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2010 Stories by Dennis Brown

• Their Favorite Things: Our two writers discuss the best in theater from 2010

  published December 30, 2010

  As another year draws to a close, our two intrepid theater reviewers get together to share thoughts, concerns and delights from the past twelve... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published December 23, 2010

  Ongoing Last of the Red Hot Mamas The notably uneventful rags-to-riches journey of brassy entertainer Sophie Tucker is... More >>

• Cleanup on the Bulk Aisle: Somebody overindulged at winter's theater buffet

  published December 23, 2010

  Last month a blizzard blew through town on Thanksgiving afternoon, leaving the city under a veneer of ice and snow when holiday travelers least... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published December 16, 2010

  Featured Review The Nutcracker Here's something different: a talking Nutcracker. Ever since Tchaikovsky set music to... More >>

• Featured Review: The Nutcracker

  published December 16, 2010

  Featured Review: The Nutcracker Here's something different: a talking Nutcracker. Ever since Tchaikovsky set music to E.T.A. Hoffmann's... More >>

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  St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published December 9, 2010

  Newly Reviewed Featured Review: As Bees in Honey Drown A meditation on the cult of celebrity and the perceived value of... More >>

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  Piano Bard: Cabaret crooner Steve Ross is the sultan of the Steinway

  published November 25, 2010

  It's a simple, clean form of entertainment. A man sits at a piano and sings. But when Steve Ross is at the keyboard, for an hour or so... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published November 18, 2010

  Newly Reviewed Cabaret In 1966, when it was first staged, who could have guessed that a musical about storms in the wind... More >>

• Doctor in the House: Neil Simon gets a shot of inspiration from a master of the short-story form

  published November 18, 2010

  In 1973, after having enjoyed a dozen years as the world's most commercially successful playwright, Neil Simon decided to try something... More >>

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  Actor Stacy Keach receives SLIFF's Lifetime Achievement Award

  published November 11, 2010

  In 1971 Stacy Keach was a hot young up-and-comer playing Jamie Tyrone in an off-Broadway staging of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published November 11, 2010

  Newly Reviewed More >>

• With Long Day's Journey into Night, Muddy Waters Theatre lives up to its name

  published November 11, 2010

  One can only imagine the sense of scandal that accompanied the 1956 Broadway premiere of Eugene O'Neill's magnum opus, Long Day's Journey... More >>

• Brief Encounters: West End Players Guild plays it short and sweet

  published November 11, 2010

  I don't know whether this is serendipity or mere accident, but the trim evening of four one-act plays at West End Players Guild is providing a... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published November 4, 2010

  Newly Reviewed a feminine ending Amanda (Rachel Hanks) is an uptight, frustrated jingle writer engaged to budding pop... More >>

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  Autumn Leave: Geoffrey Nauffts' Next Fall falls flat

  published November 4, 2010

  Geoffrey Nauffts' play, Next Fall, arrives at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis with an exquisite pedigree. Earlier this year it... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published October 27, 2010

  Also Reviewed The Chosen There is a deliberate sense of balance to Deanna Jent's staging of The Chosen, from the... More >>

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  Rob Ruggiero, director of the Rep's production of High, really gets around

  published October 27, 2010

  To phrase it in Seinfeld-ian parlance, director Rob Ruggiero is a comebacker. Among his extensive credits, the freelancer has staged... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published October 20, 2010

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  Altitude Sickness: The Rep, and director Rob Ruggiero, aren't quite up to High

  published October 20, 2010

  As the lights rise, a woman stands alone under a starry sky and begins to talk to the audience. Initially we don't realize the import of her... More >>

• Throwdown! Sophocles vs. Mamet: May the best playwright win!

  published October 13, 2010

  All homage to the gods of tragedy and comedy, for this week and next they are bestowing upon area theatergoers a remarkable primer on leadership... More >>

• Grant an Audience

  published October 6, 2010

  The Sphinx-like Ulysses S. Grant, a general who trusted his horses more than his fellow officers, was the unlikeliest hero of the American Civil... More >>

• Gnats Entertainment: Webster theater students have their way with The Insect Play

  published October 6, 2010

  Odd and wondrous things are occurring underground at the Loretto-Hilton Center, where The Insect Play, the 1922 political satire... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published September 22, 2010

  Newly Reviewed Master Class Reviewed in this issue. Ongoing Equus Why did Alan Strang take... More >>

• Stray Dog tears into Terrence McNally's captivating portrait of opera luminary Maria Callas

  published September 22, 2010

  She strides onto the stage without fanfare, expensively attired in a severe black pantsuit accessorized with a tastefully elegant scarf. "No... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published September 15, 2010

  Newly Reviewed Equus Why did Alan Strang take a spike and blind six horses? Peter Shaffer's mystery-drama about a boy's... More >>