Upcoming events

Live Music is Better

For more information, contact Lyn Hammerstone at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

https://www.hammerstones.net

Ron E. Young

Lost & Found

June 21-August 19, 2019

Opening Reception: Friday, June 21, 2019

6 pm-8 pm

I scrounge the alleys, boarded-up buildings and vacant lots like an archeologist searching for buried treasure. The ghosts of a once thriving community have a story to tell before all memory of their existence is erased. My current studio practice involves assembling disparate elements, things that I scavenge and collect from the carnage that is now North St. Louis City. From these discarded materials I create my mixed-media assemblages. The materials I collect are from city streets and neighborhoods, a treasure trove of materials left behind for me to collect – wrought iron metal; rusty nuts, bolts, screws; ropes and chains; old broken tools; lots of wood, now burnt and rotten, that were once doors, window frames and decorative molding; and an abundance of bricks. I use these discarded objects to create art that tells a story about what we value and how we treat the people that once owned them.

For more information, contact Jeff Wunrow at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

https://parishgallerycwe.org/

Acoustik Element performs Every Wednesday & Thursday Night at Cinder House at the Four Seasons Hotel in Downtown St. Louis. 

Come out and enjoy the great weather, delicious food and gorgeous scenery!

Latin Instrumental Music for Any Occasion

The University City Summer Band, under the direction of Tom Poshak, will be playing its twenty-third season. The concerts begin at 7 PM, last about 80 minutes, and include a short intermission. Parking and access are easy. Seating is on the lawn. Bring a lawn chair or blanket as available bench seating is limited. Bring your children! Bring a picnic! A refreshment stand sponsored by various groups will be available.

The band’s repertoire includes marches, show tunes, jazz, original pieces for band, light classics, patriotic selections, popular music and transcriptions – we guarantee something for everyone from young children to senior citizens. Dine at one of the many restaurants in the University City and Loop area and then join us for a relaxing concert in the park.

For more information, contact Mark Thiel at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

http://www.ucsummerband.org

Award-winning journalist and creator of the blog GIRLilla Warfare Lisa Barr returns with a new novel about finding yourself and your "next chapter" in the wake of personal devastation. “The Unbreakables” follows Sophie Bloom, who discovers that her husband is on the list of cheaters during the notorious Ashley Madison hack. Reeling from betrayal, she escapes to France and slowly reclaims the shattered pieces of her life. Gripping and insightful, this is the ultimate "summer read" and is based on research Lisa did with several women who unexpectedly found themselves in this exact same position following the Ashley Madison hacking scandal.

For more information, contact Jennifer McBride at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

http://www.slcl.org/authors

Emmy Award-winning comedienne Vicki Lawrence is one of the most beloved television personalities of her generation. At the age of 24, Vicki started on the Carol Burnett Show and became one of the legendary and most loved cast members. In 1973 she earned a gold record for the hit “The Night the Lights Went out in Georgia. Then Vicki created her most endearing character to date, Thelma Harper, or “Mama” as she is better known to her fans. After the Burnett Show, Vicki went on to star in “Mama’s Family,” which consistently topped the ratings for its entire six-year run of original shows. “Mama” has attained almost a cult status among her legions of loyal television viewers, who still enjoy her in reruns twice daily throughout most of the country and the world. No stranger to television, Vicki and her Burnett-crony Tim Conway were coupled as parents on CBS-TV’s “Yes Dear,” where their popularity garnered that sitcom its highest ratings. Vicki perfected her hosting skills on her own daytime talk show, appropriately called "Vicki!," from 1992 to 1994.

This is not Vicki’s first foray into theater. She has appeared in numerous productions, including Carousel, Send Me No Flowers, No, No, Nanette, My Fat Friend, Chapter Two, Twigs, Hello Dolly, Special Occasions, I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking It ON The Road, Annie Get Your Gun and live from the Grand Ole Opry, Nunsense 3: The Jamboree which aired on TNN.

MUST BE 21+ YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER TO ATTEND.

Price: $28 

https://www.facebook.com/events/494168008076470/

https://www1.ticketmaster.com/event/06005647D4FD92A9#efeat6916

For more information, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

https://www.rivercity.com/entertainment/concerts-and-events/vicki-lawrence-and-mama/

Four beautiful, badass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back the extremist insanity in 1793 Paris. This grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world. It’s a true story. Or total fiction. Or a play about a play. Or a raucous resurrection…that ends in a song and a scaffold.

