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2005 Stories by Dennis Brown

• Dear Old Daddy

  published December 28, 2005

  It's not unusual for an actor to change his name, but for an actor to restore his name is something else again. Yet that's precisely what Conrad... More >>

• Little Dickens

  published December 21, 2005

  Two exclamation points in one title surely sets up great expectations on the part of the viewer. But any excessive anticipation is more than... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published December 14, 2005

  All the Great Books (abridged) If your idea of a dream date is Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen or George Eliot, this literature-laced show will... More >>

• Great Expectations

  published December 14, 2005

  So how is it going? Thirteen months ago, when the Kevin Kline Awards were announced as the catalyst for the newly formed Professional Theatre... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published December 7, 2005

  All the Great Books (abridged) Reviewed in this issue. Fool for Love John... More >>

• Love for Sale

  published December 7, 2005

  Perhaps it's because we're into the Christmas season, but as Shylock chanted and keened his way through New Jewish Theatre's production of William... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published November 30, 2005

  This Is Our Youth Kenneth Lonergan's grim drama about low dealings among upper-crust teenagers in 1982 New York City includes the mandatory... More >>

• The Best Seats in the House

  published November 30, 2005

  Two weeks ago, on the afternoon of the opening night of Wicked, the cast arrived at the Fox Theatre for a sound-check rehearsal... More >>

• Put a Spell on You

  published November 23, 2005

  There's always room on Broadway for another smash-hit musical. But Wicked, which after more than two years in New York is... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published November 16, 2005

  The Fever and Man with a Shotgun Why do people want to hurt each other? The Fever, Wallace Shawn's oh-so-serious rumination... More >>

• The Old College Try

  published November 16, 2005

  University theater is on display this week with a vengeance. Here in St. Louis we have come to rely on area colleges to provide the kinds of... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published November 9, 2005

  Bug Arthropods run amok in a blowsy motel room on the outskirts of Oklahoma City — it's just that nobody really sees them. Tracy... More >>

• Cut!

  published November 2, 2005

  Playgoers who enjoy the adventure of being among the first to see a new show might want to attend Completely Hollywood (abridged),... More >>

• Bug in the Ointment

  published October 26, 2005

  The power of suggestion is at the very heart of Tracy Lett's dark dreamscape, Bug. So don't be surprised if, by evening's end,... More >>

• Juicy Fruit

  published October 19, 2005

  A new local theater company called Orange Girls focuses on drama by and about women. But with their inaugural offering, Going to See the... More >>

• Zero Affect

  published October 19, 2005

  Surfers spend their lives seeking the perfect wave; dieters pursue the Platonic ideal of fat-free mayonnaise. Lovers of musical theater aren't... More >>

• Unkind Cut

  published October 12, 2005

  So let's begin with the nude scene. The final moment of Act One in Hair, the self-proclaimed "love-rock musical" currently being... More >>

• Pay for Play

  published October 5, 2005

  When Rocco Landesman saw his very first Broadway show, he began to learn about the disparity between art and commerce. In 1964 as a junior at... More >>

• Farce As the Eye Can See

  published September 21, 2005

  Something remarkable happened at the opening-night performance of Carlo Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters. During Act One the... More >>

• A Gay Old Time

  published September 14, 2005

  Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a veritable Niagara Falls of a drama. As booze pours and dialogue cascades, as... More >>

• Pussy Galore

  published September 7, 2005

  For 50 years the Pulitzer Prize-winning Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which opens at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis this week, has been one of... More >>

• Will on Art Hill

  published August 31, 2005

  Since its debut in 2001, the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis has gone all-out to establish itself on the local arts scene. It garners reams of... More >>

• Tune Up

  published August 24, 2005

  The 2005 Muny season, which concluded last week, was a notable improvement over what St. Louis theatergoers have been seeing in Forest Park. Six... More >>

• Chilly Willy

  published August 17, 2005

  "A sad tale's best for winter," a young prince avers in The Winter's Tale. This St. Louis Shakespeare production is sad all right,... More >>

• Spare Me

  published August 10, 2005

  Mike Ervin's crowd-pleasing History of Bowling premiered in Chicago in 1999 and is often revived there. Perhaps St. Louis audiences... More >>