St. Louis theatre calendar for the week of August 15, 2011

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The Tesseract Theatre Company will present a free reading of local playwright Joël Doty's 9-1-1 on August 18th at 7pm in the Regional Arts Commission Building, 6128 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63112 (across the street from The Pageant). Visit www.tesseracttheatre.org for more info or email contact at tesseracttheatre.org for any questions.

The Jewish Community Center presents Susan Tanner Meisel in her one-woman show Beyond Me: A Song Cycle In The Key Of Survival on Sunday, August 21, at 4 PM. The play “spotlights the courageous survival of St. Louisan Rachel Goldman Miller, a hidden child Holocaust Survivor”. The Jewish Community Center is at 2 Millstone Campus Drive. For more information, visit jccstl.com.

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 “select Saturdays” at Maggie O'Brien's, 2000 Market Street, and on the first and third Friday of each month at The Fox Hole at The Atomic Cowboy, 4140 Manchester in The Grove. For more information, you may call 314-827-4185 or visit byebyeliver.com/stlouis.

The Black Mirror Theatre Company presents its premier production of The Conversation at the Focal Point, 2720 Sutton, Maplewood, on Friday at 7 PM and Saturday and Sunday at 5:00 and 7:30 PM, August 19 - 21. Tickets are available at the door. For more information, call 314-740-6514 or visit blackmirrortheatre.com.

Dead Man Walking

Union Avenue Opera presents the Missouri premiere of Dead Man Walking Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM, August 19 through 27. Based on the novel of the same name by Sister Helen Prejean, Dead Man Walking has music by Jake Heggie and a libretto by Terrence McNally. Performances take place at the Union Avenue Christian Church, 733 Union at Enright in the Central West End. For more information, visit unionavenueopera.org or call 314-361-2881.

Debbie Does Dallas
the Musical

The NonProphet Theater Company presents Debbie Does Dallas - the Musical by Erica Schmidt, Andrew Sherman and Susan L. Schwartz Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 5 PM through August 20. For more information, call 636-236-4831 or visit nptco.org. Read the KDHX review!

The Improv Trick hosts weekly Long Form Improv performances every Tuesday at 7:30 PM at Lemmons Restaurant, 5800 Gravois. Long form improv features 15 to 20 minute sketches based entirely on audience suggestions, with audience participation strongly encouraged. For more information, visit theimprovtrick.com.

The Wine Press presents piano bar legend Margrit Miller on Tuesday, August 16, at 7:30 PM. “Please join Margrit and her friends on this special night. Sing along, try a solo, or just relax and enjoy listening to the many talented vocalists who will be there.” The Wine Press is at 4436 Olive. For more information, call 314-289-9463 or visit stlwinepress.com.

 

The Midnight Theatre Company presents the St. Louis premiere of Craig Wright's Mistakes Were Made. “Spend 90 furious, fulminating, very funny minutes with producer Felix Afrtifex as he tries to talk movie stars, playwrights, agents, directors, designers, theatre owners, and a lot of bad unfriendly dudes in The Middle East with a lot of ordnance and no conscience into helping him get a production to Broadway - his first new, substantive, American play - Mistakes Were Made - a play about the French Revolution, with a cast of 50, a guillotine, a star drop and a horse.” Performances take place Thursdays and Fridays at 8 PM and Saturdays 7 and 9 PM, August 18 through September 3, at The Kranzberg Center, 501 N. Grand. For more information call 314-487-5305 or visit www.midnightcompany.com.

The Secret
Garden

Stages St. Louis presents the musical The Secret Garden through August 21. 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 KDHX review!

The Ethical Society of St. Louis presents a staged reading of A Shot Away, personal accounts of Military Sexual Trauma written by Donna Fiumano-Farley, on Friday and Saturday at 8 PM, August 19 and 20. This is the first national stage reading of the play, which is also a fundraiser for the St. Louis Regional Sexual Assault Center. The Ethical Society is at 9001 Clayton Road. For more information, call 314-531-1115.

Soundstage Productions presents Spoon River Anthology Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 7 PM, August 19 through 28. Performances take place at Crestwood Plaza ArtSpace, #214 Crestwood Plaza on Watson Road in Crestwood, MO. For more information, send email to soundstange at msn.com.