Thu, 27 Jun 2019 8 PM

Fri, 28 Jun 2019 8 PM

Sat, 29 Jun 2019 8 PM

Sun, 30 Jun 2019 2 PM

Wed, 03 Jul 2019 8 PM

Fri, 05 Jul 2019 8 PM

Sat, 06 Jul 2019 8 PM

Sun, 07 Jul 2019 2 PM

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 8 PM

Fri, 12 Jul 2019 8 PM

Sat, 13 Jul 2019 8 PM

Sun, 14 Jul 2019 2 PM

For more information, contact Coach S. at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

https://insighttheatrecompany.com/shows/the-revolutionists-2019/

St. Louis Actors’ Studio will produce the 7th “LaBute New Theater Festival". The Theater Festival will run at the Gaslight Theater, 358 North Boyle, home to St. Louis Actors’ Studio.

Professional and High School Submissions were accepted October through December 2018. To be considered entries had to have no more than four characters, and be crafted specifically to exploit our intimate performance space (18' x 18' stage). Changes in scenery or setting should be achievable in a few seconds and with few major set moves. Our focus is on fundamental dramaturgy: plot, character, theme.

Professional, new, previously unproduced one act play submissions (45 minutes or less) included a letter of inquiry, a synopsis and a 10-page sample from the script.

Four Winning plays by high school students will be presented in readings at 11 am on July 20 at the Gaslight Theater. Admission to the reading FREE.

Six plays were chosen: One group to be performed in the first two weeks of July, the final group in the second two weeks. “Great Negro Works of Art”, a Midwest Premiere from Mr. LaBute, will be performed every night for the run of the festival.

July 5-14, Set One

“Great Negro Works of Art” by Neil LaBute, Directed by John Pierson

“Color Timer” by Michael Long (Alexandria, VA), Directed by Jenny Smith

“Privilege" - by Joe Sutton (West Orange, NJ), Directed by Jenny Smitn

"Kim Jong Rosemary" by Carter W. Lewis (St. Louis, MO) Directed by John Pierson

July 19-28, Set Two

Predilections - Richard Curtis (NY,NY) Directed by Wendy Greenwood

“Henrietta" - by Joseph Krawczyk (NY,NY) Directed by Wendy Greenwood

"Sisyphus and Icarus a Love story” by William Ivor Fowkes (NY,NY) Directed by Wendy Greenwood

“Great Negro Works of Art” by Neil LaBute, Directed by John Pierson

July 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27 at 8pm

July 7, 14, 21, 28 at 3pm

Low-down piano and vocal blues from the 1920s and 30s. Featuring Miss Jubilee (vocals) and Ethan Leinwand (piano).

For more information, contact John Barr at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

https://www.thefriscostl.com/music-events

Pickin’ On Music Festivals strives to bring the best regional and national touring Bluegrass, Folk, Roots and Americana artists to unique venues along Missouri’s scenic riverways. We have held events on the Courtois, Huzzah, Mississippi and Meramec rivers. Artist led workshops and all night campfire jams are a distinguishing feature of Pickin’ On events. We love giving our artists and attendees a memorable experience.

https://pickinfestival.com/

Saunders Schultz (1927-2017) was a prominent St. Louis artist and among the founders of the concept of Architectural / Environmental Sculpture. He was cofounder of Scopia Studio with fellow St. Louisan William Severson (1924 - 1999), and contributed to nearly 300 monumental works over his career; these diverse sculptures are found throughout St. Louis, in 37 states, and around the world. 

This focused exhibition presents examples of drawings, paintings and sculpture that illustrate Schultz’s affinity for nature as his primary inspiration. The drawings and paintings in this exhibition reveal the complex ways in which Schultz captured the shapes of leaves, trees, flowing water, and in some cases capturing the concept of rushing air. Despite their small size, these pieces still convey the grace, complexity, and monumentality of the site-specific works for which Schultz is known.

For more information, contact Brittney West at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

http://www.umsl.edu/mercantile/events-and-exhibitions/

Are you ready for the next step in becoming a changemaker in your own community? Would you like to learn how to apply permaculture to your own life and your community? 

