Repertory Theater of St. Louis
THE ROOMMATE at Rep Theater Review
– By Cate Marquis – The Repertory Theater of St. Louis re-launches its beloved Studio series, now the Steve Woolf Studio Series, in their lower-level, black-box Emerson Studio space, with a winning firecracker of a play, “The Roommate.” This two-person play puts two women who couldn’t be more different together as roommates in a large…
DIAL M FOR MURDER at Rep Theater Review
– By Cate Marquis – The Repertory Theater of St. Louis gets its 2024-2025 season off to a thrilling start with “Dial M for Murder,” on stage at the Loretto Hilton Theater in Webster Groves through Oct. 13. Many of us know “Dial M for Murder” through the Alfred Hitchcock movie but, in fact, Hitchcock…
AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY at Rep Theater Review
– By Cate Marquis – The Repertory Theater of St. Louis finishes it’s 2023-2024 season on an exceptionally strong note, with the excellent drama “August: Osage County.” Despite a rocky post-pandemic situation that had threatened the season or more, this strength of this last production of the current season gives one hope. It is a…
MOBY DICK at Rep Theater Review
– By Cate Marquis – Herman Melville’s classic epic of the sea and obsession, in search of the great white whale, seems like something too difficult to adapt for the stage. But that assumption is proven wrong with “Moby Dick,” now on stage at the Repertory Theater of St. Louis. The Rep’s dramatic, acrobatic stage…
GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES at Rep Theater Review
– By Cate Marquis – The Repertory Theater of St. Louis finishes it’s 2022-2023 season strong with a powerful two-person drama, “Gruesome Playground Injuries.” Actually, what we see on stage is not particularly gruesome (the injuries place off-stage) and most of the injuries don’t take place on the playground, but there is blood, pain and…
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS at Rep Theater Review
– By Cate Marquis – The ever-popular Agatha Christie mystery classic “Murder on the Orient Express” brings mystery and glamour to the Repertory Theater of St. Louis’ Mainstage for their penultimate show of the 2022-2023 season. Agatha Christie’s Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot (Armando Duran) is supposed to be on vacation but then the famous detective…
CONFEDERATES at Rep theater review
– By Cate Marquis – “Confederates,” the latest play on the Repertory Theater of St. Louis’ Mainstage, is, by far, the best show in the Rep’s 2022-2023 season yet. “Confederates” tells two compelling stories in parallel, about two Black women, one a present-day professor at a small Ivy League university and the other an enslaved…
SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM at Rep theater review
(l-r) Paul Heesang Miller, Saidu Sinlah, Phoenix Best, and Amy Spanger, in the Rep’s “Side By Side By Sondheim.” Photo credit: Phillip Hamer Photography. Courtesy of the Repertory Theater of St. Louis – By Cate Marquis – The Repertory Theater of St. Louis stepped into the new year by delving into Sondheim with “Side By…
39 STEPS at Rep Theater Review
Photo: (left to right) Futaba Shioda, Jimmy Kieffer, Ryan Colbert and Olivia Gilliatt in Patrick Barlow’s adaption of “The 39 Steps,” on stage at the Repertory Theater of St. Louis through April 10. Photo Credit: Jon Gitchoff. Courtesy of the Repertory Theater of St. Louis – By Cate Marquis – “The 39 Steps” closes out…
STICK FLY at Rep Theater Review
“Stick Fly,” the current Repertory Theater of St. Louis’ Mainstage production, centers on a wealthy African American family, the LeVays, as they gather for their annual summer vacation at the family’s stately Victorian home on Martha’s Vineyard, in this family drama comedy, that touches on class, race, privilege, sibling rivalry and father issues. “Stick Fly”…