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2010 Stories by Dennis Brown

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published March 24, 2010

  Newly Reviewed Amelia Earhart "What happened, Amelia? What happened?" So asks a reporter who tries to unravel the fate of... More >>

• Mess for Success? The Rep futzes with The Fantasticks.

  published March 24, 2010

  You wonder how these things begin. Fifty years ago this spring, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt's The Fantasticks, a droll spoof of... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published March 17, 2010

  Newly Reviewed Crime and Punishment More >>

• Gutenberg! The Musical! looks good on paper — and in the flesh

  published March 17, 2010

  If you've ever wondered what occurs at a backer's audition for a Broadway musical, you're in luck. Two aspiring playwrights named Bud Simon and... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published March 10, 2010

  Newly Reviewed August: Osage County More >>

• August: Osage County at the Fox is must-see theater

  published March 10, 2010

  "You are monsters!" a daughter screams at her mother and sister after a stunning revelation has shattered any hope of escape from her... More >>

• The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds is negligible

  published March 10, 2010

  At the high school science fair that serves as the core of Paul Zindel's play The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published March 3, 2010

  Newly Reviewed The People's Violin More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published February 24, 2010

  The Diary of Anne Frank This account of the twenty-five months in which eight Jews hid from the Nazis in a cramped Amsterdam attic during... More >>

• Angelica Torn, the daughter of Rip Torn and Geraldine Page, forges her own stage path

  published February 24, 2010

  The most anticipated theater event next week is the arrival of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County.... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published February 17, 2010

  Newly Reviewed Based on a Totally True Story Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's play, whose title would suggest that this story is... More >>

• The Rep opts for a 1997 re-adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank. Oops!

  published February 17, 2010

  It is a tragic irony that an anonymous teenage girl, one of nameless millions who perished in German concentration camps during World War II, a... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published February 10, 2010

  The Double Bass An unnamed double-bass player in a major symphony orchestra leads us through a 75-minute master class in the ways of his... More >>

• A Good Cry: Dramatic License plays Steel Magnolias straight and true

  published February 10, 2010

  For more than two decades now, with countless productions staged around the globe and a high-grossing, star-studded movie adaptation, Robert... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published February 3, 2010

  The Double Bass Reviewed... More >>

• Top Pair: Upstream and Mustard Seed add up to a winning weekend of theater

  published February 3, 2010

  This week's two new theater offerings don't waste your time. At Upstream Theater's The Double Bass, we spend a brisk 75 minutes inside... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published January 27, 2010

  Newly Reviewed Interrupting Vanessa Vanessa's mom (Carol North) has invited Timmy Fibbins (Christine Brooks) over because... More >>

• It Girl: Sutton Foster is the face of Broadway musical theater

  published January 27, 2010

  Take a long look at Sutton Foster's face. Wholesome and guileless, it reflects none of the cynicism or meanness that bespeak our harsh... More >>

• By the Boards: Dennis Brown on St. Louis Theater January 21-24

  published Jan 21, 2010

  If Tennessee Williams had died in 1945, if he had never written A Streetcar Named Desire or Cat on a Hot Tin Roof or any of his other plays and screenplays and novels and poems and essays, he would st... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published January 20, 2010

  Newly Reviewed And It Shall Be Forgiven... In the playbill for this new drama that seeks to find immediacy in world... More >>

• By the Boards: Dennis Brown on St. Louis Theater January 14-18

  published Jan 14, 2010

  It may be that the best theater deal in town this weekend is also the least expensive. On Sunday afternoon, January 17, Upstream Theater is sponsoring a staged reading of the new David Hare piece Berl... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Caps

  published January 13, 2010

  Newly Reviewed The 39 Steps Reviewed in More >>

• For the Birds: The Rep's 39 Steps is a soufflé of a salute to Hitchcock — and so's this review

  published January 13, 2010

  In the 1935 thriller The 39 Steps, Richard Hannay is the quintessential Alfred Hitchcock movie victim: Hannay is the wrong man,... More >>