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email to calendar at stageleft.org. Your event information
should be in text format (i.e. not part of a graphic), but feel
free to include publicity stills for inclusion here and on the
enhanced version of this calendar at the Stage Left blog
(where you can offer comments, updates and corrections).
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.
St. Louis playwright Nancy Bell's MUTE: A Play for Zoom,
which was performed live via Facebook on April 5, 2020, is available
as a live stream at vimeo.com. "In a world much like ours, there
exists a video conference call. And in this call, there are
academics, confusion, fire and...one hamster. An experimental
theatre piece that steals rabidly from Ionesco, Beckett, real life
and Chekhov. The play was for performance on Zoom by Nancy Bell and
directed by Lucy Cashion."
Leslie
Craig
The Blue Strawberry presents Leslie Craig
with An Amy Winehouse Tribute on Friday, August 14,
at 8 pm. “Amy Winehouse gets an acoustic and intimate tribute from
the incredible Leslie Craig, who does Amy justice.” Regarding
coronavirus safety, The Blue Strawberry says: “Aerosol scientists
suggest that singing is an activity associated with an increased
risk of audience exposure to the SARS-CoV2, the virus that causes
COVID-19. In order to minimize that risk, the singers in shows
presented at Blue Strawberry starting this August will all perform
from as far upstage as possible. Our stage is 10 feet deep, and they
will perform at the very back of the stage next to the wall.
Supporting musicians will all be masked. We will also pull back our
front row of seats 4 feet from the lip of the stage. This will
create at least 12 feet of space between the singer and the front
row of audience members. We have also reduced our inside capacity
from 100 to fewer than half that number.” The Blue Strawberry is at
364 N. Boyle in the Central West End. For more information: bluestrawberrystl.com.
Janet
Evra
The Blue Strawberry presents Janet Evra with A
Night of Joni Mitchell on Saturday, August 15, at 8 pm.
“British-Americanjazz singer Janet Evra returns to Blue Strawberry
to perform her favorite tunesfrom her favorite singer-songwriter:
Joni Mitchell. This special showwill feature Joni's hits
including "A Case of You", "Both SidesNow", "Woodstock", "Little
Green", as well as somedeeper cuts. Janet will talk about her
lifelong love for Joni and shareher insights into Joni's wonderful
songwriting and storytelling, and she willplay guitar and bass,
performing some songs solo and others with her acoustictrio
featuring Will Buchanan on guitar and Drew Weiss on drums.”
Regarding coronavirus safety, The
Blue Strawberry says: “Aerosol scientists suggest that singing
is an activity associated with an increased risk of audience
exposure to the SARS-CoV2, the virus that causes COVID-19. In order
to minimize that risk, the singers in shows presented at Blue
Strawberry starting this August will all perform from as far upstage
as possible. Our stage is 10 feet deep, and they will perform at the
very back of the stage next to the wall. Supporting musicians will
all be masked. We will also pull back our front row of seats 4 feet
from the lip of the stage. This will create at least 12 feet of
space between the singer and the front row of audience members. We
have also reduced our inside capacity from 100 to fewer than half
that number.” The Blue Strawberry is at 364 N. Boyle in the Central
West End. For more information: bluestrawberrystl.com.
The Blue Strawberry presents a Pop-Up Piano Bar with
Sir Stryker, "Piano Bar Star of the Holland America Cruise
Line," Tuesdays through Sundays from 6 to 10 pm. There is no cover
or minimum and sidewalk seating is available. The club is operating
under a "COVID careful" arrangement with restricted indoor capacity
and other precautions. The Blue Strawberry is at 364 N. Boyle. For
more information: bluestrawberrystl.com/
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 Fox Performing Arts Foundation presents the 10th annual St.
Louis
Teen Talent Competition Finals on Monday, August
10, at 8 pm on PBS Nine. “The final round of the competition was
originally scheduled to be performed in front of a live audience in
April at the Fox but it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thanks to a partnership with Nine PBS, the finalists were provided
the opportunity to compete and perform on the Fox Stage for a
special broadcast.” For more information: www.foxpacf.org/
Mark Ballas
and company in Jersey Boys (2018)
Photo by Phillip Hamer
The Muny presents The Muny 2020 Summer Variety
Hour Live! on Monday and Thursday, August 3 and 6, at
8:15 pm at youtube.com/themunytv.
This week's episode includes archive video clips from “Jerome
Robbins’ Broadway,” “Jersey Boys,” and “The Unsinkable Molly Brown”;
Muny artists and real-life couple Jason Gotay and Michael Hartung
performing “Song on the Sand” from “La Cage aux Folles”; members of
The Muny’s 2018 cast of “Meet Me In St. Louis reuniting via the
Internet to sing the famous title song; and "Do-Re-Mi," a special,
filmed-at-The-Muny song and dance performance featuring members of
The Muny Kids and Teens. For more information: muny.org/varietyhour/
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.
The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis invites budding young
writers throughout the nation to develop and submit plays to for
inclusion in its all-new WiseWrite Digital Play Festival.
“Through the incredible work of our education department, we've
posted an online curriculum at repstl.org/wisewrite
that teaches students how to construct plays and characters. We’re
accepting submissions from students grades 4 through 12 from
throughout the nation for inclusion in the festival, which will
feature performances by professional actors.” Submissions will be
accepted through August 31st. For more information: repstl.org/wisewrite.
Hamlet
vs. The State of Denmark
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 the mock trial Hamlet vs. The State of Denmark,
at the Shakespeare Festival Facebook page at www.facebook.com/STLShakesFest/
The St. Louis Shakespeare Festival is now taking reservations
for A Late Summer Night’s Stroll, which will take
place in Shakespeare Glen in Forest Park Tuesday through Sunday
evenings, August 12 – September 6. “See the park like you’ve never
seen it before on this 80-minute jaunt full of poetry, music and
art. Loosely inspired by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
'A Late Summer Night’s Stroll' puts you at the center of the story:
four lovers’ escape to an enchanted wood and the magical night of
transformation that follows. A socially-distant self-guided tour of
iconic spots and hidden gems, featuring custom installations,
open-air performances and charming vignettes.” The event is free and
all time slots are currently taken, but a waitlist is available .
For more information: stlshakes.org/production/stroll
The St. Louis Writers Group streams live recordings of
previous play reading sessions at their Facebook page. For more
information: facebook.com.
The Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis presents Something
Spoken: Tennessee Williams On the Air alternating
Saturdays at 5 pm on
Classic 107.3 FM. Each episode will air live and then be available
for streaming at classic1073.org
until the day before the next episode is broadcast. Episodes include
a production of a Williams one-act play, followed by commentary from
Williams scholar Thomas Mitchell. CurrentlyA
Perfect Analysis Given By A Parrot is streaming until August
21. Hello From Bertha will begin streaming on August 22.
For more information: www.twstl.org/something-spoken
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
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oral and written communications skills and would like to become
one of our volunteer reviewers, send an email describing your
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