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The 30th Anniversary Production of the Classic from Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright August Wilson. In a 1927 Chicago recording studio, legendary blues singer Ma Rainey finally shows up to do her new album in the midst of battling musicians and tight-fisted producers. Hilarious. Heartbreaking.
From wedding night jitters, to raising a family, negotiating mid-life crises’, quarrels, separation, reconciliation and growing old together, witness the 50 year marriage of Michael and Agnes Snow from 1898 to 1948 in this heartwarming musical from the writers of The Fantastics. Directed by Ron Gibbs with musical direction by Justin Smolik and starring Pamela Reckamp and Kevin Kline Award winner, Jeffrey Pruett.
Don and Michael are two well-meaning dads eager to coach their sons’ Little League team to victory- as soon as they can agree on exactly what that means. Veteran coach Don wants the kids to win at all costs; newcomer Michael just wants them to have fun. Stuck together for an entire season, they struggle to resolve their differences and get their team to the championship. It’s both a comedic and scary look at raising kids in a world where winning is everything.
It is a wonderful thing to be a part of the St. Louis theatre community. When Richard & I moved to St. Louis 10 yrs ago, there were hardly any professional theatre companies. The growth that has now become St. Louis theatre is remarkable and it is has been my pleasure to make a contribution - however small.
Since moving to St. Louis, I have worked with Orange Girls, New Jewish Theatre, Hot City Theatre , Mustard Seed, and Shakespeare Festival St. Louis. I have been a member of award winning ensembles...namely Going to See the Elephant and Women’s Minyan.
Thanks St. Louis!
Kevin Kline Award Wins
2006: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play: Going to See the Elephant (The Orange Girls)
Kevin Kline Award Nominations
2008: Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Play: Women's Minyan (The New Jewish Theatre)
10 Questions:
1. What is your favorite theatrical memory?2. When did you know you were going in to the theatre?
After seeing Destry Rides Again, with Andy Griffith or Gypsy, with Ethel Merman. I can’t remember which one I saw first...they were both magical.
3. What does St. Louis Theatre mean to you?
Creativity, community, commitment and caliber
4. What’s in your fridge right now?
Tofu, veggies and beer for Richard.
5. What was the first car you drove?
1966 Gray Mustang (my dad’s).
6. What’s the last book you read?
I am currently reading The Age of American Unreason, written by Susan Jacoby. Before that, The Lost, A Search for Six of Six Million, by Daniel Mendelsohn.
7. What’s your favorite St. Louis restaurant?
For fresh, organic food, Local Harvest, on Morganford. But I love Bar Italia as well!
8. If you weren’t in the theatre, what would you be doing?
Jungian analyst.
9. What is the most played song or artist on your iPod?
All the music on my iPod supports a yoga/spiritual practice.
10. What is your guiltiest guilty pleasure?
Chocolate or coconut gelato!
Donna Weinsting is living her dream. As a little girl she always knew she wanted to be an actor, and now she has worked with most of the professional theatres in St. Louis. Performances are exciting and gratifying but the rehearsal process and feeling a production come together is equally thrilling. Theatre has provided personal satisfaction and a plethora of creative, talented friends for which she is eternally grateful. Donna has been nominated twice for a Kevin Kline Award for outstanding lead actress in a play, 'night, Mother for Stray Dog Theatre and From Door to Door for New Jewish Theatre. She was thrilled to actually receive the Kevin Kline for her performance in From Door to Door in 2006. Donna loves being in theatre but her crowning achievement is her long and lasting marriage to her high school sweetheart, Mike, and her 2 children and 5 grandchildren.
Kevin Kline Award Wins
2007: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play: From Door to Door (The New Jewish Theatre)
Kevin Kline Award Nominations
2009: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play: ‘night Mother (Stray Dog Theatre)
10 Questions:
1. What is your favorite theatrical memory?
Hands down it was winning my Kevin Kline Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play. I was flabbergasted and thrilled.
2. When did you know you were going in to the theatre?
I honestly don’t remember a time when I wanted to do anything else. It seemed inevitable.
3. What does St. Louis Theatre mean to you?
It is ever-expanding and ever-changing my life. It fills me with pride whenever I see one of our many wonderful performances.
4. What’s in your fridge right now?
What isn’t would be a better question. I always have something I can throw together in case a bus breaks down in front of the house.
5. What was the first car you drove?
Oh dear God! It was a 1957 black DeSoto and the breaks went out one day in rush hour traffic downtown.
6. What’s the last book you read?
Tick Tock by James Patterson.
7. What’s your favorite St. Louis restaurant?
Citizen Kane’s for steak and the OC for burgers and drinks.
8. If you weren’t in the theatre, what would you be doing?
Making everyone else’s life miserable because I would be miserable.
9. What is the most played song or artist on your iPod?
Right now it’s “The Music That Makes Me Dance” by Barbra Streisand because I’m learning it for a cabaret.
10. What is your guiltiest guilty pleasure?
Eating a Snickers bar while reading a new diet book.
OTHELLO is centered around four major characters: Othello, an African Moor, who is employed as a general in the Venetian army, Othello’s wife Desdemona, his lieutenant Cassio, and his trusted advisor Iago. Othello explores the themes of racism, love, jealousy and betrayal.
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Insatiable needs. Unspeakable deeds. Dawud and Kara live together; a committed couple, committed to getting beyond substance addiction, looking forward to their wedding. One morning Kara leaves for work. Dawud goes to a park and brings a man home – Insidious. And then Insidious won’t leave. A torrid dark, dark comedy of down low terrorism in the age of AIDS. Taboo twists and turns, a gripping scenario, a shattering climax.
Hearken back to the days of the Harlem Renaissance when Manhattan nightclubs like the Cotton Club and The Savoy Ballroom were filled with the effervescent and energetic sounds of swing. AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ captures this dazzling spirit of the 1930s with the playful “Keepin’ Out of Mischief Now”, the sultry “Honeysuckle Rose”, and the salty “’T Ain’t Nobody’s Biz-ness If I Do.” Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical, AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ is a gorgeous, joyous celebration of the music, life and times of the late, great Thomas “Fats” Waller.
Henry, the quintessential old bachelor—a bank clerk who raises dahlias—has his life turned upside down when he meets his Aunt Augusta at his mother’s cremation. She insists he join her as she travels through Eurpose and South America. The adventures, some romantic, some illegal, defy descripption
Poor Rhoda! In her late 20s, unmarried, and not a beauty, her wealthy British family fears for her future, as well they might in 1909. So they send her to the American branch of their family in the hope she will find a husband. Rhoda secretly loves her cousin, who fancies himself in love with an actress. How will this love triangle resolve?
St. Louis Actors’ Studio concludes its fifth season, themed Law and Order, with the Ken Kesey classic: "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest” McMurphy, a man with several assault convictions to his name, finds himself in jail once again. Rather than spend his time in jail, he convinces the guards that he's crazy enough to need psychiatric care and is sent to a hospital. He fits in frighteningly well, and his different point of view actually begins to cause some of the patients to progress. Nurse Ratched (Quinlan) becomes his personal cross to bear as his resistance to the hospital routine gets on her nerve
A night of bowling and theatre! Bowling Epiphany – The Revival! is the much-requested return of OnSite Theatre Company’s first ever production, in celebration of five years of bringing exciting site-specific theatre to St. Louis. Set in one of St. Louis’ last remaining Catholic Church bowling alleys, audience members actually get to bowl, drink and mingle while enjoying three smart and provocative plays that occur organically in the space.