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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.
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.
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!
