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2007 Stories by Dennis Brown

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published December 26, 2007

  Kiss Me, Kate This farcical account of flaring egos during an out-of-town tryout of The Taming of the Shrew is being given... More >>

• The Show Goes On

  published December 26, 2007

  For the past two years this column page has featured a mid-December progress report on the Professional Theatre Awards Council, which... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published December 19, 2007

  Greetings! In keeping with the nostalgia of the holiday season, St. Louis Actors' Studio summons up fond memories of the long-gone... More >>

• Flying Nun

  published December 19, 2007

  Every actor must find his own way into a role. It might be a telling line of dialogue or a putty nose. For Nonie Newton-Breen, who's currently... More >>

• Wicked Good — or Wicked Better?

  published December 19, 2007

  Wicked's dazzling success makes it wonderfully review-proof. Anyone who waits for the reviews before deciding whether to see the... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published December 12, 2007

  Greetings! Reviewed in this... More >>

• Winter of Our Discontent

  published December 12, 2007

  You say it's only mid-December and already you're sugarplum fairied out? You've taken to stealing bells from Salvation Army volunteers just to... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published December 5, 2007

  The Bomb-itty of Errors The Bomb-itty of Errors is neither a cultural statement on the importance of rap nor a sociological... More >>

• Buss Stop

  published December 5, 2007

  How exciting it must have been to see Kiss Me, Kate, the theater-smitten musical that's currently on view at the Repertory... More >>

• You Had to Be There

  published December 5, 2007

  The time is 1939 — and the 1980s. The place: Hamburg, Germany — and Manchester, England. Kindertransport, a harrowing... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published November 28, 2007

  The Bomb-itty of Errors The Bomb-itty of Errors is neither a cultural statement on the importance of rap nor a sociological... More >>

• She's Back (in Black)!

  published November 28, 2007

  Let us be merry: The prodigal nun has returned. Six years ago the one-woman interactive entertainment Late Nite Catechism set up house on... More >>

• Paint It Black

  published November 21, 2007

  A well-tailored African-American man saunters onto the stage. He gazes at the audience, then says, "Put yourself in my place." Sterling North, a... More >>

• Seldom Scene

  published November 14, 2007

  For a play that is so rarely seen, William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure carries a lot of baggage. No one quite knows what to... More >>

• Ice Queen

  published November 14, 2007

  Much thought, care and expertise has been expended on the current Saint Louis University staging of Henrik Ibsen's groundbreaking 1890 drama... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published November 7, 2007

  And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little Reviewed in this issue. The Clean House A description of the plot, which concerns two... More >>

• Mirth Maker

  published November 7, 2007

  For many a Broadway musical today, spectacle is the name of the game. But the ambitions of The Drowsy Chaperone, which continues... More >>

• The Misfits

  published November 7, 2007

  It's easy to get irked when a theater company revisits a venerable three-act play, then takes a wrecking ball to its structure by eliminating... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published October 31, 2007

  Bad Dates A one-woman show about a shallow, materialistic restaurateur in search of the perfect man, Theresa Rebeck's Bad Dates... More >>

• Dust Buster

  published October 31, 2007

  Late in Act One, a female physician and her maid watch as the doctor's husband ardently kisses an older woman. Who are they? the young maid... More >>

• Better than Even Stevens

  published October 24, 2007

  Premier cabaret stylist Steve Ross is no stranger to St. Louis. But the truly ´smarvelous thing about the incomparable Ross is that... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published October 24, 2007

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• Seesaw for Yourself

  published October 24, 2007

  If you're going to start a new theater company, one of your most important decisions is also one of the earliest: the choice of your inaugural... More >>

• Stage Right

  published October 17, 2007

  Talk about turning the world upside down. Imagine the confusion that ensued in Restoration London when King Charles II decreed that at long last... More >>

• Simon Serious

  published October 17, 2007

  For much of his prolific career, Neil Simon was the Rodney Dangerfield of dramatists. He didn't "get no respect" from the critics, who are often... More >>