2020 was set to be a banner year for Shakespeare Festival St. Louis. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, a name change —St. Louis Shakespeare Festival— was announced early in the year, and planning for this season’s production of Much Ado About Nothing was in full gear. Then COVID 19 appeared on the world stage, and…
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St. Louis Actors’ Studio’s fundraiser enlists celebrities with St. Louis connections
For 48 years CWEnder William Roth, above, has poured his heart and soul into the St. Louis theater-scene, both as an actor and as founder and artistic director of St. Louis Actors’ Studio, a 99-seat theater that opened at 360 N. Boyle in 2006. To mark the occasion of the theater’s 10th anniversary, I posted…
A visit to Park-Like in Grand Center
Exploring the Pulitzer-Arts Foundation’s new Park-Like installation for the first time last Saturday afternoon was a delight and yet a bit eerie. I was totally alone as I meandered throughout the park (located on Washington just east of Spring) and the only sound was a concentration of birdsong and humming insects—sounds you’d expect to encounter…