Permaculture examines the interconnectedness of living systems on earth and how we can observe and interact with these systems in ways that increase the health and well being of all life on earth.

Crystal Stevens of Grow Create Inspire presents a 72-hour Permaculture Design Course. The course will run one weekend per month for 6 months. 

The cost is $950

Scholarships are available.

The course will cover:

Introduction to Permaculture

Permaculture Ethics and Principles

The Local Ecosystem, Design, The Home System, zones, and sector analysis, Water, Soil Science, Soil Building, and Soil Health, ecosystems, Food Forests and Cultivated Ecologies, Gardening and regenerative agriculture,

Land access, land grants, and community gardens. and more.

Each participant will create a Permaculture Design Project.

Attendance of all weekends is required for the certificate.

To register: email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

http://www.growcreateinspire.com

Ron E. Young

Lost & Found

June 21-August 19, 2019

Opening Reception: Friday, June 21, 2019

6 pm-8 pm

I scrounge the alleys, boarded-up buildings and vacant lots like an archeologist searching for buried treasure. The ghosts of a once thriving community have a story to tell before all memory of their existence is erased. My current studio practice involves assembling disparate elements, things that I scavenge and collect from the carnage that is now North St. Louis City. From these discarded materials I create my mixed-media assemblages. The materials I collect are from city streets and neighborhoods, a treasure trove of materials left behind for me to collect – wrought iron metal; rusty nuts, bolts, screws; ropes and chains; old broken tools; lots of wood, now burnt and rotten, that were once doors, window frames and decorative molding; and an abundance of bricks. I use these discarded objects to create art that tells a story about what we value and how we treat the people that once owned them.

For more information, contact Jeff Wunrow at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

https://parishgallerycwe.org/

The University City Summer Band, under the direction of Tom Poshak, will be playing its twenty-third season. The concerts begin at 7 PM, last about 80 minutes, and include a short intermission. Parking and access are easy. Seating is on the lawn. Bring a lawn chair or blanket as available bench seating is limited. Bring your children! Bring a picnic! A refreshment stand sponsored by various groups will be available.

The band’s repertoire includes marches, show tunes, jazz, original pieces for band, light classics, patriotic selections, popular music and transcriptions – we guarantee something for everyone from young children to senior citizens. Dine at one of the many restaurants in the University City and Loop area and then join us for a relaxing concert in the park.

For more information, contact Mark Thiel at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

http://www.ucsummerband.org

Returning again from North Carolina, this progressive bluegrass band is sure to please!

Outdoor event, bring lawn chairs, coolers, bug spray.

Suggested donation $12.00, 14 and under free

For more information, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

https://www.facebook.com/LabadieStationConcertSeries/

Enjoy “Southern Roadhouse Hospitality” while listening to the driving blues rock and funky R&B grooves of Odds Lane.

Hwy 61 Roadhouse is a Memphis and New Orleans dining experience right here in Webster Groves. Laissez le bon temps roulez, “Let the good times roll”

For more information, contact Coach S. at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

http://www.hwy61roadhouse.com

Encore! Theater Group proudly presents, Directed by Effrem Thomas Grettenberger, our first production of this riveting sequel to Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 drama A Raisin in the Sun, CLYBOURNE PARK

WARNING: CONTAINS ADULT LANGUAGE AND SITUATIONS!

In 2009 Bruce Norris wrote the response to the question, "What happened to the Youngers after leaving Chicago's south side?"

Clybourne Park is a political satire that lends the perspective of the White family who sold the Youngers their house in a less than welcoming neighborhood. In the second act, the audience will witness a fast-forward in time to a modern day conversation between the current homeowners (Younger descendants) and new hopeful White purchasers.

For more information, contact Alexa Seda at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/clybourne-park-tickets-63315546504

Four beautiful, badass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back the extremist insanity in 1793 Paris. This grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world. It’s a true story. Or total fiction. Or a play about a play. Or a raucous resurrection…that ends in a song and a scaffold.

