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- Article tagged with: CB Adams
- There’s a line in the song “I Believe” in “Book of Mormon,” at the Fox Theatre that is buried in the barrage of “South Park”-style banter (no wonder since the music, lyrics and book are by Trey Parker, ...
- Created on 16 April 2024
- Article tagged with: CB Adams
- Here’s the best way to enjoy “MJ,” the jukebox musical (and enjoy it you should): allow this touring production to focus you on the accomplishments and legacy of Michael Jackson and transport you into ...
- Created on 30 May 2024
- Article tagged with: CB Adams
- Forget high school English class and “Macbeth.” “As you Like It” was the play that really opened up the genius of Shakespeare for me during my first college class on The Bard. And though it is considered ...
- Created on 04 June 2024
- Article tagged with: CB Adams
- The phrase “bring down the house” has a long history, dating back to the 18th century. It’s been used by theater critics and reviewers to describe a performance that deserves an enthusiastic accolade. ...
- Created on 01 July 2024
- Article tagged with: CB Adams
- What if Seth Rogen, Charles Dickens, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Cheech and Chong, Christopher Hitchens, Hunter S. Thompson, and John Waters decided to have a baby? If you placed their DNA in some sort of invitro ...
- Created on 05 December 2023
- Article tagged with: CB Adams
- St. Louis has a supply and demand problem. The supply of theater and music performances outstrips the ability for most of us to take full advantage. This makes we wish that the various arts organizations ...
- Created on 09 June 2023
- Article tagged with: CB Adams
- For its current production of “Steel Magnolias,” Stages St. Louis has assembled a finely tuned ensemble of six actors whose big mouths are matched only by their big hair and even bigger hearts as they ...
- Created on 07 June 2024
- Article tagged with: CB Adams
- When peering through a breach in the door to King Tut’s tomb, the British Egyptologist Howard Carter was asked if he could see anything. “Yes,” he exclaimed. “Wonderful things!” Like Carter, I peered ...
- Created on 14 June 2023
- Article tagged with: CB Adams
- Time is a precious commodity, so recommending a two-part, six-hour play is not something I take lightly. Why, you might ask, should you spend the better part of a day and some of your valuable entertainment ...
- Created on 30 April 2024
- Article tagged with: CB Adams
- There are at least three compelling reasons to see The Black Repertory Company’s production of August’s Wilson’s “King Hedley II”: rich character development, emotional depth and social relevance. Add ...
- Created on 27 June 2024
- Article tagged with: CB Adams
- The Guess Who gave us “American Woman.” The Doors gave us “L.A. Woman.” And now Joe Hanrahan and The Midnight Company bring it all back home with the world premiere of “St. Louis Woman,” a play with music ...
- Created on 09 October 2022
- Article tagged with: CB Adams
- The Rep’s “Twisted Melodies” is a transcendent theatrical experience with a St. Louis connection
- The easy way to recommend “Twisted Melodies,” the current production of Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, is to play the local angle. This compelling one-person play about the final day of the legendary ...
- Created on 10 October 2023
- Article tagged with: CB Adams
- When my children were young, back in the days of VHS, I endured countless hours of “Disney’s Aladdin” playing as the main feature (“Sit, Daddy, and watch with me!”) and as background noise while I performed ...
- Created on 05 January 2024
- Article tagged with: CB Adams
- Marianne Elliott's revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Company" is now on stage at the Fabulous Fox. Meet Bobbie, a vibrant New Yorker surrounded by friends navigating the highs and lows of modern love and ...
- Created on 02 March 2024
- Article tagged with: CB Adams
- "Moulin Rouge! The Musical" at the Fox offers spectacular escape filled with glitter, glamour and po
- “Moulin Rouge! The Musical” at the Fox is Paris via Vegas, Montmartre by way of Mardi Gras, “Cabaret” crossed with Carnivale, “La Boheme” slathered in “Lady Marmalade” and Baz Lurhmann busting a move with ...
- Created on 05 May 2024
- Article tagged with: CB Adams
- The plot of “The Play That Goes Wrong,” presented by the Clayton Community Theatre through April 14, is the type that would require more than half of this review to fully describe its convolutions. At ...
- Created on 06 April 2024
- Article tagged with: CB Adams
- The theater company Magic Smoking Monkey is not to be taken seriously. Sure, its founder, Donna Northcott, also founded St. Louis Shakespeare, which has some serious cred. Magic Smoking Monkey has been ...
- Created on 27 June 2024
- Article tagged with: CB Adams
- The timeless tale of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” unfolded anew, courtesy of Broadway at Stifel Theatre, presented by Fox Associates. January 9-10 marked the second time in a year that Aaron Sorkin’s ...
- Created on 11 January 2024
- Article tagged with: CB Adams
- The holiday zeitgeist feels different this year. Maybe it’s because we need some relief from the unrelenting news cycles filled with war, strife and discord. Or maybe we’re still emerging – chrysalis-like ...
- Created on 04 December 2023
- Article tagged with: CB Adams
- The poppy, exuberant experience of Opera Theatre of St. Louis’s production of Rossini's “The Barber of Seville” begins well before the opening notes of the overture. Fluttering above Andrew Boyce’s beachy-colored ...
- Created on 27 May 2024
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- Opera Theatre of St. Louis’ season opener of a reimagined-yet-respectful version of Scott Joplin’s “Treemonisha” by composer Damien Sneed and librettist Karen Chilton is a transformative experience that ...
- Created on 02 June 2023
- Article tagged with: CB Adams
- Opera Theatre of St. Louis’s new production of “Tosca” by stage director James Robinson delivers a voluptuous experience visually, vocally, orchestrally and theatrically. This Puccini opera tightly focuses ...
- Created on 02 June 2023
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- Part II of The Tesseract Theatre Company’s production of Matthew Lopez’s “The Inheritance” more than lived up to their goal of sparking “conversation by providing diverse theatre to the city of St. Louis.” ...
- Created on 07 May 2024
- Article tagged with: CB Adams
- Review: Alice Ripley and John McDaniel bring Broadway’s best female anthems to The Blue Strawberry
- There was no mistaking that Alice Ripley was in the room. On Friday May 24th, Ripley and St. Louis’ John McDaniel brought their cabaret collaboration to Blue Strawberry Showroom and Lounge for the first ...
- Created on 26 May 2024
- Article tagged with: CB Adams
- By CB Adams At the conclusion of “Suddenly Last Summer,” presented as part of the 8th Annual Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis, I was reminded of something the novelist Vladimir Nabokov said about ...
- Created on 13 September 2023
- Article tagged with: CB Adams
- If you’ve never heard of Eubie, as in Eubie Blake, (and shame on you if you haven’t) he was a popular pianist, composer, super-celebrity and songwriter whose works span the gamut of American popular music ...
- Created on 10 May 2023
- Article tagged with: CB Adams
- The Muny’s current production of “Fiddler On the Roof” restores the meaning and luster to the word timeless. In recent years, many classic musicals have been adapted or revised to better align their stories, ...
- Created on 23 July 2024
- Article tagged with: CB Adams
- What “Rocky Horror Picture Show” was to 50s-era science fiction double features, what “The Blues Brothers” was to traditional blues in the age of pre-programmed electronic disco, and what “Hamilton” was ...
- Created on 11 December 2023
- Article tagged with: CB Adams
- I’m going on the record and stating that even though my DVD of “It’s a Wonderful Life” sits in all its black-and-white glory in a box with all of my other favorite holiday classics, only to be viewed ...
- Created on 08 December 2023
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