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Saturday, June 4, 2022

Regional Reviews: St. Louis - "The Karate Kid - The Musical" - 6/4/22 by Richard Green

The Karate Kid - The Musical, now having its world premiere at Stages St. Louis, and boldly promised for Broadway. There are plenty of admirable moments of spiritual elegance, in apposition …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:00PM
Saturday, April 23, 2016

"Trash Macbeth" World Premiere in St. Louis by Richard Green

Here, Shakespeare's famed story of ambition and murder and very slippery prophecy explodes in great, wretched chaos, with overlapping monologs and unexpected costumes and settings and props�…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:45AM
Tuesday, September 15, 2015

"All the Way" Makes St. Louis Debut by Richard Green

It's a herculean effort, both for President Johnson and actor Brian Dykstra, one which often resembles a collision of C-SPAN and "Game Of Thrones."

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:34AM
Monday, December 8, 2014

"Reality" as HotCity Winds to a Close by Richard Green

The announcement of the impending closure was our local theater community's latest 100 mph crash into the realities that every theatre must eventually face.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:26AM
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

"Stairs to the Roof" Rare Williams Play in St. Louis by Richard Green

As a young man, the Pulitzer Prize winning author (of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, among others) performed in community theater at the same austere, elegant St. Louis Artists' Guild building, on t…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:52AM
Tuesday, October 7, 2014

St. Louis New Line's "Bonnie & Clyde" by Richard Green

... the implications of murder and robbery tower over them as their celebrity grows�thanks to directors Scott Miller and Mike Dowdy. The crazy love on stage becomes an end in itself for this…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:02AM
Wednesday, September 10, 2014

"First Lady Suite" hits St. Louis by Richard Green

The cast is absolutely great, the music weaves a dissonant spell, and the humor is brilliantly wacky under the direction of Shulee Cook (with the surprisingly complex musical direction of Ni…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:19AM
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

"Mary Shelley Monster Show" World Premiere by Richard Green

Nick Otten's play is strangely, inescapably endearing, in spite of the fact that it shows how each of our own lives can seem like patchwork monsters: haunting us just as much as Mary Shelley…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:14PM
Monday, August 18, 2014

St. Louis Shakespeare "The Liar" by Richard Green

Nicole Angeli (as Clarice) and Maggie Murphy (as Lucrece) are excellent as a pair of wacky, glammed-out Parisian mademoiselles in David Ives' 2011 adaption of Pierre Corneille's 1644 play.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:37PM
Wednesday, August 6, 2014

St. Louis "Quills" by Richard Green

As the Marquis, Ted Gregory is simply mind-boggling-shocking, hilarious, giddy, and utterly grotesque�in a stylish, delightful sort of way that makes him even more dangerous, I suppose. The …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:50AM
Monday, July 28, 2014

Stages St. Louis "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying" by Richard Green

In an outstanding new production of Frank Loesser and Abe Burrow's famed musical comedy, we have a show that may, nevertheless, be remembered as the "Psychedelic H2$." And, of course, I pick…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:36AM

"Funny Girl" at Stray Dog by Richard Green

Lindsey Jones is the latest to stake her claim, singing the role terrifically, and playing comedy and tragedy with honesty and simplicity.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:35AM
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

St. Louis "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" by Richard Green

Challenging for the actors, and sometimes even challenging for the audience, the RS Theatrics production of Frank McGuinness' 1992 hostage drama gives us three outstanding performers to appr…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:34AM
Wednesday, June 4, 2014

"Hands on a Hardbody" Regional Premiere by Richard Green

Before the opening, Mr. Miller said that the concept of directing a cast�even one as talented as this one is�to keep at least one hand (in a Mickey Mouse glove) planted on a new pick-up truc…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:09PM
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Slightly Askew "Bachelorette" by Richard Green

If you can stand some "elbow-in-the-face" humor, and equally brash sex and drug references please don't miss it.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:42PM
Monday, May 12, 2014

