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2010 Stories by Dennis Brown

• Don Stephenson, an original Broadway cast member, steers Titanic to the Muny

  published June 30, 2010

  The last two times Don Stephenson visited St. Louis, he portrayed Leo Bloom, the timid half of the title team in The Producers. He was... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published June 23, 2010

  An Apology for the Course and Outcome of Certain Events Delivered by Doctor John Faustus on This His Final Evening Twenty-four years after... More >>

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  Muny's 92nd season opens with Beauty and the Beast

  published June 23, 2010

  Featured Review: Beauty and the Beast Five summers ago when the Muny opened its season with this celebrated Disney musical about... More >>

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  Nothing can derail Wicked at the Fab Fox

  published June 23, 2010

  There were high-flying surprises both onstage and off at the opening-night performance of the mega-hit Wicked last week at the... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published June 16, 2010

  Newly Reviewed More >>

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  Act Inc. roasts up a couple of old chestnuts

  published June 16, 2010

  Act Inc., a summer theater company that revels in nostalgia (not just for the old but also for the obscure), is presenting its annual double... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published June 9, 2010

  Newly Reviewed An Apology for the Course and Outcome of Certain Events Delivered by Doctor John Faustus on This His Final... More >>

• Circus Flora distills the three-ring medium to its one-ring essence

  published June 9, 2010

  When you see this year's edition of Circus Flora — and anyone who enjoys snap, crackle and pop theater won't miss it — pay... More >>

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  A fashion designer's operatic reimagining of A Little Night Music is all the rage

  published June 9, 2010

  No stage production this year has been more anticipated than the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis staging of the exquisite Stephen Sondheim-Hugh... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published June 2, 2010

  Newly Reviewed Eugene Onegin More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published May 26, 2010

  Eye on the Sparrow: The World Within St. Louis When it comes to how misleading titles can be, this offering from Gitana Productions is... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published May 19, 2010

  Newly Reviewed Art An expensive abstract painting, white lines on a white canvas, triggers all sorts of convolutions... More >>

• Could Be Worse: Does Mel Brooks' musical adaptation rain on Young Frankenstein's parade?

  published May 19, 2010

  Although Frederick Frankenstein, the brilliant young brain surgeon from New York, arrives in eerie Transylvania with almost no luggage,... More >>

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  St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published May 12, 2010

  Ongoing Shirley Valentine All the elements are in place for the perfect chick flick in this one-woman show by Willy... More >>

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  It's Art: Yasmina Reza's celebrated play has lost neither allure nor impact

  published May 12, 2010

  So there's this painting. Abstract. White lines on a four-by-five-foot white canvas, executed by a trendy artist named Antrios. (Since his name... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published May 5, 2010

  Newly Reviewed Shirley Valentine All the elements are in place for the perfect chick flick in this one-woman show by... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published April 28, 2010

  The Country Girl Frank (John Contini), a has-been actor leveled by years of drinking, is given a final shot at the brass ring by gifted... More >>

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  A Farce to Be Reckoned With: Mustard Seed Theatre positively nails Tartuffe

  published April 28, 2010

  Because Tartuffe, Molière's seventeenth-century travesty about deception, seduction and the perils of extremism, is one of... More >>

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  St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published April 21, 2010

  Newly Reviewed Grand Hotel – The Musical Although this 1989 stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning Best Picture of... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published April 14, 2010

  Also Reviewed A Doll's House More >>

• Ibsen Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: A Doll's House still resonates

  published April 14, 2010

  I never saw Ibsen before," an older viewer proclaimed loudly to no one in particular when the lights came up after the St. Louis Actors' Studio... More >>

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  Isle Be Darned: Upstream Theater gets stranded on Outlying Islands

  published April 14, 2010

  A remote, windswept island far from civilization could be a veritable Eden, or it could be a barren locale of hardship and isolation. It all... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published April 7, 2010

  Newly Reviewed The Fantasticks The world's longest-running musical should be a sure thing. All you have to do is keep... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published March 31, 2010

  The Fantasticks The world's longest-running musical should be a sure thing. All you have to do is keep this sublime parable about lost... More >>

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  Five Guys Named Moe by the Black Rep

  published March 31, 2010

  Five Guys Named Moe As the show begins, our lovesick hero (Anthony Tarvin Jr.) sits beside a radio tuned to a station "for night owls... More >>