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A sharply funny new play by emerging playwright Annie Baker, Circle Mirror Transformation follows five people through a summer of “creative drama” in their small town’s adult acting class. Led by their bohemian acting coach, the five experiment with harmless theatre games that unexpectedly lead to poignant discoveries about themselves and each other. At turns surprisingly funny and subtly insightful, this revealing play reminds us why theatre is the most human of all arts.
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.PTAC is now PTC. The Professional Theatre Awards Council has changed its name to the Professional Theatre Council of St. Louis. This change is not so much to deemphasize the Kevin Kline Awards, which are still the primary catalyst of PTC's mission to promote and celebrate excellence in St. Louis Professional Theatre, but rather to emphasize PTC's reinvigorated commitment to expanding its programming and services.
The most obvious example of new and improved service is this new website, developed in conjunction with Graphic Panacea and featuring content supplied by PTC's constituent theatres. This website will become a one-stop-shop for St. Louis theatre-goers who want to know more about the vast array of theatrical productions available to them. Every theatre company has its own devoted page, with links to websites, contact info, and maps, as well as a history of the theatre and some representative production photos. And every production mounted by these theatres will be featured in the Coming Soon and Now Playing modules, as well be featured on its own designated page, complete with dates, times, tickets, box office info, and show description.
Along with a new name and a new website, PTC has unveiled a new logo. Working with designer and Kevin Kline Award nominee Travis Estes, PTC developed this new logo based on local sculptor Jesse Vonk's now iconic trophy design. The K-shaped curtain--such an intrinsic part of PTC's history and the Kevin Kline Awards ceremonies--is paired with a timeless, glamourous font to evoke the sense of excellence, excitement, and quite frankly fun that PTC hopes to impart to theatre-goers across the area. Wherever a patron sees the new Kevin Kline Awards logo, a good night of theatre awaits.
Keep checking back at KevinKlineAwards.org, not only to keep track of the myriad shows running right here in St. Louis, but also to participate in PTC's plans to expand our programming and services, always with an eye on getting the word out to theatre-goers-to-be.
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.
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!