Thu, 27 Jun 2019 8 PM

Fri, 28 Jun 2019 8 PM

Sat, 29 Jun 2019 8 PM

Sun, 30 Jun 2019 2 PM

Wed, 03 Jul 2019 8 PM

Fri, 05 Jul 2019 8 PM

Sat, 06 Jul 2019 8 PM

Sun, 07 Jul 2019 2 PM

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 8 PM

Fri, 12 Jul 2019 8 PM

Sat, 13 Jul 2019 8 PM

Sun, 14 Jul 2019 2 PM

For more information, contact Coach S. at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

https://insighttheatrecompany.com/shows/the-revolutionists-2019/

Union Avenue Opera presents Bernstein’s Candide (Scottish Opera Version)

Four Performances: July 5, 6, 12, 13 at 8:00 p.m.

Presented in English with English supertitles

War! Earthquakes! Disease! Very bad things happen to very good people (and plenty of bad ones too). When young Candide’s marriage proposal to a baron’s daughter doesn’t quite go as planned, this naïve student of optimism is thrust into an eye-opening odyssey across lands near and far, discovering the horrors of existence at every turn. Candide is part opera, part musical, and entirely irreverent. Voltaire’s philosophical spoof becomes a brilliant and breathless operetta set to a vivid score by Bernstein which abounds with spectacular music that includes a famous overture, the soprano showpiece “Glitter and Be Gay,” and the soaring finale, “Make our Garden Grow.” Through all its hysterical scouring of 18th-century wickedness and woe, Candide still finds a way to move and inspire with life-affirming lessons that, surprisingly, ring just as true today.

World-renowned opera legend, Christine Brewer, returns to the UAO stage in her role debut as The Old Lady in Candide. Schoonover will conduct while local director Annamaria Pileggi makes her UAO directorial debut. Jesse Darden and Brooklyn Snow make their UAO debuts as Candide and Cunegonde while Thomas Gunther returns as Voltaire/Pangloss following last year’s successful UAO debut as Captain Corcoran in H.M.S. Pinafore. Local actors Greg Johnston and Graham Emmons make their UAO stage debuts covering a variety of supporting characters. The chorus is composed of 16 of the area’s most talented emerging artists including Leann Schuering, Liya Khaimova, Anthony Heinemann, and Aleksandar Dragojevic. 

To purchase tickets, visit our website or call the box office at (314) 361-2881. General admission adult tickets: $35, Reserved adult tickets: $45.

For more information, contact Danielle Feinstein at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

https://unionavenueopera.org/2019-productions/candide/

St. Louis Actors’ Studio will produce the 7th “LaBute New Theater Festival". The Theater Festival will run at the Gaslight Theater, 358 North Boyle, home to St. Louis Actors’ Studio.

Professional and High School Submissions were accepted October through December 2018. To be considered entries had to have no more than four characters, and be crafted specifically to exploit our intimate performance space (18' x 18' stage). Changes in scenery or setting should be achievable in a few seconds and with few major set moves. Our focus is on fundamental dramaturgy: plot, character, theme.

Professional, new, previously unproduced one act play submissions (45 minutes or less) included a letter of inquiry, a synopsis and a 10-page sample from the script.

Four Winning plays by high school students will be presented in readings at 11 am on July 20 at the Gaslight Theater. Admission to the reading FREE.

Six plays were chosen: One group to be performed in the first two weeks of July, the final group in the second two weeks. “Great Negro Works of Art”, a Midwest Premiere from Mr. LaBute, will be performed every night for the run of the festival.

July 5-14, Set One

“Great Negro Works of Art” by Neil LaBute, Directed by John Pierson

“Color Timer” by Michael Long (Alexandria, VA), Directed by Jenny Smith

“Privilege" - by Joe Sutton (West Orange, NJ), Directed by Jenny Smitn

"Kim Jong Rosemary" by Carter W. Lewis (St. Louis, MO) Directed by John Pierson

July 19-28, Set Two

Predilections - Richard Curtis (NY,NY) Directed by Wendy Greenwood

“Henrietta" - by Joseph Krawczyk (NY,NY) Directed by Wendy Greenwood

"Sisyphus and Icarus a Love story” by William Ivor Fowkes (NY,NY) Directed by Wendy Greenwood

“Great Negro Works of Art” by Neil LaBute, Directed by John Pierson

July 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27 at 8pm

July 7, 14, 21, 28 at 3pm