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2011 Stories by Dennis Brown

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published February 10, 2011

  Distracted Reviewed in this issue. The Memory of Water Mothers and memories — good, bad and imaginary — are... More >>

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  The story of C.S. Lewis' fling with a younger woman fails to achieve lift-off

  published February 3, 2011

  Grief is in. Death is by no means taking a holiday from St. Louis stages. On the mournful heels of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published January 27, 2011

  Ongoing The Fall of Heaven Novelist Walter Mosley's first play takes us from Harlem to Heaven and nearly to Hell.... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published January 20, 2011

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• Over Dunne: Fontaine Syer rescues Joan Didion's awful Year of Magical Thinking

  published January 20, 2011

  Here, in brief, is what happened: On the evening of December 30, 2003, Joan Didion and her husband John Gregory Dunne, writers both, returned... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published January 13, 2011

  Newly Reviewed Cooking with Elisa Don't be misled by the innocuous title that suggests this story might concern a cable... More >>

• So Hue Me: Go see The Giver; it'll color your world

  published January 13, 2011

  Enter a world of sameness. A world without color, where clothes, furniture, even apples, are all gray. A world without choice: two children to... More >>

• Gimme Swelter: The Rep tempts fate with The Fall of Heaven

  published January 13, 2011

  For Tempest Landry, life in Harlem is made up of momentary pleasures: a wife, a mistress, enough cash in his pocket to pay for creature... More >>

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  Wait Till This Year: What 2011 might bring to St. Louis theater

  published January 6, 2011

  Last week theater reviewers Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold began a conversation about theater in St. Louis. This week the discourse... More >>