Issues of race relations and unconditional friendship imbue this heartwarming, Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, which spans 25 years. “Driving Miss Daisy” is currently receiving a Broadway revival starring James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave. DLP’s production stars St. Louis veteran actress Sally Eaton as “Miss Daisy,” Actor’s Equity Association member, Dennis Lebby as “Hoke”, B. Weller as “Boolie” and is directed by Washington University Theatre’s Annamaria Pileggi.
Join The Rep to celebrate the girl groups who unmistakably left their mark on 60’s music and on many of our lives. Relive music’s golden era and an empowering time in history with “The Name Game,” “The Beat Goes On,” “Respect,” “Natural Woman,” “My Boyfriend’s Back,” “One Fine Day,” “To Sir With Love,” “It’s My Party,” “Proud Mary,”“Downtown” and many more! Through the hits of Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin, Tina Turner, Diana Ross and the Supremes, the Shirelles and others, six energetic women and one very hot band take you on a journey through the look, the sounds and the electricity of the times.
Elijah McCoy may be the greatest inventor you have never heard of. A prodigy since birth, his lifetime of study eventually led him to an invention that changed modern transportation forever, the self-lubricating steam engine. And that’s just one of the many inventions society can thank him for, as we’ll learn in this historical work making its U.S. Premiere. His personal and professional lives can be measured in equal parts triumph and tragedy as he struggles to make his way as an African-American inventor at the turn of the 19th century.
Celebrated playwright Kathryn Schultz Miller once again brings history to life in this gripping drama. View 1800s America through the eyes of youthful and determined Chosen One as his people are forced to abandon their homeland in the Smoky Mountains. With his wife, Snow Owl, and his father, Walking Bear, he fights valiantly to save his people, but is overcome time and again by the attractive empty promises of the new settlers. This dramatic tale of one man’s heartbreaking struggle to hold on to his Cherokee heritage is a fresh look at a painful chapter in American history.
A couple celebrating their twentieth wedding anniversary at their summer cottage are joined by their ne’er-do-well son and his new girlfriend, Annie, who is thrilled to discover that her boyfriend’s mother is one of her academic heroines. As the weekend unfolds, it becomes unclear whether Annie’s presence is a matter of fate, coincidence, or deliberate manipulation. The tension between the women leads to deep questions about the intertwined acts of love and that have brought them together. A St. Louis premiere!
A US premiere based on a Quechua oral drama, our production is a historical-folklorical tragical-comical reenactment of the death of the Inca emperor at the hands of the Spanish conquistadors. Members of local Latin band Son de America will be accompanying the hour-long show, playing traditional Andean music throughout the spectacle. Audiences can witness the grand tragedy, the collision of cultures, the end of an empire as part of our rustic pageant.