11.03.2009 5:25 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"In the Heights" (Joan Marcus photo)
Daniel Cruz and Kristina Fernandez, two members of the cast of “In the Heights,” will teach choreography from the Broadway hit at master dance class on Friday, Nov. 13.
The hour-long class starts at 4:45 at the Stages St.…
10.27.2009 5:00 am
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…
10.20.2009 5:00 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Designer John Inchiostro's costume sketch for the dentist in "Little Shop of Horrors" at Stages St. Louis this summer
Yesterday my dentist and I had an interesting talk about the theater.
OK, he did most of the talking. I was hardly in…
10.15.2009 5:00 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Chrstianne Tisdale and Edward Juvier in "The Drowsy Chaperone" at Stages St. Louis. (Whiney Curtis photo)
“The Drowsy Chaperone,” the show-within-a-show that opened the 2009 season at Stages St. Louis, turned out to be the biggest hit in the theater’s history.…
08.31.2009 5:00 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Stages' Jack Lane
As they get ready to open ”Guys and Dolls,” Stages St. Louis artistic director Michael Hamilton and executive producer Jack Lane make plans for 2010 - a season that plays homespun charm off big-city sophistication.
Stages’ 24th season will open with “Big River” (May…
08.21.2009 5:00 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"The Drowsy Chaperone" at Stages, with (from left) David Schmittou, David Elder and Brian Ogilvie
“The Drowsy Chaperone,” the clever musical-within-a musical that just closed at Stages St. Louis, broke the company’s box office record, pulling in $560,000 in 38…
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08.17.2009 5:00 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The great opening dance in "West Side Story," performed in a tour at the Fox
If you’re like a lot of St. Louisans, you’re way more up on musical theater than your friends and relations in other cities are. We can thank…
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08.14.2009 5:00 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
David Schmittou in "The Drowsy Chaperone"
Can there be a better way for theater groups to raise money than by staging a show? Not to judge from Stages St. Louis’s fund-raiser on Monday night at Kirkwood’s Robert G. Reim Theatre. The company sang, danced and…
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05.08.2009 6:42 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Ben Nordstrom with his wife, Kristen, and their son, Sam
Maybe you’ve caught St. Louis actor Ben Nordstrom on the McDonald’s commercial where he gets hit with a Cardinals T-shirt? This summer he’s going to perform some more - but not at the ballpark. Nordstrom…
05.06.2009 4:58 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Members of the touring cast of “A Chorus Line,” the show opening May 12 at the Fox Theatre, will offer a master class for St. Louis dancers from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 14, at the Stages Performing Arts…