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Spectrum 2024 Offers a Mixed Bag of New Short Plays at the Chapel

2 years 8 months ago
Though you may not be familiar with the company, First Run Theatre has been supporting Midwest-based playwrights since its founding in 2002. In 2007 the company began producing the Spectrum festival of short plays, offering playwrights the opportunity to stage their works in progress and gather real-time feedback based on performer and audience response. Spectrum 2024 features seven new plays from six playwrights, directed by Melissa Balint Boyer and Rob Corbett and performed by an ensemble featuring Alex Alderson, Iris Clay, Ann Egenriether, Dorothy LaBounty, Justin Panacchia, Erica Perlow, Anna Rimar and Brad Slavik.
Tina Farmer

To You, I Go

2 years 8 months ago

To You, I Go (2023) is Jessica Page’s visual love letter to St. Louis. Although St. Louis is rarely romanticized, Page aims to showcase the softest purest side of her […]

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Rachel Huffman

Stephen Sondheim’s Company Gets a Gender-Shifting Update at the Fox

2 years 8 months ago
Tell me if you’ve heard this one: a single woman over 35 is more likely to be taken hostage than to get married. That often repeated claim comes to life in the lively, well-performed and gender-switched version of Stephen Sondheim’s beloved musical comedy Company. Currently playing at the Fabulous Fox Theatre after a Tony award-winning Broadway revival, fans of the original won’t want to miss the lively, inventively staged production.
Tina Farmer

Operation Food Search to renovate its HQ

2 years 8 months ago
Many St. Louis area families still find themselves in need of assistance in feeding respective families. Food pantries were overwhelmed during the pandemic and food scarcity remains a menace in many neighborhoods.
St. Louis American staff

U.S. Senate approves compensation for St. Louis nuclear waste exposures

2 years 8 months ago

The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted again in favor of legislation that would compensate those who developed cancer following exposure to World War II-era radioactive waste in St. Louis.  The legislation, sponsored by Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, extends the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, which is set to expire, and expands it to cover […]

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Allison Kite