theater review

Aliya Grace as Betty Boop and the “BOOP! The Musical” North American Touring company. Photo by Matthew Murphy. Courtesy of the Fabulous Fox Theater – By Cate Marquis – The Broadway tour of “Boop!” boop-oop-a-doops into the Fabulous Fox Theater for some Jazz-era cartoon fun, Oct. 27 – Nov. 8. The musical is inspired by…

Kristen Beth Williams as Helen Sharp and Ken Marino as Ernest Menville in the North American Tour of Death Becomes Her. Photo by Matthew Murphy for MurphyMade. Courtesy of the Fabulous Fox – By Cate Marquis – “Death Becomes Her” continues the Fox’s wonderful “spooky season” fall, with a hilarious musical comedy adaptation of the…

“The Woman In Black,” on stage at the Repertory Theater of St. Louis until Oct. 26, is easily the best theatrical offering for the Halloween season this year, and maybe any year. A classic Victorian ghost story told in a creatively unique way, the London production of Susan Hill’s novel features only two actors but…

– By Cate Marquis – The “six” in the Broadway hit musical “Six” are the six wives of Henry the Eighth. Apart from Anne Boleyn, the queens are remember more as a group and mostly for their connection to the much-married king, but this British-born musical, which returns to the Fox stage through Feb.2, aims…

– By Cate Marquis – With a ringing “Hello, St. Louis,” the touring version of the hit London musical production “Mrs Doubtfire” strode onto the Fabulous Fox stage for a New Year’s season run through January 7. In recent years, there has been a spate of musicals adapted from hit movies, not all of which…

– By Cate Marquis – The legendary Tina Turner has been called “Queen of Rock’n’Roll” but the late music icon got her start right here in St. Louis. This is one of the biographical tidbits included in the hit Broadway musical “Tina – The Tina Turner Musical.” Packed with famous Tina Turner hits, “Tina –…

– By Cate Marquis – The Tony-winning Broadway hit “Tootsie” strides onto the Fabulous Fox stage, bringing laughter and some food for thought on gender roles. It is based, of course, on the Oscar-winning movie TOOTSIE, starring Dustin Hoffman as an out-of-work actor whose reputation for perfectionism has made him practically unemployable, forcing him to…

– By Cate Marquis – Legendary and beloved local actor Joneal Joplin is back on stage with Moonstone Theater Company’s “Grand Horizons” – and he brought his son with him. Jared Joplin, an Equity actor like his father, plays the role of Joneal Joplin’s son, in the hilarious and honest “Grand Horizons,” a Tony-nominated play…

– By Cate Marquis – The performance art troupe Blue Man Group returned to the Fabulous Fox Theater, Feb. 9-12. The performance art troupe of blue men in black, silent presumably aliens with a creative curiosity and a penchant for drumming, is touring again. The tagline this tour is “Still Blue. The Rest Is All…

The delightful Lincoln Center Theater Production of “My Fair Lady,” which is playing the Fox Theater through Apr. 3, checks all the boxes, and then some. It is easily the best production to grace the Fox’s stage so far this season. The Lincoln Center touring company offers beautiful, strong voices and charismatic performances, plus gorgeous…