St. Louis "Old Jews Telling Jokes" by Richard Green

There's nothing like sitting back and just laughing for 75 minutes, and if you doubt it at all, go see this show. Five very funny, talented actors show you how to really laugh at yourself, e…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:54PM
Monday, March 24, 2014

New Jewish Theatre "The Price" by Richard Green

There are plenty of funny, endearing moments, too, supplied by actor Bobby Miller as a used furniture buyer. But, even at the age of 89, Mr. Solomon seems like the only man on stage who can …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:54PM

St. Louis Rep "Noises Off" by Richard Green

If there really is an apocalypse out there in our future, it'll probably bear a strong resemblance to Michael Frayn's farce-to-end-all-farces, Noises Off.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:53PM
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

New Line "Rent" by Richard Green

It almost seems [Scott] Miller (as Artistic Director) is choosing his seasons nowadays for sheer emotional complexity, along with New Line's usual focus on strong musicianship.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:01PM
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

"The Whipping Man" at St. Louis New Jewish Theatre by Richard Green

The whole story becomes a gripping contest between the steadfast endurance of an older man (Mr. Davis) and the fear and impulsiveness of two younger men. And, thanks to director Doug Finlays…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:21PM

Upstream Theatre "Forget Me Not" by Richard Green

This is a surprisingly mainstream story, for a theater company that's usually uniquely, disarmingly other-worldly. And that puts me in an awkward position.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:19PM
Monday, December 9, 2013

Repertory Theatre of St. Louis "The Mousetrap" by Richard Green

This is a lavish, gripping new production of one of the longest-running plays in the English language. And Agatha Christie's whodunit shines with an outstanding cast of quirky, fascinating a…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:48AM

"The Butterfingers Angel..." by Richard Green

The full title of play is The Butterfingers Angel, Mary & Joseph, Herod the Nut and the Slaughter of 12 Hit Carols in a Pear Tree.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:47AM
Saturday, November 30, 2013

"Detective Partner Hero Villain" at Chicago's StrawDog by Richard Green

A weird, funny, terrific little show that puts a lot of big touring productions to shame, for sheer wit and audacity�and the simple fact that it assumes the audience has a brain in its head.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:34AM
Sunday, November 3, 2013

"The Hothouse" in St. Louis by Richard Green

Suppose "1984" came, and we never realized it�that there was no George Orwell, with writing as direct as cannon-fire, to tell us about the horrors of a violently out-of-control government, b…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:52PM
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

St. Louis Shakespeare "The Comedy Of Errors" by Richard Green

Stripped way down and very satisfyingly funny, this tale of two pairs of twin brothers features a breathless Ben Watts in all his frantic glory, as a badly used servant (two, in fact)�and ac…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:44PM

"Fly" at St. Louis Rep by Richard Green

Based on the stories of the Tuskegee Airmen, its brash, likable pilots benefit from the modern technical wizardry of the stage (clever use of projection screens) while its somewhat predictab…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:43PM
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

"Evil Dead: The Musical" at St. Louis' Stray Dog by Richard Green

Well, of course, Evil Dead: The Musical is not great theatre. But it is a great time, full of outrageous, anguished performances and lots and lots of ridiculously inventive moments�and fun s…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:25PM

New Line "Night of the Living Dead" by Richard Green

... you carry the dread of it with you after the show, all the way to bedtime. Scott Miller: musical theater director and master of suspense. Who knew?

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:25PM
Thursday, October 10, 2013

"Diary of a Madman" in St. Louis by Richard Green

There are still a few big Halloween shows set to open this month, but this is certain to be the scariest of the bunch.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:33PM
Tuesday, October 8, 2013

St. Louis New Jewish Theatre "The Good Doctor" by Richard Green

Theatergoers expect big relationship comedy from Simon, comedy that plays out in "the long game"�not the hit-and-run, ambiguous Russian format we see here, with dour twist-endings.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:07PM

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May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards