Stage Voice

BY: COLIN MURPHY – SENIOR WRITER

    The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning, August: Osage County makes its debut at the Fabulous Fox Theatre, March 2-14 and the buzz over Broadway's hottest play is palpable.

BY: COLIN MURPHY – SENIOR WRITER

The T-Birds and Pink Ladies will again "rule the school" as the gang from Rydell High returns to The Lou in the new Broadway production of the Tony Award nominated musical Grease, Jan. 12-24 at the Fab Fox.

BY: COLIN MURPHY – SENIOR WRITER

    Let’s face it—most of us of a certain age have a soft spot for the 1970s television series, Little House on the Prairie while many more grew up reading the classic American books of the same name by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

    So it should come as no surprise that continuing in the long tradition of musical theater drawing its inspiration from the four corners of the creative universe, that Little House on the Prairie, The Musical makes its debut at the Fabulous Fox Nov. 24-29.

BY: COLIN MURPHY - SENIOR WRITER

    The audience at the Metropolitan Community Church of Greater St. Louis (MCCGSL) was treated to a rare evening of entertainment as Michael Kearns returned to his hometown to perform his one-man-show, intimacies presented by That Uppity Theatre Company, Joan Lipkin, Artistic Director.

BY: ANDREA BRAUN - THEATRE ARTS CORRESPONDENT

    Citilites Theatre is back after a hiatus of several years, and its first production mostly succeeds. Originally produced off- and on-Broadway in 1994, Terrence McNally’s Love! Valour! Compassion! Was generally well-received in its day and even won the Tony Award for Best Play. But that was then and this is now.

BY: ANDREA BRAUN - THEATRE ARTS CORRESPONDENT

    In the first installment of this series on putting together a cabaret show, Chuck Lavazzi and I talked about the history of the form and he gave me an overview of the artistic goals and challenges of mounting such a performance. He is in the process of putting together his "Just a Song at Twilight" to be presented at the Kranzberg Center for the Arts Mar. 26 and 27. He will focus on music from the era of American Vaudeville, roughly end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

BY: COLIN MURPHY – SENIOR WRITER

    Actor, Director, Writer and Activist, Michael Kearns will return to his hometown of St. Louis to introduce his latest book and revive his ground-breaking, one-man-show, intimacies as a precursor to World AIDS Day, Nov. 20.

    The newly reworked production will be performed at 8p.m. at Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Saint Louis (1919 S. Broadway) and is produced by That Uppity Theatre Company, Joan Lipkin, Artistic Director.

BY: ANDREA BRAUN - THEATRE CORRESPONDENT

Oh fuuuuuuudge! I liked A Christmas Story. I didn’t plan to; in fact, I groused about the whole idea, don’t like the movie much, complained that the usually excellent Rep puts on a real turkey every year (and last year’s was the holiday show), blah, blah, blah.

BY: COLIN MURPHY – SENIOR WRITER

In the Heights, the winner of four 2008 Tony Awards and the 2008 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album is preparing to heat up the stage at the Fabulous Fox with its Gateway City debut, November 10-22.

BY: COLIN MURPHY – SENIOR WRITER

    What better way to inaugurate 2010 than with the perennial gay-favorite, Chicago which returns to the Fabulous Fox January 1-3. Currently celebrating 13-sizzling-years on the Great White Way the record shattering musical is now the seventh longest-running production in Broadway history.