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2008 Stories by Dennis Brown

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published July 16, 2008

  L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love) Union Avenue Opera brings Gaetano Donizetti's comic opera L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir... More >>

• A Muny Memoir: Ken Page returns to celebrate the Muny's 90th anniversary — and a new CD

  published July 9, 2008

  It's especially apt that St. Louis native Ken Page is one of the featured performers in next week's anniversary revue, 90 Years of Muny... More >>

• Biddy Signal: Muny goers be advised: My Fair Lady is showing her age

  published July 9, 2008

  Ninety minutes into this week's Muny staging of My Fair Lady — which is exactly midway, because the performance lasts three... More >>

• Dennis Doesn't Write the Headlines: RFT theater critic sets the record — and Shakespeare Festival St. Louis — straight.

  published July 2, 2008

  There seems to be a misapprehension circling around town that I have an agenda against Shakespeare Festival St. Louis (and that I write... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published June 25, 2008

  High Fidelity Scott Miller's New Line Theatre staging of the failed Broadway musical by Tom Kitt, Amanda Green and David Lindsay-Abaire... More >>

• Postwar Always Rings Twice: Act, Inc. resurrects a pair of bygone scripts

  published June 25, 2008

  After 55 minutes of mostly static discourse about the dullness of life in post-World War I England, magic happens late in Act One of A.A.... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published June 18, 2008

  Circus Flora Everybody's favorite larger-than-life emotions are available in abundance here, though there's no place in Circus Flora for... More >>

• Heil Muny!: With The Producers, the Muny scores a first-round knockout

  published June 18, 2008

  It's as if the past nine months never happened. The Muny has opened its 90th season exactly as it ended the 89th. Last year's closer, Les... More >>

• Wakeup Call: Set your alarm clock for Morning's at Seven

  published June 18, 2008

  Do you want to see a gorgeously constructed play? In Paul Osborn's 1939 comedy Morning's at Seven, currently being staged by... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published June 11, 2008

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• Under the Small Top: Circus Flora is in town — and that's always a good thing

  published June 11, 2008

  In search of an evening of thrills and chills, low comedy and high suspense? All those larger-than-life emotions that theater is supposed to... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published June 4, 2008

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• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published May 28, 2008

  The Tale of the Allergist's Wife The pretentious art museum-opening, foreign movie-going, existentialist novel-reading world of our... More >>

• Richard the Turd: Beware the company that dares to stage The Tragedy of King Richard III

  published May 28, 2008

  I have never seen an audience quit a show so readily. When, midway through the opening night performance of The Tragedy of King Richard... More >>

• I Laughed, I Sneezed: New Jewish drops the curtain on its black-box venue with a raucous but cruel guffaw

  published May 21, 2008

  When, in her pre-show remarks, New Jewish Theatre artistic director Kathleen Sitzer reminded viewers that The Tale of the Allergist's... More >>

• Not to Scale: Iguana play! Muddy Waters checks into the Costa Verde Hotel for The Night

  published May 21, 2008

  Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana is set in a ramshackle tourist hotel on the Mexican coast in 1940. A gallery of... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published May 14, 2008

  Harlem Duet A prequel to Shakespeare's Othello, Djanet Sears' Harlem Duet imagines the dissolution of Othello's (Kingsley... More >>

• Remains to Be Seen: Enough already with staging new stuff because it's new

  published May 14, 2008

  There is no more demanding job in the theater than running a company. And among an artistic director's many daunting chores, none is more... More >>

• Jersey Boys more than lives up to the hype

  published April 30, 2008

  So here's the situation: By the end of Act One of Jersey Boys, a veritable thunderclap that is currently rocking the Fox Theatre,... More >>

• Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle activates Dennis' delete key

  published April 30, 2008

  Playgoers who attend the current Hydeware production of Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle are getting two stories for... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published April 30, 2008

  The... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published April 23, 2008

  Kid-Simple As a precocious young scientist who invents a machine that detects sounds beyond the hearing of humans, Katie Consamus has a... More >>

• Jersey Boys writer Marshall Brickman is no career counselor— but he's a great interview

  published April 23, 2008

  Marshall Brickman should be an inspiration to everyone who has never been able to hold a job. Brickman is the ultimate freelancer: He has had... More >>

• St. Louis Theater Capsules

  published April 16, 2008

  The Concert A bronze statue of John Lennon in a Havana park becomes the symbol of rebellion in the U.S. premiere of Ulises... More >>

• Does a play about St. Louis' Bosnian community hit home?

  published April 16, 2008

  Avalon Theatre Company has found a temporary solution to one of the most pressing challenges facing all local theater groups: the need to... More >>