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2006 Stories by Dennis Brown

• If You Believe the Pen's Mightier

  published March 8, 2006

  Talk about fifteen minutes of fame. The tenth annual WiseWrite Festival of One-Act Plays treats its fifth-grade authors with a respect... More >>

• Safe and Sorry

  published December 20, 2006

  The much-heralded, much-promoted Off-Ramp series — a new satellite program wherein the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis presents... More >>

• The Second Time Around

  published December 13, 2006

  Exactly one year ago this week, as the 2005 theater season was winding down and judging was wrapping up on the first crop of Kevin Kline Awards... More >>

• From Russia with Zilch

  published December 6, 2006

  This is the year for theater anniversaries. The Rep is 40; Stages is 20; now New Jewish Theatre has begun its tenth season. What an impressive... More >>

• Mix Masters

  published November 29, 2006

  There's a wise adage that if a play or movie moves you, it's because "the mix worked." The Webster University Conservatory has found the right mix... More >>

• Come to the Cabaret

  published November 29, 2006

  Jessica Molaskey speaks from experience when she suggests, "You never know when someone is going to come by and start you on the right road." For... More >>

• Good to the Last Drip

  published November 22, 2006

  Let's not piss away any space beating around the bush. Instead, a loud declamation: The bar has been raised for locally produced musicals. From... More >>

• Hot Tickets

  published November 15, 2006

  It's fun to be first. In recent years St. Louis has been among the first cities in the nation to host in-demand national companies of such... More >>

• Something Wicked This Way Comes

  published November 8, 2006

  Last November Wicked was St. Louis' must-see musical. This month the Fox is hosting another wicked hit. Monty Python's... More >>

• Uncommon Knowledge

  published November 1, 2006

  Most people celebrate anniversaries with a party, or at least a cake. The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis has done something much more... More >>

• Boy Trouble

  published October 25, 2006

  Paul Mason Barnes is not only a director of confidence and authority, he even writes intelligent Director's Notes. Anyone attending the current... More >>

• Everything On

  published October 18, 2006

  Perhaps there is something funny going on," one of the harried characters suggests in Nothing On, the imaginary British sex farce that is... More >>

• Skid Rodent

  published October 18, 2006

  In 1937 John Steinbeck published Of Mice and Men, a short novel about two California drifters with small prospects and big dreams.... More >>

• Women on the Verge

  published October 11, 2006

  Rona Munro's Bold Girls is true to its title. Although the play is set in bombed-out, war-torn, enemy-occupied West Belfast in... More >>

• Aged to Perfection

  published October 11, 2006

  Forget that Molière's black comedy Tartuffe deals with serious themes like deception and seduction. From the moment the... More >>

• Nap Time

  published October 4, 2006

  Martin McDonagh is hot. Six months ago he won an Academy Award for his first short film, Six Shooter. Three months ago Broadway productions... More >>

• Trial by Fryer

  published September 13, 2006

  Mark Twain liked to say that it's a terrible death to be talked to death. That's not an immediate problem in The Last Days of Judas... More >>

• Bumpy Ride

  published September 13, 2006

  It was when the French chanteuses appeared onstage late in Act One that Ace lost it completely. Up till then much of the evening had... More >>

• A Star Is Bored

  published September 6, 2006

  Not since an unexpected angel crashed through the ceiling in Angels in America has there been such a felicitous celestial arrival as the... More >>

• Those Were the Days

  published August 30, 2006

  This summer it was back to business-as-usual at the Muny. After a solid 2005 season in which six of the seven shows ranged from good to... More >>

• Summer Stock

  published August 23, 2006

  Everybody needs a vacation. And if you can get paid while vacationing, all the better. That's why actors line up to work at summer theaters in... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published August 16, 2006

  Reviewed in this issue Grease There was a time when this sassy musical send-up of... More >>

• Simple Twist of Fate

  published August 16, 2006

  We all know the adage about the glass being half-empty or half-full. If the current St. Louis Shakespeare staging of Much Ado... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published August 9, 2006

  Grease There was a time when this sassy musical send-up of the 1950s told a simple, even moralistic, tale about the kids at Rydell High.... More >>

• Same Time Next Year

  published August 9, 2006

  Looking for a consistent closer? Jason Isringhausen doesn't have a lock on that job. This summer and last, the Muny has closed out its season with... More >>