Email Author Paul Friswold

2007 Stories by Paul Friswold

• Big Screen St. Louis

  published July 18, 2007

  Cinephilia and homer-eroticism come together this week, as the seventh annual St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase fires up the projector Saturday... More >>

• Big Screen St. Louis

  published July 18, 2007

  Cinephilia and homer-eroticism come together this week, as the seventh annual St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase fires up the projector Saturday... More >>

• The Hunger Artists

  published July 18, 2007

  It’s a well-known fact in art circles that most artists feel they do their best work on empty stomachs. The whole “suffering for my... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published July 18, 2007

  An American Daughter This decade-old talkathon by Wendy Wasserstein plays out in the Georgetown home of a dedicated physician (Mary... More >>

• Lap Dance with the Devil

  published July 18, 2007

  There's a terrible moment of tremendous fear in the first five minutes of Say You Love Satan that you must force yourself to sit... More >>

• Cobain In Bloom

  published July 18, 2007

  Kurt Cobain has long since shuffled off this mortal coil, entering into the pantheon of Rock Legends immediately upon the discovery of his... More >>

• WWRJDDr

  published Jun 20, 2007

  Hail and well-met, boon companion. Welcome to the debut installment of What Would Ronnie James Dio Dor, an advice column for the fantasy-loving, dragon-hugging, role-playing-game-enjoying-metal heads ... More >>

• The Geddy Lee Chronicles, Episode I

  published Jun 20, 2007

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• The Apotheosis of America As Seen Through Cataracts of Blood

  published Jun 20, 2007

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• Stage Capsules

  published June 20, 2007

  Anything Goes Summer stock is alive and well in Rolla. An array of appealing young actors buoys Cole Porter's perennially popular shipboard... More >>

• Stage Capsules

  published June 13, 2007

  Anna Karenina Colin Graham's 56th world-premiere opera production was his last — the long-time artistic director of Opera Theatre of... More >>

• 2007 RFT Music Showcase

  published May 30, 2007

  My second day in St. Louis after moving here to become the RFT's music editor happened to coincide with the 2005 Music Awards presentation... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published May 16, 2007

  The Dance on Widow's Row Four widows seek to jump-start their love lives by throwing a party for the town's most eligible bachelors: It'd... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published May 2, 2007

  A Clockwork Orange This stage telling of Anthony Burgess' 1962 novella is enough to make you want to beat your groody in strack. As mounted... More >>

• Black Rep's Dance Is Fine Romance

  published May 2, 2007

  I am the worst possible audience for Samm-Art Williams' The Dance on Widow's Row. The play is a comedy about a quartet of... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published April 25, 2007

  A Clockwork Orange Reviewed in this issue. Baby with the... More >>

• Plan 9 Is A-1

  published April 25, 2007

  Get out the graph paper and the slide rule — this gets complicated. From the 1950s through the '70s, Ed Wood Jr. made movies on a shoestring... More >>

• Sweet Sor Juana

  published April 18, 2007

  House of Desires, the Washington University Performing Arts Department's spring production, opens with a silent bang: As a small... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published April 11, 2007

  Gem of the Ocean The Black Rep has assembled a heavyweight cast that's experienced in performing the plays of August Wilson, but not even... More >>

• Tuskegee Airman Lewis Lynch: An appreciation.

  published April 11, 2007

  On December 8, 1941, America entered World War II. Thousands of young men rushed to enlist and join the war effort — even blacks, who were... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published March 28, 2007

  Hamlet A Hamlet produced and directed by Jason Cannon, and starring Jason Cannon. Might this be the vanity theater production of all... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published March 21, 2007

  The Baltimore Waltz Paula Vogel's 80-minute assault on fear tells a surreal tale about a prim elementary school teacher (Michelle Hand) who... More >>

• Hamlet in Extremis

  published March 21, 2007

  As one of the great male roles in all of theater, Hamlet demands quite a bit from any actor who portrays him. Every production of Hamlet... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published March 14, 2007

  The Baltimore Waltz. Reviewed in this issue.. ... More >>

• Capsule Reviews

  published March 7, 2007

  Antony and Cleopatra Reviewed in this... More >>