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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.
L-R: Marty
Fox and Ken Haller
The Blue Strawberry presents an Ken Haller inWhen
I'm
66 on Saturday, October 31, at 8 pm. "Ken Haller is
another year older and perhaps even a little wiser! He returns to
the Blue Strawberry with his updated annual Halloween/Birthday
Show. Looking back on his life and looking forward to what’s ahead
through songs from Broadway and the Great American Songbook by
Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer, Lerner and Loewe, Ira Gershwin, Harold
Arlen, William Finn, and Stephen Sondheim among many others, Ken
creates “…a varied and neatly balanced song list, just enough patter
to let us know why the list made sense, and a perfect mix of the
mirthful and the moving… ingenious [and] emotionally compelling
[with] a heaping helping of humor!” (Chuck Lavazzi, KDHX)." The club is
operating under a "COVID careful" arrangement with restricted indoor
capacity and other precautions. The show is also available as a live
webcast. The Blue Strawberry is at 364 N. Boyle. For more
information: bluestrawberrystl.com.
The Fabulous Fox Theatre presents the return of its popular Ghost
Tours during October 26. Fox Ghost tours include both
Fox Theatre history provided by Fox tour guides and 'ghost' stories
from the St. Louis Paranormal Society following their investigation
and analysis of the theatre’s “hot spots” of paranormal activity.
Tours and will be limited to 15 people per departure time. In order
to provide the best possible safety measures for Fox guests and to
comply with the city health department requirements, the following
protocols will be in place. Tours will cover 3 levels of the
auditorium and the stage, but will not include the narrow
underground tunnels this year. Tours will move in one direction and
not cross paths with other tour groups. Tour participants will be
required to wear a mask and observe social distancing. Each tour
will be accompanied by a Fox tour guide and a monitor to assure
adherence to mask-wearing and social distancing. Hand sanitizer
stations will be available throughout the tour. For more
information: www.fabulousfox.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 Lemp Mansion Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre presents Death
of
a
Blackheart through November 7th. "Ahoy Matey! Join us
for an exciting evening of murder, mystery and pirates at the best
comedy dinner theater show in town. Don your favorite pirate gear
and join us on a high seas adventure fraught with peril! What part
will you play in this hilarious show full of fair maidens, lost
boys, rival pirates and wenches? Whichever character you acquire,
beware of that famous pirate Captain Jack Blackheart! Aye, he's a
scurvy seadog if my eye ever seed one! Gee, I hope no one kills him
off!" The Lemp Mansion is at 3322 DeMenil Place in south city. For
more information: www.lempmansion.com
And in
This Corner: Cassius Clay
Metro Theatre Company presents the streaming version of their
critically acclaimed 2016 production of And In This Corner:
Cassius Clay by Idris Goodwin for online classrooms,
homeschools, learning pods, and other educational settings. "And
In This Corner: Cassius Clay is the story of the young man who
would become Muhammad Ali. From his relationship with a white police
officer who introduced him to boxing as a kid in Jim Crow-era
Louisville to his gold medal-winning performance in the 1960 Rome
Olympics, Cassius holds onto the faith that his potential is
unlimited. But it is the friends from his childhood who are becoming
Freedom Riders who ultimately challenge him to understand that there
is more to life than personal success: he must use his gifts to work
for the good of his community." All tickets include a virtual lesson
plan connected to Missouri curricular standards, along with
additional resources to help address the topics of civil rights,
racial equity, and social justice. For more information: www.metroplays.org/virtual-field-trips.
Sex,
Drugs, Rock and Roll
The Midnight Company presents Eric Bogosian's one-actor show
Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll Thursdays through Saturdays
at 8 pm through November 7 and Sunday, November 8, at 2 pm. "Like
his
other one-man scripts, Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll
presents a menagerie of self-involved American (and one British)
men - ranging from a homeless street person to a fading rock
star to a self-help guru to a Hollywood producer to a real estate
agent and more - each convinced they are in control of their (and
others’) lives, but caught up in the midst of the explosive mania
and/or quiet desperation that our modern age breeds. The production
has undergone extensive planning due to COVID-19 and The Midnight
Company has received certification through Missouri ArtSafe, a
program led by Missouri Arts Council." For more information: midnightcompany.com.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Stray Dog Theatre presents POEtober, a series
of online streamed readings of stories by Edgar Allan Poe. The
stories are The Raven read by Gerry Love, Murders in the
Rue Morgue read by Laura Kyro, and The Tell-Tale Heart
read by David Wassilak. All the readings will be available through
the end of October at the company's web site at https://www.straydogtheatre.org.
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
sample review of something you've seen recently.
