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Now Playing
- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
- I Do! I Do!
- Jacob and Jack
- The New Century
- Rounding Third
The Black Rep
April 11-May 13
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.
Dramatic License Productions
April 26-May 13
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.
The New Jewish Theatre
May 3-20
A door slamming back stage farce, Jacob and Jack brings together the worlds of contemporary and Yiddish theatre. Jack Shore, a well-known television personality, is appearing for one night only in a tribute to his grandfather, Jacob Shemerinsky, great star of the Yiddish Theater. Backstage in his dressing room, Jack confronts his challenges as an actor - and as a husband to his co-starring wife. Simultaneously, 75 years in the past, Jacob has problems of his own. Actors play their past and present roles in a dizzying display in this time-traveling farce that is a smart and classic marital farce ingeniously complicated by historical layering and dual role-playing. From its Yiddish roots to its long obsession with Hollywood, it is a beguiling comic love letter to the American theater, and a clever tribute to Yiddish Theatre and to vain glorious stage actors.
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Max & Louie Productions
May 10-20
With all the buzz surrounding the consequences of alternative lifestyles in the news today what better time to present Paul Rudnick’s The New Century. This provocative and outrageous comedy features a collection of hilarious characters dealing with issues within the LGBT community. The celebrated playwright, screen writer and New Yorker contributor, Paul Rudnick, explores themes of inclusion and tolerance in these heartfelt set of vignettes, providing evidence of just where our new century might be heading.The Details
HotCity Theatre
May 11-26
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.
Patton Chiles began her career in theater playing The Young Nun in a Missouri Repertory Theater production of Morning Star, a role for which she thankfully would no longer be considered. She moved to St. Louis and was immediately cast at the Theatre Project Company, a company that turned out a generation of wonderful theatre artists, many of whom are still working in St. Louis. Patton worked as an actress for many St. Louis companies, including the dearly departed TNT and the St. Louis Repertory Company. While working at the Muny Student Theatre Company, Patton became an accidental playwright. (They asked her what she thought would be an interesting play for children. She told them, and they asked her to write it.)
In 1991 she became Co-Artistic Director of a radio theatre company known as Holy Roman Repertory Theatre Company. The company was not Roman, Holy or a Repertory. It was a company that used theater to tell historical stories using only verbatim quotes for dialogue, surrounding that dialogue with the music from the time period. Patton and her Co-Artistic Director, Larry Roberson, transitioned the company from a radio company to an Equity theatre company, changing the name to Historyonics Theatre Company.
Having written well over fifty plays, in 2005 Patton began to work more with Cecilia Nadal’s company, Gitana Productions, whose mission is “Global healing through the Arts.” Patton is Adjunct Faculty at Washington University and St. Louis University, where she teaches Acting One, Public Speaking, Script Analysis, and Approaching the Arts. Students from both St. Louis University and Washington University have been involved with Gitana’s theatre productions.
Kevin Kline Award Nominations
2011: Outstanding New Play or Musical: Eye on the Sparrow: The World Within St. Louis (Gitana Productions)
2010: Outstanding New Play or Musical: My Heart is Always Shaking (Gitana Productions)
2009: Outstanding New Play or Musical: Complacency of Silence: Darfur (Gitana Productions)
2006: Outstanding New Play or Musical: Dancing on Air (Historyonics)
10 Questions:
1. What is your favorite theatrical memory?
As an actor or a director? There really are way too many favorite memories for me to have an actual favorite "favorite memory". My most memorable moment as an actor was when I first walked out on stage as Sister Mary in SISTER MARY IGNATIUS EXPLAINS IT ALL FOR YOU. The Archbishop at the time forbade St. Louis Catholics to see the show, so of course it was sold out!
2. When did you know you were going in to the theatre?
It was the first time I got a laugh on stage - I think my sophomore year in high school.
3. What does St. Louis Theatre mean to you?
The first thing that came into my head when reading this question was "Life's blood". I have lived in St. Louis longer than I have lived anywhere else - though I did not go to high school here. Amazingly and gratefully, I've made a living and raised two children working in St. Louis theatre. How lucky is that?
4. What’s in your fridge right now?
Soy milk. Soy sauce - Wheat Free. Tofu. Apples. Eggs. Bananas are on top of the fridge. Makes you want to come right over for dinner doesn't it?
5. What was the first car you drove?
A little powder blue Chevrolet something. A Covair I think?
6. What’s the last book you read?
Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristoff - should be required life reading.
7. What’s your favorite St. Louis restaurant?
Easy - Mai Lee.
8. If you weren’t in the theatre, what would you be doing?
I would be doing whatever the universe assigned me to do - it would involve people and storytelling somehow.
9. What is the most played song or artist on your iPod?
NPR. Talk radio all day every day, much to my children's irritation. I don't even have an iPod.
10. What is your guiltiest guilty pleasure?
I have no idea. I suppose I'll have to create one now.
Coming Soon
- Othello
- Insidious
- Ain't Misbehavin'
- Travels With My Aunt
- The Damask Cheek
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Bowling Epiphany--The Revival!
Shakespeare Festival St. Louis
May 23-June 17
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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The Black Rep
May 23-June 24
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.
Stages St. Louis
June 1-July 1
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.
Act Inc.
June 1-17
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
Act Inc.
June 8-24
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
June 12-17
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
OnSite Theatre
June 15-30
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.
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