Set and lighting designer Michael Philippi, who worked at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis on 15 productions, died on a sidewalk in downtown Chicago on Tuesday. He was 58 years old.

He collapsed on his way to a technical rehearsal at the Goodman Theatre, where he…

Hunter Bell (left), Robert C. Torri and Kathi Gilmore in "Promises, Promises" at Stages St. Louis

“Promises, Promises” - the 1968 Burt Bacharach/Hal David musical based on “The Apartment,” Billy Wilder’s wry assessment of office mores in the “Mad Man” era…

Jim Poulos as Mozart in "Amadeus" at the Rep (Jerry Naunheim photo)

Jim Poulos, starring as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the Rep’s sumptuous new production of “Amadeus,” plunges into the role all the way up to his . . . wrists.

In…

Susan Gregg

Actors and directors, playwrights and designers, theater artists representing just about every discipline and every troupe in town packed the Loretto-Hilton Center on Monday for a memorial service for Susan Gregg, associate artistic director of the Repertory Theatre of St.…

Erika Rolfsrud with director Rob Ruggiero

“What’s the fastest and cheapest way to earn a medical degree? Get cast as a doctor on a TV show!” actress Erika Rolfsrud says.

Rolfsrud, who dazzled St. Louis audiences last season with her portrayal of shrewd…

When Steve Woolf, artistic director of the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, put “The Diary of Anne Frank” on the theater’s 2009-10 schedule, he pointed out that the Rep has never staged the haunting, fact-based story of a Jewish teenager who kept a…

Susan Gregg

A memorial service for Susan Gregg, associate artistic director of the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, will be held at 4 p.m. on Sept. 14 at the Loretto-Hilton Center for the Performing Arts, 130 Edgar Road.

Gregg, who died last month, directed…

The 2009-10 Studio Theatre series at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis - always provocative, and more important than ever with the suspension of the Rep’s Off-Ramp series in Midtown - was dealt a sad blow before it even opened with the death, earlier this week,…

Susan Gregg

Susan Gregg, who directed a moving production of “The Miracle Worker” last season at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, has died at her home in the Central West End. She was 65 years old.

The associate artistic director of the Rep,…

"The 39 Steps"

“The 39 Steps,” a Broadway hit based on Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 classic, will fill the January slot at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis.

A witty comedy with twist of thriller, “The 39 Steps” was adapted for the stage…