Now including both on-line and live events during the pandemic. To
get your event listed here, send an email to calendar [at]
stageleft.org.
The Blue Strawberry presents
Open Mic Night with Sean
Skrbec and Patrick White Sundays at 7 pm. "Come on down and sing,
come on down to play, or come on down to listen and enjoy." The club
is operating under a
"COVID careful" arrangement with restricted
indoor capacity, mask requirements, and other precautions. The Blue
Strawberry is on North Boyle in the Central West End. For more
information:
bluestrawberrystl.com.
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| Laka |
The Blue Strawberry presents
Laka in
The
Story and Glory of Love, with Corey Patterson on piano,
Thursday at 730 pm, February 11. "In a long black dress, high heels
and sparkling jewelry, her right hand balanced on the nook of a
grand piano, her left wrapped around a microphone, Laka’s a picture
of the sleekest of west end beauties. Her subject on this start of
Valentine’s weekend? The story and the glory of love. Her listeners
will be at cabaret tables, with cocktails. With all of its joy and
all of its pain, its twists and turns and ups and downs, there has
never been a subject of song as remotely popular as love. Laka
sings, especially this year, to the longing for connection - and
reconnection - in all of our hearts. She picks the songs of Anita
Baker, Sade, Al Green and Frank Sinatra (and others) to tie
the narrative together." The club is operating under a
"COVID
careful" arrangement with restricted indoor capacity, mask
requirements, and other precautions. The show is also available as a
live video stream.The Blue Strawberry is on North Boyle in the
Central West End. For more information:
bluestrawberrystl.com.
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| Chuck Flowers |
The Blue Strawberry presents
Chuck Flowers in
Love Notes, Friday at 730 pm, February 12. "Chuck
Flowers returns to the Blue Strawberry for Valentine’s weekend with
Love Notes, a sophisticated take on some of the world’s most
romantic, intimate and well-known love songs. Ballads for sure, but
also fun, surprising and joyful up-tempo expressions of The
Valentine Force. It takes two to be in a relationship, and special
guest
Kim Fuller Barnes dons the role of partner in
sometimes moving, sometimes hilarious duets. Chuck's heavy-hitter
ensemble features Antonio Foster on piano, Vince Clark on upright
bass, and Demarius Hicks on drums. " The club is operating under a
"COVID
careful" arrangement with restricted indoor capacity, mask
requirements, and other precautions. The show is also available as a
live video stream.The Blue Strawberry is on North Boyle in the
Central West End. For more information:
bluestrawberrystl.com.
Circus Harmony in St. Louis and
Circus Circuli in
Stuttgart, St. Louis's German sister city, present
Sister
City Circus, on Circus Harmony’s YouTube page.
"Through a series of online meetings, workshops, and classes the two
troupes created 6 different circus acts and then filmed them at
iconic architectural locations in each of their cities." For more
information, visit
the
Circus
Harmony
YouTube
channel.
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| Look
Into My Eyes |
First Run Theatre presents an on-demand streaming version of
Look Into My Eyes, a new play by Robb Willoughby,
through the end of February 2021. The play can be viewed on
First Run's
YouTube channel as well as on the
First Run Facebook page.
Fly North Theatricals presents three new free digital series.
Their new digital line up includes
The Spotlight Series,
the
Grown-Up Theatre Kids Podcast, and
Gin and
the Tonic.
The Spotlight Series highlights the
Fly North family of students and actors performing songs from
previous FNT shows. In the
Grown-Up Theatre Kids podcast you
can join Colin Healy and Bradley Rohlf every other Friday as they
explore life after drama club and what it means to make a living in
theatre far from the lights of broadway.
Gin and the Tonic
is a "reckless unpacking of music history’s weirdest stories hosted
by Colin Healy.”
The Spotlight Series and
Gin and the
Tonic are available at the
Fly North Theatricals YouTube channel and the
Grown-Up Theatre Kids podcast can also be found on Spotify,
Apple Podcasts, Sticher, other podcast platforms. All three are
updated on a bi-weekly (every other week) basis.
The Lemp Mansion Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre presents
A
Fistful of Hollers through May 8. "Gun slingers, dance
hall girls, cowboys, gold diggers, cowboy boots and ten-gallon-hats
will abound. Rowdy cowboys will duel to the death as the crooked
sheriff watches with glee. But none of these characters are as
dangerous as Nasty Nate, he’s the orneriest gun in the west and word
is that he’s going to be stirring up trouble at the Lemp Mansion."
The Lemp Mansion is at 3322 DeMenil Place in south city. For more
information:
www.lempmansion.com
Metro Theatre Company presents
Jacked!
streaming on demand through March 31. "From playwright Idris Goodwin
(
Ghost,
And in this Corner: Cassius Clay) comes the
Jack and the Beanstalk story with a modern-day twist. And it’s not
just the story that has a fresh take. This all-new virtual
production fuses storytelling and poetry with a smart, moving hip
hop score and hand-drawn animation based on visuals by artist Nick
Kryah – exploring the imaginative boundaries of theater, film, and
animation. You and the children in your family join Jack for an
adventure that might start with the beanstalk, but follows Jack and
his mother as they struggle to live happily ever after." For more
information:
metroplays.org.
Moonstone Theatre Company presents
Moonstone
Connections, a series of in-depth interviews with arts
leaders by company founder Sharon Hunter. New episodes air the third
Tuesday of each month; see
linktr.ee/moonstoneconnections
for more information.
The Muny presents
Attuned: Cast Me at the Muny,
a nine-part podcast that "showcases audition tips and funny stories,
while offering an inside look at what makes casting a Muny show so
challenging." The series is available on demand at the Classic 107.3
web site. For more information:
classic1073.org/podcasts
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L-R: Angel
Riley, Ryan Johnson in
The Pirates of Penzance |
Opera Theatre of St. Louis presents an abridged, 30-minute
version of Gilbert and Sullivan's
The Pirates of Penzance
designed to introduce children to the world of Opera.
The
Pirates of Penzance is available via on-demand streaming
through February 27. "As a child, Frederic was accidentally
apprenticed to a conscientious but hapless band of pirates. On the
day of his 21st birthday, Frederic thinks he’s finally free to
explore the world — and meet girls — but some fine print in his
contract leads to a surprising twist." For more informtation:
opera-stl.org/on-the-go.
The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, in collaboration with
Baltimore Center Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, The Public Theater and
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, present
Play at Home,
a series of micro-commissioned short plays from some of the American
theatre's most exciting and prominent playwrights. These new plays –
which all run 10 minutes or less – are available for the public to
download, read and perform at home for free at
playathome.org.
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Adena
Varner and family
|
The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis presents a live video
stream of the
WiseWrite Digital Play Festival running
until the end of the Rep's 2020-2021 season. “Step into the
imagination of three young playwrights as The Rep presents
professional readings of their new plays.” The production is
directed by Adena Varner, the Rep's Director of Learning and
Community Engagement. For more information:
repstl.org.
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Deal
Orlandersmith in
After the Flood |
The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and
All Arts
present
Until the Flood, written and performed by
Dael
Orlandersmith, via on-demand streaming. "On August 9, 2014,
Darren Wilson, a white police officer, shot and killed Michael
Brown, an African American teenager in Ferguson, Missouri. The
shooting ignited weeks of social unrest, propelled the Black Lives
Matter movement and prompted a controversial investigation by the
U.S. Department of Justice. Celebrated writer, performer and
Pulitzer Prize finalist Dael Orlandersmith traveled to St. Louis and
conducted interviews with dozens of people who were grievously
shaken by Brown’s shooting and the turbulent aftermath. From these
intimate conversations, Orlandersmith created eight unforgettable
characters who embody a community struggling to come to terms with
the personal damage caused by these events." For more information:
allarts.org
R-S Theatrics presents
While the Ghostlight Burns,
a virtual discussion series featuring R-S Artistic Director Sarah
Lynne Holt in conversation with St. Louis theatre artists, Mondays
at 7 pm. Conversations will be archived at the
R-S Theatrics YouTube channel. For more
information:
r-stheatrics.com/while-the-ghostlight-burns.html
The St. Louis Cabaret Conference is accepting applications
for a five-week
Song Performance Class using the JamKazam
platform. Classes will take place Saturdays from 1-4 pm, February 20
through March 20. "This is a song performance coaching class with an
emphasis on increasing the singers ability to collaborate with their
musical director. You will do the same type of performance work, but
because of working latency free (no delay) we will be able to adjust
keys, tempos, and in some cases begin the process of arrangments.
The purpose of the class is not to hand you a complete arrangment,
but to empower you to an active participant in the arrangement
process via acting choices, lyric interpretation and how the song
will be used in a performance, etc Award winning music director
Christopher Denny and St. Louis Cabaret Conference Artistic Director
Tim Schall will lead the class. New York tech guru Matt Berman will
monitor the platform for ease of use during each class so the focus
can be on your work." A two-month Gold Level JamKazam account is
included in the price of the course. For more information:
www.stlouiscabaretconference.com.
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Come
Together
|
The St. Louis Shakespeare Festival presents streaming videos
from the
SHAKE20 festival, including re-imagined,
condensed versions of classic Shakespeare plays and new takes on old
favorites like Joe Hanrahan's
Come Together, at the
Shakespeare Festival Facebook page at
www.facebook.com/pg/STLShakesFest/videos
The St. Louis Writers Group streams live recordings of
previous play reading sessions at their Facebook page. For more
information:
facebook.com.
The St. Louis Writers Group presents
Bits and Pieces,
a Zoom workshop on play writing, Monday at 6:30 pm, February 15.
Bits
and Pieces is an interactive workshop in which ideas can be
explored and partly-completed scripts can be read and reviewed by
experienced actors and writers. Advance registration is required.
For more information, visit the
St. Louis Writers Group page on Facebook.
SATE, in collaboration with
COCA and
Prison
Performing Arts, presents
Project Verse: Creativity in
the Time of Quarantine. Project Verse presents two new
plays:
Quatrains in Quarantine by e.k. doolin and
Dream
On,
Black
Girl:
Reflections
in Quarantine by Maxine du Maine. The performances are
streamed free of charge on SATE’s
website and
Facebook page.
For more information:
slightlyoff.org.
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| Classic
Mystery Game |
SATE also offers streaming performances of the shows
originally scheduled for live 2020 productions:
The Mary
Shelley Monster Show,
As You Like It
(produced for SHAKE20,
Project Verse, and
Classic
Mystery Game. The shows are available on
their YouTube channel.
Union Avenue Opera offers
Sneak Peeks of its 2021
season operas
Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville),
Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann) and
The
Cradle
Will Rock on
its YouTube channel.
Looking for auditions and other artistic opportunities? Check out
the
St.
Louis Auditions site.
For information on events beyond this week, check out the
searchable database at the Regional Arts Commission's
Events Calendar.
Would you like to be on the radio?
KDHX, 88.1 FM
needs theatre reviewers. If you're 18 years or older,
knowledgeable in this area, have practical theatre experience
(acting, directing, writing, technical design, etc.), have good
oral and written communications skills and would like to become
one of our volunteer reviewers, send an email describing your
experience and interests to chuck at kdhx.org. Please include a
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