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BABY tells the story in words and music of three couples on a university campus as they deal with the painful, rewarding and agonizingly funny consequences of this universal experience. There are the college students, barely at the beginning of their adult lives; the 30-somethings, having trouble conceiving but determined to try; and the middle aged parents, looking forward to seeing their last child graduate from college when a night of unexpected passion lands them back where they started. A Delightful Musical Comedy.
If American Anger manifested in the body, what would the symptoms be? Hallucinations of the American Dream? A trickle down economy in the back of the throat? A rash, a fever – a red, white and blueness? In this hysterical and frightening journey, Harry and his family fight the disease and ask themselves – What is my anger doing to me, and how can I do it to them?
Joanna McClelland Glass’s play centers on five couples in the Detroit neighborhood of Palmer Park following the race riots of 1967. Their integrated lives are threatened when the high performing neighborhood school is forced to accept children from an adjacent working-class neighborhood. Racial harmony and friendships are changed forever with very sad and very real consequences. History Museum-Co-Production with the Black Rep
Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize winning play about a girl named Li'l Bit who gets driving lessons (and a whole lot more she didn't bargain for) from her Uncle Peck, and how their relationship progresses from familial friendship to something darker. The comic drama is told in flashback by the now grown woman as we learn what she learned about exploitation, control and forgiveness.
It’s a hot summer evening in St. Louis - air-conditioners are blasting, TV’s are blaring, and tempers are as feverish as the weather. An electrical blackout and some cool water bring together an unlikely community in this musical re-telling of the Gospel of Matthew. This production focuses on the harmonies of the music accompanied by acoustic instruments.
Aaron Orion Baker is a native of Illinois and has called St. Louis home since December of 2005. He has a tendency to work with St. Louis Shakespeare, Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, St. Louis Actor's Studio, Muddy Waters, New Jewish Theatre and The Non-Prophets.
Kevin Kline Award Nominations
2011: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Play: Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Muddy Waters Theatre)
10 Questions:
1. What is your favorite theatrical memory?
A show called Language of Angels. In the first scene I was onstage alone in an almost pitch-black black-box theatre. In the midst of my monologue, I would flick my cigarette (because I was smoking) against the wall behind me. A punctuation of sorts. As simple as it was, I loved the effect, this minute explosion of embers in near-total darkness, like a microscopic fireworks display.
2. When did you know you were going in to the theatre?
I’m still looking into Egyptology, so I may not be in a position to give a definitive answer to this question…
3. What does St. Louis Theatre mean to you?
I came here for a girl, so the fact that there is as much theatre as there is means a whole damn lot.
4. What’s in your fridge right now?
Experiments. Specimens. Precious little.
5. What was the first car you drove?
A maroon 1982 Lincoln Continental with an 8-Track player. My friends parents donated their old 8-Tracks…Simon and Garfunkel, Cat Stevens, Miles Davis’s Bitches Brew…a block and a half to the gallon…
6. What’s the last book you read?
The Wind and the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.
7. What’s your favorite St. Louis restaurant?
It’s across the river in my native state of Illinois, but still close enough…J.Fire’s Market Bistro in Waterloo.
8. If you weren’t in the theatre, what would you be doing?
Prehistoric Justice Systems.
9. What is the most played song or artist on your iPod?
Tom Waits? Van Morrison? Bob Dylan? There’s probably an app to figure that out.
10. What is your guiltiest guilty pleasure?
Eating nachos in my underwear whilst feeling smug about the fact that I have never, even for an instant, had any interest in Civil War Re-enactment.
Reconnect with Mark Twain’s incomparable classic in a magical new production, perfect for the whole family. In idyllic 1840s Missouri, Tom and his friends revel in all that is grand and glorious in childhood. This mischievous rascal can charm his Aunt Polly, save the town from Injun Joe and win the heart of fair Becky Thatcher, all in the course of one small-town day.
Alfred 
An annual Holiday tradition in many cities, BLACK NATIVITY: A Holiday Celebration is a testament to the power and joy of the season. BLACK NATIVITY tells the story of the Nativity through a colorful montage of song, dance, poetry, and Scripture.
Nothing says the holidays like tropical weather and three paroled convicts! In this warm and witty tale set in French Guiana on Christmas Eve, a felonious triumvirate intervenes in the lives of an innocent family who is perched on the brink of financial ruin. Proficient in the illicit skills of theft, forgery, extortion and yes, even murder, these unlikely heroes arrive in timely fashion to remind us all of what is truly most important—confusing our long-standing moral convictions of what is right and wrong. An old fashioned and wonderfully crafted fable to take home for the holidays!
