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10.27.2009 5:00 am

Midcentury madness hits the stage

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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10.21.2009 5:00 am

Lipkin play wins honor

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joan Lipkin (Rachel Brandt photo)

Joan Lipkin (Rachel Brandt photo)

“The Date,” a play by Joan Lipkin, has been chosen for “The Best Short Plays: 2006-07,” an anthology to be published by Applause Books next year. Plays by Murray Schisgal, Neil LaBute, John Guare and Quincy Long are in…

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10.19.2009 5:00 am

Gaslight Theater presents comedy show

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Kevin McPeek

Kevin McPeek

Sleek and compact, the stylish little Gaslight Theater is mainly known as the home of the St. Louis Actors Studio. Other troupes have performed there, too. But from the time the theater opened, William Roth and the other SLAS founders…

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08.04.2009 3:43 pm

St. Louis Actors’ Studio looks at love and honor

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Julie Layton

Julie Layton

Actress Julie Layton will slam theater’s most celebrated door when she portrays Nora in the St. Louis Actors’ Studio production of “A Doll’s House.”

Written by Henrik Ibsen in 1879, “A Doll’s House” was a scandal in its own time. Today, it is…

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05.21.2009 4:34 pm

Where plays come from

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Playwright Jodi Rothe was in St. Louis for the debut of her sharp character drama, “Martha Mitchell Calling,” at the St. Louis Actors’ Studio. After the opening night performance - which the attractive blond writer attended in casual chic ensemble of denim and turquoise…

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04.02.2009 2:06 pm

SLAS writer wins award

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Kevin Byer, John Pierson and Alan David in "Back of the Throat"

Kevin Byer, John Pierson and Alan David in

Yussef El Guindi, the author of the drama currently playing at the St. Louis Actors’ Studio, has just won the 2009 M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award.

The American Theatre Critics Association presents the…

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