new show DOT, by Colman Domingo, attempts, and, for the most part, succeeds in doing so. Moreover, it manages without poking fun at the disease or the person who has it. Everything else, however, is fair game.
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Goody Goody Diner.
The first time I went to Goody Goody Diner must have been – oh, well, never mind, I guess I am that old. But the cops from Mobile Reserve, a bunch of guys very serious indeed about law enforcement, hung out there. (The unit was absorbed into the SWAT team years ago.) Three years ago, the
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Albert Herring
Those who mutter about opera being too serious, too heavy, should hie themselves to Union Avenue Opera’s current offering Albert Herring, good lighthearted stuff in the heat of mid-July. Victorian morals cross swords with a mamma’s boy in the tale of a shy grocer. Albert is named King of the May after none of the
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LaBute New Theater Festival 2017, part 1
St. Louis Actors’ Studio’s LaBute New Theater Festival has opened. As usual, there’s a new LaBute short play and six other plays from their competition. Also as usual, the Festival is in two parts, each composed of the LaBute offering, this year called Hate Crime, and three of the winners. Hate Crime is classic LaBute,