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2011 Stories by Paul Friswold

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published August 4, 2011

  Newly Reviewed Seven Brides for Seven Brothers "How do you like it?" the man in front of me asked his neighbor at... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published July 28, 2011

  Featured Reviews Little Shop of Horrors "Feed me!" an insatiably bloodthirsty plant demands...and demands...and demands.... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published July 21, 2011

  The Crumple Zone and Songs from an Unmade Bed Both Buddy Thomas' The Crumple Zone and Mark Campbell's Songs from an... More >>

• St. Louis Shakespeare embraces the long hot summer with The Merry Wives of Windsor

  published July 21, 2011

  Sir John Falstaff is a character so comically grandiose that William Shakespeare wrote an anachronistic sitcom in order to give the dude... More >>

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  Boy Trouble: Citilites offers theatergoers a gay old time and (unfortunately) then some

  published July 14, 2011

  Citilites Theatre pairing Buddy Thomas' gay romantic comedy The Crumple Zone with Mark Campbell's song cycle Songs From an Unmade... More >>

• How Low Can You Go?

  published June 30, 2011

  It is a quiet night at the neighborhood tavern -- but they've all been pretty quiet of late. Denise Savage, an intelligent, thirty something woman... More >>

• Worse than the Friend Zone

  published June 30, 2011

  Terry is your typical high-strung, out-of-work and out gay NYC actor, but with roommate problems. Rather, he has a problem with his roommate's... More >>

• Flip The Birds

  published June 30, 2011

  Everybody in creation enjoys a bout of Angry Birds, the addictive video game that allows you to launch disgruntled avians at ramshackle structures... More >>

• A Most Sanguine Princess

  published June 30, 2011

  Giacomo Puccini's Turandot is a true fairy-tale opera, in that it's steeped in blood and cruelty and yet still tinged by love. The... More >>

• Sing Your Life

  published June 30, 2011

  There's a lonely gay man out there in the naked city, and tonight he contemplates what the police will think if they find his dead body -- judging... More >>

• Skyward in Triumph

  published June 30, 2011

  Astronomy is not just Blue Oyster Cult's greatest song, it's also an excellent gateway science. Merely looking at the night sky through an... More >>

• What’s Fair Is Fair

  published June 23, 2011

  As Americans, we have the right to say what we please. Unfortunately, we exercise that right by griping about people with whom we disagree more... More >>

• Havin' A Ball

  published June 23, 2011

  You wouldn't think a shiny metal ball would be scary, unless you've seen Don Coscarelli's Phantasm. The late-'70s horror film is... More >>

• Odds and Ends

  published June 23, 2011

  Sometimes Tom Stockman develops a theme for his Super-8 Movie Madness screenings, and sometimes he doesn't. This month's installment has no... More >>

• Watch It Wiggle

  published June 16, 2011

  When it comes to hoof-based dessert confections, Jell-O stands alone — that's because nobody in their right mind wants to eat the shimmying... More >>

• Spreading the Disease

  published June 16, 2011

  Fangs, Romulans, Count Choculas, lend me your ears: Contamination 2011 is upon us. St. Louis'; horror, sci-fi and pop-culture convention... More >>

• The Lumpy Lothario

  published June 16, 2011

  Sir John Falstaff — noble knight, serious trencherman and extra-plush lover — wanders into Windsor in need of cash. He sets to work... More >>

• If He Only Had Lou's Brain

  published June 16, 2011

  We're living in the age of the cinematic remake and/or reboot, which is total baloney. Back in the old days, filmmakers attempted to make... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published June 23, 2011

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• A Fine Finnish

  published June 16, 2011

  When Touko Laaksonen was a young man, homosexuals had no public image because homosexuality was not discussed in the 1930s. That didn’t stop... More >>

• Be Your Own Hero

  published June 9, 2011

  Peter Pranschke works with humble materials — ballpoint pen, colored pencil — to create work that reflects a thinly fictionalized... More >>

• Outside, The City

  published June 9, 2011

  Robert Boettcher was homeless, until he was given a digital camera by Inside Dharma, a humanitarian Buddhist organization that provides services... More >>

• The Marrying Kind

  published June 9, 2011

  When old Don Pasquale decides to teach a lesson, it's a ruthless one. His nephew and heir, Ernesto, is adamant about marrying the widow Norina,... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published June 16, 2011

  Newly Reviewed Becky's New Car Becky Foster (Susie Wall) is a hard-working, middle-aged woman who, through a sin of... More >>

• St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published June 9, 2011

  Newly Reviewed More >>