Orson Welles

Figure Noir

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10 Things to Do for $10 This Weekend in St. Louis, June 4-6, 2010

Nick SchnelleThe Trip Daddys, last year at the RFT Music Showcase. This year's fest is Saturday for $5.​Memorial Day has come and gone, and it's time to kick off summer. (Just look out for those scattered thunder storms on Saturday and Sunday.) This weekend brings indie craft fairs, more than a f ... More >>

Moving Right Along

Nick SchnelleThe Trip Daddys, last year at the RFT Music Showcase. This year's fest is Saturday for $5.​Memorial Day has come and gone, and it's time to kick off summer. (Just look out for those scattered thunder storms on Saturday and Sunday.) This weekend brings indie craft fairs, more than a f ... More >>

Interview: OK Go Vocalist Damian Kulash On The Band's New Label, New Direction and Yes, Its Videos

Picture GroupOK Go is at the Old Rock House on Sunday​It's not even half-over yet, but 2010 has already been a monumental year for OK Go. In January, the quartet released Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky, its first album of original material since 2005's Oh No. A marked departure from their earli ... More >>

¡Ask a Mexican!: Special Best-of Edition

Picture GroupOK Go is at the Old Rock House on Sunday​It's not even half-over yet, but 2010 has already been a monumental year for OK Go. In January, the quartet released Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky, its first album of original material since 2005's Oh No. A marked departure from their earli ... More >>

Standing O: Richard Linklater's Orson Welles puts on quite a show

Picture GroupOK Go is at the Old Rock House on Sunday​It's not even half-over yet, but 2010 has already been a monumental year for OK Go. In January, the quartet released Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky, its first album of original material since 2005's Oh No. A marked departure from their earli ... More >>

The Jury's Out Cold: This adaptation of Kafka's The Trial really is one

Picture GroupOK Go is at the Old Rock House on Sunday​It's not even half-over yet, but 2010 has already been a monumental year for OK Go. In January, the quartet released Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky, its first album of original material since 2005's Oh No. A marked departure from their earli ... More >>

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene

Don't Panic

It's a play, not an invasion

Dark Night: This kingdom is built on sneaky filming in the Florida Keys

It's a play, not an invasion

Stick a Fork in It

Grip it and dip it: Ian puts Simply Fondue to the test.

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Grip it and dip it: Ian puts Simply Fondue to the test.

You're Gonna Miss Me

The Stranger

Good Clean Smut

Porky's: The Ultimate Collection

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out local theater

HotCity, Cold Clockwork Orange

Ticktock, what a crock.

Nostalgia Trip

Steven Soderbergh tries, and largely fails, to make 'em like they used to.

Brain Drain

Unreal learns how to keep young, bright St. Louisans in town — and alive. Plus: Blog o' the Week, advice for the apocalypse and a chat with Bill the Thrill.

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent suss out local theater

Who Done Him?

Orson Welles' career arc gets a suitably incomparable stage treatment.

Ghost World

True-crime noir goes searching for Hollywood’s heart of darkness

What's up with Mexicans and their grooming habits?

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Why We Need DVDs

Week of July 20, 2006

City of Sisterly Love

Family art

MacD'Oh!

Macbeth performed entirely in Simpsons voices? Ex-cellent.

Sing, My Pretties

Bring the family to Sing-A-Long Wizard of Oz and walk away with a song in your heart (and a bunch of kazoos in your hand)

Good Humour Man

Forget Orson Welles. In Henry IV, part 2, Alan Knoll creates a Falstaff worthy of Howdy Doody.

Cardboard Miracles

In his new collection of poems, David Clewell hails the power of simple belief

Season's Greetings

Two prominent companies unfurl their first productions of the fall season. So far, so good.

Mixed Bag

Mamma Mia! smokes, Problem Child and Criminal Genius explode, Henry IV fizzles

Lazarus, Reborn

Peter Bogdanovich wasn't dead. He was just acting like it.

Cat Fight

Bogdanovich works out his demons on Citizen Hearst

True Fiction

Despite its title, It's All True isn't all true, but that doesn't prevent the HotHouse Theatre from successfully telling its story

Labor Pains

The New Line Theatre presents a legendary play that tackles unions, press, religion, the rich, even musicians and artists

Best Imported Theatrical Productions

Death of a Salesman and War of the Worlds

The Offstage Musical

The Cradle Will Rock brings agitprop theater, accompanied by a play to explain the politically charged musical, to St. Louis

All's Welles

Orson Welles emerges victorious in War of the Worlds

The Real Worlds

The avant-garde SITI Company melds fact and fiction in a new take on Orson Welles' infamous practical joke

The Big Payback

With this presidential debate, the highlights didn't come from Bush or Gore

Able Kane

Our reviewer presents a bouquet of rosebuds to Citizen Kane's steakhouse

Poetry Grand Slam

Roscoe Lee Browne and Anthony Zerbe bring their Broken Words to town

Never the Sinner

By John Logan (New Jewish Theatre)

CRADLE WILL ROCK

Written and directed by Tim Robbins

THE ROAD TO WELLES-VILLE

St. Louis native George Hickenlooper takes another step on his Hollywood career path with the Orson Welles adaptation The Big Brass Ring -- but a happy ending's still not in sight.

GHOSTS OF MISSOURI

Former St. Louisan George Hickenlooper collaborates posthumously with Orson Welles in The Big Brass Ring, now appearing on Showtime

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