Email Author Paul Friswold

2011 Stories by Paul Friswold

• Circle Gets the Squares

  published October 20, 2011

  One night a week, five distinct individuals in this small Vermont town come together to bare their souls to one another. No, it's not a group... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published November 17, 2011

  Newly Reviewed More >>

• Good to the Last Chop: A musical about a man-eating idiot in love with a horse? Tasty!

  published November 17, 2011

  Every theater production is someone's labor of love. The amount of work required to mount any show means dozens of people forgo regular sleep,... More >>

• Something's Coming

  published October 27, 2011

  You'd expect great things from a collaboration between Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and William Shakespeare, and West Side Story,... More >>

• Where Love Lives

  published November 3, 2011

  Next to heroically-exploding robots, Hollywood's favorite story to tell is that of "love at first sight." The staple of chick flicks and rom-coms,... More >>

• Civil War

  published October 6, 2011

  Alan and his wife Annette are meeting Michael and Veronica under slightly-awkward circumstances; their son hit Michael and Veronica's son in the... More >>

• Bat Boy, We Hardly Knew Ye

  published October 20, 2011

  Back in the early '90s, America was rocked to its collective core by the discovery of Bat Boy, a half-human/half-bat hybrid found in a West... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published November 10, 2011

  Newly Reviewed More >>

• Equal Plights: Palmer Park centers on the tipping point of integration in the 1960s, but it's all about the 99 percent

  published November 10, 2011

  Again and again during Palmer Park, numbers inform the decisions of the characters. Detroit has lost 250,000 residents in the... More >>

• The Party's Never Over

  published October 20, 2011

  Billy Benner's dark comedy, Speak Easy, drops you into a day in the life of Barney Monroe, a South City guy who hasn't left his... More >>

• I Saw The Best Minds of My Generation Dressed as Zombies

  published October 20, 2011

  Once popularly viewed as a children's holiday, Halloween has become America's primary excuse for women to dress up like their father's worst... More >>

• Big Fun

  published October 6, 2011

  Tracy Turnblad just wants to dance on "The Corny Collins Show," which is only Baltimore's hottest teen dance program. Problems arise because... More >>

• An Unscary Good Time

  published October 13, 2011

  Halloween can get a little adult in nature, what with the popularity of gore and the increasingly sexy costumes. If you have younger goblins... More >>

• Debbie Does Dallas -- Again

  published October 6, 2011

  You saw it in August at the Regional Arts Commission, now see it again (or for the first time) at the Jumpin' Jupiter as NonProphet Theater... More >>

• Break a Leg: Gruesome Playground Injuries (and how to avoid them)

  published November 3, 2011

  Rajiv Joseph's Gruesome Playground Injuries, currently on offer from R-S Theatrics at Crestwood ArtSpace, charts the intertwined lives... More >>

• Hell Is Other Actors: Sad to say, the Rep Studio's Circle Mirror Transformation has no exit

  published November 3, 2011

  Hey, who wants to watch five stereotypical white people play amateur psychiatrist to each other under the guise of a creative dramatics class... More >>

• Passing Through History

  published October 13, 2011

  Inspired by the gossipy The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis — a sort of Hollywood Babylon of St. Louis' prominent black... More >>

• Marriage Problems

  published September 29, 2011

  Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca turned to writing plays in part because he believed that "theatre is poetry that rises from the book and... More >>

• Damaging Footage

  published September 1, 2011

  Amy Granat creates experimental films on 16mm stock that is then transferred to DVD, which better allows the viewer to experience just how she... More >>

• Multi-Story House

  published October 6, 2011

  Isabel Allende's debut novel The House of The Spirits wove her own family history and that of her homeland, Chile, into a sweeping,... More >>

• Multi-Story House

  published October 6, 2011

  Isabel Allende's debut novel The House of The Spirits wove her own family history and that of her homeland, Chile, into a sweeping,... More >>

• Jumpin' Jack Flashback

  published October 6, 2011

  One can debate whether the Rolling Stones really do deserve their (self-anointed) title of "world's greatest rock band," but one can't dispute... More >>

• The Way We Were?

  published August 18, 2011

  Our memories are our strongest connection to the past, but they're oddly unreliable; or rather, we somehow make a decision about what to remember... More >>

• Strange Days

  published September 15, 2011

  A young black man-- let's call him Youth -- grows up in the stable and strong South Central Los Angeles neighborhood during the '70s, with his... More >>

• Get Blaked

  published September 22, 2011

  William Blake was a visionary artist in every possible sense of the word. A poet consumed by matters of mystical and spiritual growth, a... More >>