I was downtown last night, drove by The Dome, and noticed that it still has signs outside exhorting people to buy St. Louis Rams tickets. I’m sure someone will get around to taking them down any month now. I was going to write a post about Larry Wilmore’s performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner, […]
That’s Tony-winner Christian Borle as William Shakespeare in “Something Rotten,” in a performance at the White House that reminds me of Tim Curry. I’m returning to “Something Rotten” because in writing about it yesterday, I mentioned how the show pokes fun at other musicals, but I neglected to mention that its creators had never created […]
I spent last week in New York, visiting my mother and daughter and taking in a couple of Broadway shows that could not be more dissimilar — a stunning drama and an out-and-out musical farce. The drama was David Harrower’s “Blackbird,” starring Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams. It’s the story of a woman in her […]
I’m sad to hear of the death of Ken Howard (at 71). He is being remembered in quickie-obits as the president of the Screen Actors Guild, star of “The White Shadow,” and recurring guest star on “30 Rock.” But to me, he will always be Thomas Jefferson in “1776,” a role he played both on […]
The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis has an annual series called “Ignite!” It consists of three new plays, still works-in-progress, which are presented in a rehearsal hall without costumes or sets. The actors rehearse for a few days, then read it from looseleaf notebooks on music stands. The playwright, who often has been making changes […]
Last April, I raved about “Beautiful,” the Broadway show about the life and career of singer/songwriter Carole King, and recommended you see it if you get to New York. Well, now you don’t have to, because the bus-and-truck national tour of “Beautiful” has come to St. Louis, where it plays through March 6th (get tickets […]