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2008 Stories by Dennis Brown

• Play It (Again), Sam

  published April 9, 2008

  Sam Shepard's The Late Henry Moss, a play that has died and been reborn as many times as its title character, is set in New... More >>

• You Say You Want a Revolución?

  published April 9, 2008

  An image of Fidel Castro looms at the far end of the stage, away from the action. His picture is barely lit; it never calls attention to... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published April 2, 2008

  Bluish A woman who grew up thinking she was Christian discovers that her long-deceased mother was Jewish. Overnight she realizes how... More >>

• Eire Apparent: A pair of Irish productions reign over soggy St. Louis

  published April 2, 2008

  It poured ferociously last week during the opening-night performances of two current productions that are both set in Ireland, a land known for... More >>

• Born to the Stage

  published March 26, 2008

  A lifetime of memories. Detroit, 1975: Lynn Redgrave is on tour, costarring with George Rose and John Lithgow in the wicked comedy My Fat... More >>

• Good Fitz: A bravura singing performance reedems a real (Jeffrey) Hatcher job in Ella

  published March 26, 2008

  The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis is concluding its mainstage season on a high note with Ella, a touring production themed... More >>

• Oh, Goy: Bluish is a dramedy that's not funny or romantic

  published March 26, 2008

  New Jewish Theatre is an undisputed success story. Over the past decade, artistic director Kathleen Sitzer has assembled a support staff... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published March 26, 2008

  Assassins Stephen Sondheim's most audacious musical (written in collaboration with John Weidham) is also one of his least-seen. The show... More >>

• Vow Factor: You'll chuckle, you'll wince at The Wedding Singer

  published March 19, 2008

  It's hard not to like a musical in which one of the key duets is sung while the shamefaced leading man is hiding in a Dumpster. "Come Out of the... More >>

• Hare & Now: Let the Rep Studio lead you down the Rabbit Hole

  published March 19, 2008

  David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole, the final offering in this season's Repertory Theatre of St. Louis Studio series, arrives... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published March 19, 2008

  Assassins Stephen Sondheim's most audacious musical (written in collaboration with John Weidham) is also one of his least-seen. The show... More >>

• Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene

  published March 12, 2008

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• Assassins fires a seldom-seen blast from the Sondheim canon

  published March 12, 2008

  The floor design is a large, circular firing-range target. From time to time as the misbegotten gunmen (and women) in the Stephen Sondheim-John... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published March 5, 2008

  Harvey Mary Chase's perennial mirthmaker about Elwood P. Dowd, the lovable drunk who spends his happiest hours in the company of an... More >>

• Good things come to those who wait through The Prisoner of Second Avenue

  published March 5, 2008

  Neil Simon still packs 'em in. A veritable mob scene ensued on opening night of the West End Players Guild staging of The Prisoner of Second... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published February 27, 2008

  Angels in America Part 1: Millennium Approaches To dismiss this Tony Kushner work as "that play about AIDS where no one dies of AIDS in... More >>

• (Net)Working Girl: HotCity makes The Scene. Should you?

  published February 27, 2008

  Theresa Rebeck's barbed comedy The Scene, which opens HotCity Theatre Company's season, takes some broad swings at the ostensibly... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published February 20, 2008

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• Avenue Q is a naughty Sesame Street parody. So that makes Dennis Oscar the Grouch!

  published February 20, 2008

  Everybody likes Avenue Q, the saucy puppet show that has been titillating Broadway theatergoers ever since it opened in 2003.... More >>

• Vieux Carre's a thrill for Williams buffs only

  published February 20, 2008

  When Tom Williams finally graduated from college at age 27, he escaped conservative St. Louis and set out to see the world. By the time he took up... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published February 13, 2008

  A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline After having performed the role nearly 3,000 times, it's no surprise that Gail Bliss enacts doomed... More >>

• Dennis hands down the verdict on the Rep's Twelve Angry Men

  published February 13, 2008

  When filled with a dozen jurors of assorted heights, weights and temper thresholds, the New York City jury room in Twelve Angry Men... More >>

• Orange Girls shed a lovely light on The Road to Mecca

  published February 13, 2008

  It's no accident that when Miss Helen, a sixtysomething widow who lives alone in a small town in the South African outback, first began to indulge... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published February 6, 2008

  Cherry Docs A Jewish legal-aid lawyer must defend a skinhead who has admitted to a brutal murder. As these two repeatedly meet in the... More >>

• The Kevin Kline Awards turn three — and the local theater landscape matures along with them

  published February 6, 2008

  The nominations for the third annual Kevin Kline Awards were announced two weeks ago. Beyond agreement or disagreement with specific... More >>