Email Author Paul Friswold

2007 Stories by Paul Friswold

• Grazie, Collinsville

  published September 19, 2007

  If you were asked to name American cities with a strong Italian heritage, would “Collinsville, Illinois” feature anywhere on that list?... More >>

• Acting Superior

  published September 19, 2007

  The music snob is easily identified by the air of smugness and the supercilious tones used when discussing bands you’ve never heard of and... More >>

• Park It

  published September 19, 2007

  Every year, you tell yourself this is the season you’ll actually go to the symphony. But do you ever follow through? No. But tonight’s... More >>

• Children of the Revolution

  published September 19, 2007

  Mark Danielewski’s latest novel comes with reading instructions; maybe not so much “instructions” as “advice” on... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published September 19, 2007

  Boesman and Lena Reviewed in this issue. Crazy for You For much of Act One, this lavish paean to the songs of George and... More >>

• Pair Down

  published September 19, 2007

  Boesman and Lena opens with a cacophony, followed by long minutes of silence. Out of the darkness and smoke, Boesman (Ron Himes) appears,... More >>

• Peep This

  published September 12, 2007

  The new group show at the Philip Slein Gallery (1319 Washington Avenue; 314-621-4634 or More >>

• What Lies Beneath

  published September 12, 2007

  Fans of legendary on-screen tough-guy Charles Bronson will no doubt fall in love with Alex Petrowsky’s vaguely Lego-man rendition of the... More >>

• Big-Screen Bible

  published September 12, 2007

  The Bible has served filmmakers as a source of inspiration -- for believers and non-believers alike -- since moving pictures came into being.... More >>

• Silence in Heaven

  published September 12, 2007

  Perhaps the most referenced art movie of all time, Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal has such a hold on pop-culture... More >>

• In Between Days

  published September 12, 2007

  Society is stratified along male/female lines -- there are acceptable boy colors and girl colors, games, words, clothing, you name it. But if... More >>

• The Aristocrats!

  published September 12, 2007

  In eighteenth-century London, the rich and famous were busy being rich and famous when scandal suddenly struck: Lord Petre snipped a lock of hair... More >>

• We Are Groundlings, All

  published Sep 12, 2007

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• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published September 12, 2007

  Fat Pig Reviewed in this issue. The History Boys Reviewed in this issue. Macbeth As if staging an... More >>

• Weigh Cool

  published September 12, 2007

  Neil LaBute's work — The Shape of Things, Bash, In the Company of Men — has a well-deserved reputation for being... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published September 5, 2007

  I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change An intrepid group of local producers is trying to make a long-run go of this sketch-y evening that... More >>

• Ready, Willing and Abell

  published September 5, 2007

  If you don’t like the weather, to whom do you complain? Not Ben Abell; the voice of weather in St. Louis (as far as we’re... More >>

• Stray Dog Finds Home

  published September 5, 2007

  This coming weekend, fully half a dozen local theater companies begin their new seasons. Stray Dog Theatre gets a jump on the weekend festivities... More >>

• The Boys Are Back

  published September 5, 2007

  Faced with the daunting task of passing the rigorous examinations necessary to achieve entry into Oxford, a group of English schoolboys receive... More >>

• Hate Buddies

  published September 5, 2007

  Reading Hate in the 1990s was a revelation; Peter Bagge’s chronicle of the not-always-lovable loser Buddy Bradley was the comic-book... More >>

• Lunch with Bill

  published September 5, 2007

  Readers of the Post-Dispatch are familiar with columnist Bill McClellan. His detractors claim that he only writes about lowlifes, or... More >>

• From Mustard Seed, Growth

  published September 5, 2007

  The Mustard Seed Theatre is a new company in town, and it starts its debut season with a staged reading of The As If Body Loop, Ken... More >>

• Kiszka Me Goodnight

  published September 5, 2007

  At night the dreams of kiszka return. Kiszka stacked like cordwood in the backyard, kiszka falling out of the pantry,... More >>

• Young and Crafty

  published August 29, 2007

  Every year, the Craft Alliance (6640 Delmar Boulevard, University City; 314-725-1177 or More >>

• Bird, Man!

  published August 29, 2007

  One of the most fantastic sounds in the audible realm is the anonymous raptor shriek used in every Hanna-Barbera adventure cartoon; it signaled... More >>