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Steedy As She Goes: War Horse will amaze — and test your endurance

Joey's A Great Hoofer

Joey's A Great Hoofer

Odometer Reading: By far the best thing about 4000 Miles is its venerable star, Rita Gardner

William Friedkin tells us about Killer Joe and what's wrong with Hollywood

A Cracking Spectacle

Rosanne Cash On Her Career And Memoir, Which She Is Signing Tonight In St. Louis

​Rosanne Cash has endured some seriously heavy blows over the last decade. She lost her father and step-mother (Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash, respectively) over the course of a few months in 2003. Six weeks after her father's passing, her step-sister was found dead on bus in Tennessee. A c ... More >>

Miles to Go Jazztet Carries on East St. Louis' Music Tradition

Albert SamahaEast St. Louis Senior High's Miles to go Jazztet had the crowd bouncing at BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups.​The trumpet slipped in as a whisper, simmering below the bouncing bass and rattling drums, before Brady Lewis leaned back an inch and filled BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups with thick sou ... More >>

Fashion Week Music: The Highlights, The Appearances And The Odd Soundtracks

Richard GuatyAnna Wintour eyeballing Nicki's tights. Oh, to peek inside the mind of the Vogue editrix in chief in this moment.​Thank science Fashion Week is over. Isn't it just torture? If there's something worse than not being in New York City for the circus that is Mercedes Benz Fashion Week ... More >>

Home to conduct for Opera Theatre, Kirkwood High alum John McDaniel keeps Company with RFT

Dance Dance Revulsion: Natalie Portman goes batshit in a tutu in Black Swan

James Beard Foundation Honors Gerard Craft

Gerard Craft of Niche made the cut when the James Beard Foundation whittled the list of Best Chef: Midwest nominees -- a list that had also included Monarch's Josh Galliano -- to the finalists this morning. The James Beard Foundation Awards take place May, 3 at Lincoln Center in New York City.

It Girl: Sutton Foster is the face of Broadway musical theater

A Sneak at the Opera

Fernando de Sousa, Wikimedia Commons Dara Strickland is a leading expert on sneaking food and drink into the movies. She reports on her exploits for Gut Check (from an undisclosed location) every Monday. This week, she snuck into Gut Check International Headquarters on a Wednesday with this missive ... More >>

And Now, Back to Reality: Newark High School Violinist Steps Out On Her Own

Damn you Internet. For the second time in two days, you've brought me a video that makes me want to cry. Yesterday it was Susan Boyle, the Scottish woman who looked like a lamb to the slaughter on Britain's Got Talent, but whose gorgeous voice poleaxed Simon Cowell and restored my faith that sometim ... More >>

Mockingbird, Cantata: Two disparate acting careers converge on St. Louis this weekend

Blake House: Executive producer Paul Blake hasn't learned from the Muny's history. Nor, sadly, is he capable of repeating it.

Dennis Doesn't Write the Headlines: RFT theater critic sets the record — and Shakespeare Festival St. Louis — straight.

Born to the Stage

The Spirit Moves

Muddy Waters earns a bravo! New Jewish, not so much.

Film Openings

Week of August 31, 2006

Gun Slinger

An emerging star will take on the Muny in Annie Get Your Gun

Animal Crackers

In Madagascar, the wild things romp, then roam

Jazz Hands

Nineteen "monsters" of music come together in the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra

Get Me Rewrite!

Jeanine Tesori reveals what made her modernize Millie

Hitting the Mark

Official genius Ken Vandermark wants to reach people who don't know they like jazz

Texas Ram

Week of December 25, 2002

Golden Slumbers

Wash. U.'s Performing Arts Department has imagined Shakespeare's Twelfth Night as a breathtaking vision

No Reservations

Jay Russell's awe-inspiring performance transforms a tricky stunt -- the one-person play -- into a perfect 10

Surround Sound

"Night at the Oscars" juxtaposes the music of the St. Louis Symphony with clips from acclaimed films

Dawson's Peek

A look at the long career of rock & roller Ronnie Dawson

ESSENTIAL VIEWING

The Reduced Shakespeare Company offers the condensed version of human events with History Ain't What It Used to Be: The Complete Millennium Musical

Exit Interview

Saying farewell to Ovations! Series artistic director Evy Warshawski

Sound Checks

Peanuts in the Shell

Acclaimed director Michael Mayer, with a talented ensemble, tests the theater climate as the revival of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown heads for Broadway