St. Louis theatre calendar for the week of September 23, 2013

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Washington University Performing Arts Department presents The A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival on Saturday, September 28. Performances take place in the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre in the Mallinckrodt Student Center on the Washington University campus. For more information, call 314-935-6543.

Three-Legged Productions presents: Blair and Bob: Breakin' Bad - An Unstable, Risque Cabaret on Thursday, September 26th, and Friday, September 27th at 8 PM the cabaret space at Meyer's Grove, 4510 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, Mo, 63110. St. Louis Cabaret favorite Anna Blair teams up with theater veteran Robert A. Mitchell (in his final St. Louis performance) to bring together an evening of ribald and provocative hilarity, blurring the lines of traditional cabaret with a mix of genres from musical theater, classic rock and contemporary Top 40 to bawdy drinking songs, lurid French chansons and parodies so blue that they're nearly black. This is most definitely an R-rated show, so DISCLAIMER: FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY. Music Direction is by the inimitable Carol Schmidt, with additional guitar support by Ryan Foizey. For more info BlairAndBobBreakingBad.BrownPaperTickets.com. Or call (314) 327-3381.

The Pub Theater Company presents Bye Bye Liver: The St. Louis Drinking Play, a comedic romp through the joys and pitfalls of The Gateway to the West's favorite pastime. Performances take place on Saturdays at 9 PM at Maggie O'Brien's, 2000 Market Street. For more information, you may call 314-827-4185, email stlouis at byebyeliver.com, or visit byebyeliver.com/stlouis.

Photo: Jerry Naunheim, Jr.

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis presents the Kander and Ebb musical Cabaret through October 6. “In this multi award-winning musical, a young, naïve American writer arrives in 1930s Berlin and is swept away by the decadent pleasures of the sexy, seedy world that is the Cabaret. At the center of it all is the beguiling Sally Bowles, who takes the stage every night. Inside the Kit Kat Klub life is beautiful, but outside the world is about to change.” Performances take place at the Loretto-Hlton Center, 130 Edgar Road in Webster Groves, MO. For more information, call 314-968-4925 or visit repstl.org. Read the 88.1 KDHX review!

The Lemp Mansion Comedy-Mystery Dinner Theater presents Dead Like Me through November 16. The Lemp Mansion is at 3322 DeMenil Place. For more information: lempmansion.com

Christ Memorial Productions presents the musical Fiddler on the Roof Friday sand Saturday at 7:30 PM and Sunday at 2 PM. Performances take place at Christ Memorial Lutheran Church, 5252 South Lindbergh. For more information, visit CMPShows.org or call 314-631-0304.

The Bissell Mansion Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre presents Footless through October 31. The Bissell Mansion is at 4426 Randall Place. For more information: bissellmansiontheatre.com

Photo: John Lamb

The West End Players Guild opens their 103rd season with the St. Louis premiere of Lee Blessing's Lonesome Hollow by Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 2 PM, September 27-October 6. There will also be a show on Thursday, October 3, at 8 PM. “In an America of the 'soonish' future, society has taken a stand against sex offenders, consigning them permanently to a series of privately-run gulags. This provocative and chilling parable of vengeance and community standards charts a disturbing trip down a slippery moral slope.” Performances take place at the Union Avenue Christian Church, 733 North Union at Enright in the Central West End. For more information, call 314-367-0025 or visit www.westendplayers.org.

The Alpha Players of Florissant present the musical Les Miserables September 17 - October 6 at The Florissant Civic Center Theater, Parker Rd. at Waterford Dr. in Florissant, MO. For more information, call 314-921-5678.

Brass Rail Players present The Musical Comedy Murders Of 1940 Thursday through Sunday, September 26-29. Performances take place at Lindenwood University's Belleville Auditorium, 2600 West Main Street in Belleville, IL. For more information, visit brassrailplayers.org.

Photo: Peter Wochniak

Stages St. Louis presents My Fair Lady through October 6. Performances take place in the Robert G. Reim Theatre at the Kirkwood Community Center, 111 South Geyer Road in Kirkwood. For more information, visit stagesstlouis.org or call 314-821-2407. Read the 88.1 KDHX review!

Photo: John Lamb

Insight Theatre Company presents Thornton Wilder's Our Town through September 29. Performances take place in the Heagney Theatre, 530 East Lockwood on the campus of Nerinx Hall High School in Webster Groves. For more information, call 314-556-1293 or visit insighttheatrecompany.com.  Read the 88.1 KDHX review!

Sex + STL presents Cameryn Moore in her one-woman play Phone Whore Friday at 7:30 and 9:30 PM and Saturday at 7:30 PM, September 27 and 28. “A slice-of-life comedy/drama, Phone Whore won the award for Best Female Solo show at the 2010 San Francisco Fringe Festival. The play invites audiences in for an unflinching look at taboo, fantasy, and the place of "deviant" desires in society today. Playwright and performer Cameryn Moore draws extensively on her work experiences at a no-taboo service to flesh out both the absurdities and difficult truths that pervade the world of phone sex.“ Performances take place at the 2720 Cherokee Performing Arts Center. For more information: sexstl.com/phonewhore/

The Looking Glass Playhouse presents Shrek: The Musical September 26-October 6. Performances take place at 301 West St. Louis Street in Lebanon, Ill. For more information, visit www.lookingglassplayhouse.com.

St. Louis Actors' Studio opens its seventh season, themed Sins of the Father, with Susan Lori-Parks' Pulitzer Prize Winning play Topdog, Underdog through October 6. A “darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity,” the play “tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the shattering reality of their future.” Performances take place at the Gaslight Theatre, 358 North Boyle. For more information, call 314-458-2978 or visit stlas.org. Read the 88.1 KDHX review!

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