Sunday, April 22, 2012

St. Louis theatre calendar for the week of April 23, 2012

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I'm now adding my own purely personal comments to events about which I think I have anything worthwhile to say. Because that's what bloggers do. If I have left your show out, please leave a comment with all the details.

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Union Avenue Opera presents Handel's Acis and Galatea Friday and Saturday at 8 PM and Sunday at 3 PM, April 27-29. Performances take place at the Union Avenue Christian Church, 733 Union at Enright in the Central West End. The opera is sung in English with projected English text. For more information, visit unionavenueopera.org or call 314-361-2881.

Angels in America, Part 1
Stray Dog Theatre presents Tony Kushner's Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 PM, April 12-14, 26-28, and May 10-12. Performances take place at The Tower Grove Abbey, 2336 Tennessee. For more information, call 314-865-1995. Read the 88.1 KDHX review!

Stray Dog Theatre presents Tony Kushner's Angels in America, Part 2: Perestroika Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 PM, April 19-21, May 3-5, and May 17-19. Performances take place at The Tower Grove Abbey, 2336 Tennessee. For more information, call 314-865-1995. Read the 88.1 KDHX review!
Angels in America, Part 2

O'Fallon TheatreWorks presents the musical Annie Jr. at the O'Fallon Municipal Centre auditorium through April 29. Curtain is 8:00 PM Fridays and Saturdays and 2:00 PM on Sundays. The O'Fallon Municipal Centre is located at 100 North Main Street in O'Fallon, MO. For more information, visit www.ofallon.mo.us or call 636-379-5606.

As You Like It
Washington University Performing Arts Department presents Shakespeare's As You Like It Friday and Saturday at 8 PM and Sunday at 2 PM Performances take place in the Edison Theatre in the Mallinckrodt Center on the Washington University campus. For more information, call (314) 935-6543. Read the 88.1 KDHX review!

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 Saturdaysat 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.

Marble Stage Fairy Tale Theatre presents The City Mouse and the Country Mouse Saturdays at noon through April 28 at Southampton Presbyterian Church, 4716 Lackland. For more information, call 314-437-0846 or visit www.marblestage.org.

Upstream Theater presents Conversations With an Executioner, adapted from the memoirs of Kazimierz Moczarski by Philip Boehm. Performances are Thursdays through Sundays through April 29 at the Kranzberg Arts Center, 501 North Grand. For more information, call (314) 863-4999 or visit www.upstreamtheater.org. Read the 88.1 KDHX review!

Clayton Community Theatre presents the comedy The Foreigner through April 29. Performances take place at the Washington University South Campus Theatre. For more information, call 314-721-9228 or visit placeseveryone.org.

Mustard Seed Theatre presents a staged reading of The Geography Of Nowhere by local playwright Joshua Cook, the winning entry in their New Play Contest, Monday at 7 PM at the Fontbonne Fine Arts Theatre, 6800 Wydown Blvd. For more information, call (314) 719-8060 or visit the web site at www.mustardseedtheatre.com.


Dramatic License Productions presents the musical I Do! I Do! Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 2 PM, April 26 through May 13. Performances take place at Dramatic License Theatre located at the upper level of Chesterfield Mall (near Sears and across from Houlihan's Restaurant. For more information, call 636-220-7012 or visit dramaticlicenseproductions.com.

The Opera Theatre of St. Louis Illuminating Opera series presents St. Louis Symphony Chorus Director Amy Kaiser in a discussion of Unsuk Chin's Alice in Wonderland on Saturday, April 28, at 9:45 AM. The program takes place at the Levy Opera Center, 210 Hazel Avenue. For more information, visit experienceopera.org or call 314-961-0644.

The Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University presents Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan Wednesday through Saturday at 8 PM and Sunday at 2 PM, April 25 through 29. Performances take place on the Browning Mainstage Theatre at the Loretto-Hilton Center on the Webster University campus. For more information, call 314-968-7128.

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
The Black Rep presents August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom through May 13. Performances take place at the Grandel Theatre, 3610 Grandel Square. For more information, visit theblackrep.org or call 314-534-3810. Read the 88.1 KDHX review!

Act II Community Theater presents Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 2 PM, April 27 through May 6. Performances take place at The St. Peters Community and Arts Center, 1035 St. Peters-Howell Road in St. Peters, MO. For more information, call 636-219-0150 or email info at act2theater.com.

Shakespeare Festival St. Louis presents The New World, based on Shakespeare's The Tempest, as part of the inaugural Shakespeare in the Streets festival scheduled April 27-29. The hour-long play will be performed at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, April 27-28, and at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 29, at the intersection of Cherokee Street and California Avenue. All performances are free.

West County Family Y's Y-Rep Troupers presents The Pied Piper: A Tale Of Whoa! April 27 through 29. Performances take place at the West County YMCa, 16464 Burkhardt Place. For more information, call (636) 532-6515 Ext. 227.

St. Louis Community College at Wildwood presents the musical revue A Thurber Carnival Friday and Saturday, April 27 and 28. Performances take place at the campus, 2645 Generations Drive in Wildwood, MO. For more information, visit www.stlcc.edu/ww or call 636-422-2000.

The St. Louis University Theatre Department presents Caryl Churchill's Vinegar Tom April 27 through May 6. Performances take place in Xavier Hall, 3373 West Pine Mall. For more information, call (314) 977-2998 or visit www.slu.edu/theatre.

The Winter's Tale
Mustard Seed Theatre presents Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale through April 29 at the Fontbonne Fine Arts Theatre, 6800 Wydown Blvd. For more information, call (314) 719-8060 or visit the web site at www.mustardseedtheatre.com. Read the 88.1 KDHX review!

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