Email Author Paul Friswold

2013 Stories by Paul Friswold

• Party People

  published March 28, 2013

  Johann Strauss' operetta Die Fledermaus revolves around a massive party, and the large amount of lies a group of interconnected... More >>

• Prepare to Be Outraged

  published March 28, 2013

  When an elected official decries the current state of film and television and issues a call for a return to the "good old days," sit that idiot... More >>

• MO-MO The Football Team

  published March 28, 2013

  We're in the football drought, at least as far as NFL games are concerned. That season doesn't start for another few months, but if you're... More >>

• Maximum Morpho Madness

  published February 28, 2013

  Every March, the The Butterfly House (15193 Olive Boulevard, Chesterfield; 636-530-0076 or More >>

• The Conservati of Oz

  published March 28, 2013

  Robert Menzies, better-known to his constituents as "Pig Iron Bob," was Australia's Prime Minister during WW II and through the early '60s.... More >>

• Iron Fork

  published March 28, 2013

  The Riverfront Times presents the seventh annual Iron Fork, a benefit for the St. Louis Area Foodbank. Come sample food from 45... More >>

• Breaking the Ice

  published March 21, 2013

  Sara J. Henry's debut novel, Learning to Swim, introduced freelance reporter Troy Chance, an independent woman who captured a legion... More >>

• Playing to Type

  published January 3, 2013

  The cultural argument concerning the continuing existence of books in the digital age rumbles on apace, with neither the pro-book crowd nor the... More >>

• The Con Is On

  published March 21, 2013

  It's been since, oh, forever that St. Louis has hosted a major comic convention. And the Wizard World St. Louis Comic Con is definitely... More >>

• Laced with Worries

  published January 24, 2013

  Peregrine Honig started her professional career with a bang, becoming the youngest artist to have work in the Whitney Museum of American Art's... More >>

• Abnormally Unhappy

  published February 28, 2013

  Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey's rock musical next to normal is about a suburban family trying to cope with mental illness. Diana, the... More >>

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  The Whipping Man: Post-Civil War drama, kosher for Passover

  published March 28, 2013

  Three Jewish men huddle in the ruins of their family estate, trying to cobble together the necessary ingredients for a Passover seder. Caleb... More >>

• The Cirque Thing

  published March 14, 2013

  Duncan Wall grew up in St. Louis, and despite the normalcy that implies, he ran away to join the circus. Well, technically he ran away to... More >>

• The Winner's Circle

  published March 14, 2013

  With the apparent demise of the Kevin Kline awards, the St. Louis theater community faced a void. Sure, quality work would still be done on and... More >>

• Cleared for Take-Off

  published February 28, 2013

  Bernard is a playboy living the dream. He's got a swank pad in Paris, it's the 1960s and he's dating a stewardess -- three of 'em, in fact.... More >>

• Prefer Madness: It's a tad uneven, but As You Like It offers plenty to please

  published March 21, 2013

  Early in the first act of St. Louis Shakespeare's production of As You Like It, a wrestling match breaks out. Orlando (Aaron... More >>

• All the Right Moves

  published March 7, 2013

  The New York City Ballet is a 100-dancer strong company with its own orchestra, which makes touring logistically difficult. Fortunately, the... More >>

• She Lived for Art

  published March 7, 2013

  Giacomo Puccini's Tosca is one of those operas in which the music must do most of the heavy lifting because the plot is convoluted... More >>

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  Canine Teeth: Careful — Daniel Damiano's Day of the Dog will bite you

  published March 14, 2013

  We never see the dog, Carrot, in Daniel Damiano's Day of the Dog, currently seeing its world premiere courtesy of St. Louis... More >>

• A Bit of Belushi

  published February 28, 2013

  The legend of John Belushi (and the apparent talentless nature of his brother Jim) have partially obscured just how funny he could be. John... More >>

• A Life in Painting

  published January 10, 2013

  New Jersey-born Edward Boccia came to St. Louis in 1951 to teach painting at Washington University and never left. He also never ceased developing... More >>

• Stop Making Sense

  published January 24, 2013

  Times are tough for the Dashwood women. Mr. Dashwood has just died, his son from his first marriage has inherited the family estate and all dad's... More >>

• Spellbinding

  published February 21, 2013

  For high-stakes, palm-sweating tension, you can't beat the spelling bee. One slip of the tongue or an inopportune brain cramp and you're out. And... More >>

• The Discipline of Beauty

  published February 28, 2013

  Sometimes it is the limitations placed upon us that free us creatively. Director/writer/theorist Jane Comfort explores the American concept of... More >>

• Unseen Photographs

  published January 24, 2013

  Deborah Nelson Linck has curated a powerful photography exhibition of invisible people. The people in the photographs were all real people, but... More >>