Theater Festivals

The Ten Best Food Events in St. Louis This Weekend: May 31 to June 2

Plenty of festivals await this weekend including Thurman LoopFest, Festa Junina, IndiHop and the Shakespeare Festival. Work up an appetite and learn about all of them and more after the jump. Friday (May 31): Horseradish Festival @ Woodland Park Entertainment includes live music, food booths, a h ... More >>

The Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra Composes Music For the Shakespeare Festival's Production of Twelfth Night

For the first time in its history, the Shakespeare Festival St. Louis will incorporate live music into its performances -- original, locally composed music at that! The dozen or so songs and snippets that made the final cut come from the minds behind Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra, the small ... More >>

Submit to Fringe! StL's Best Theater Festival Returns for Round 2

Consider yourself warned: St. Lou Fringe is coming back in 2013, from June 20-24. Due to an unfortunate conflict with Pride last summer, the 2012 edition of Fringe was woefully underpopulated, but it still won recognition in the pages of Riverfront Times as the year's Best Theater Festival and its f ... More >>

Motivating Iago

Plein Air Shakespeare

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If you're in the market for an unusual post-work activity on this pleasantly mild Monday, you're not going to find much that's more unusual than a free coffee shop performance of Shakespeare's Cymbeline. This strange story of love, betrayal, attempted murder, voyeurism and divine intervention is s ... More >>

Shakespeare Festival St. Louis Makes Yet Another Predictable Pick for 2012

​Fresh off its annual late-spring run (The Taming of the Shrew), this morning Shakespeare Festival St. Louis up and announced its production for 2012: Othello. You know SFSL, they're the folks who stage one of Shakespeare's plays each year on an outdoor stage in Forest Park and don't charge ad ... More >>

A Really Big Shrew

A Really Big Shrew

RFT Reviews of Kevin Kline Nominees

kevinklineawards.org​The nomination are out for the 6th annual Kevin Kline Awards honoring the best in St. Louis theater production. Click on the links below to read Riverfront Times' reviews of the nominees. Winners will be announced March 28 at an awards ceremony at the Loretto Hilton. P.S. We w ... More >>

Be Eco-Logical

History Lesson

No textbooks required

St. Louis Theater Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold encapsulate the St. Louis theater scene

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

Readers hammer deadbeats and RFT's theater critic

Richard the Turd: Beware the company that dares to stage The Tragedy of King Richard III

Much Ado ´Bout Nothin’, Y’all

Livin’ in the Past

See the Never-Before-Seen

Act One, Seen Five

Plugged Nickel

I Came, I Saw, I Contemplated

The Shakespeare Festival presents a slow-paced Caesar

Lust for Life

And parties! And diamonds!

She's a He, Isn't She?

Uhan Shii takes you on My Journey

Rough Magic

But for Prospero, the Shakespeare Festival's Tempest might blow

The Gift That Keeps On Giving

The Theater Santa, St. Thespis, brings gifts all year long

Best Children's Theater

Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis

Toil and Trouble

The Shakespeare Festival works hard to nail Macbeth but misses the mark

Dream Debased

What was supposed to be mystical -- Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream -- is instead mystifying.

Fairies of Forest Park

The St. Louis Shakespeare Festival conjures up A Midsummer Night's Dream

Best New Theater Group

(Mostly) Harmless Theatre

Park Paradise

Foul weather fails to dampen the inaugural presentation of the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis