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Arts For Life presents Diversity Is No Adversity,
a Zoom webinar about diversity
and inclusion in theatre, on Wednesday, September 23 at 7 pm.
Panelists are Tiélere Cheatem, Michelle Dillard, Karen Fulks, Carmen
García, Jon Hey and Shane Signorino with AFL Board of
Directors moderator Colin Dowd. "With the goal of improving
our performing arts community, we want to bring people together for
a series spotlighting diversity and inclusion in theater. Diversity
Is No Adversity intends to establish a dialogue on
systemic racism and how we can be inclusive and supportive as the
nation addresses justice and equality. How did we get here? Where do
we need to go? We will discuss these topics in three acts – a
monthly program of webinars to take place via the Zoom platform in
September, October and November." Attendees will be able to ask
questions through the chat feature. Afterwards, the webinars will be
available on the AFL You Tube Channel. The event is free and open to
the public. To register and receive
the link: us02web.zoom.us For more information: www.artsforlife.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."
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.
Ken Haller
The Blue Strawberry presents a return engagement of Ken
Haller's
The TV Show on Friday, September 25, at 8 pm. "
We’ve all been spending a lot of time getting reacquainted with
television this year. In “The TV Show” Ken Haller brings you songs
and stories from and about TV." 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.
The Blue Strawberry presents The Soul of Ray Charles
with Chuck Flowerson Saturday September 26, at 8
pm. "Chuck does right by Ray. Hear many of the greatest hits, and
some of the deeper cuts." The show features Charles Creath on piano
and Demarius Hicks on drums. 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 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
Metro Theatre Company presents After Dark: A Virtual
Gala on Thursday, September 24, from 7-8 pm. "Join
emcees Jamie McKittrick and Alicia Revé Like for an exciting
hour-long virtual celebration including appearances from past and
present Metro Theater Company artists, some fun video surprises, a
great silent auction, and highlights from our past, our present, and
a major announcement connected to our new strategic plan. All
proceeds will benefit our programming, including our in-school arts
integration residencies, violence prevention program, and theatrical
productions." For more information:
https://www.metroplays.org/after-dark
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.
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.
Solid Lines Productions presents That's What She Said
2020, a virtual comedy showcase, on Thursday, September
24, at 8 pm via a live video stream. "That means double the
entertainment is on the horizon on September 24th, 2020 at 8pm CST
when a group of talented STL-based female performers will take to a
virtual stage to showcase their humor-chops to the digital masses.
From stand-up to burlesque to improv, music and everything
in-between; the 1.5 hour event aims to challenge many of the
preconceived notions about the status of the theatre industry in St.
Louis in 2020." For more information: www.solidlinesproductions.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. Mister Paradise will air on Thursday,
September 24th, at 10 am and will then be available for streaming at
the Classic 107.3 web site until October 2. For more information: www.twstl.org/something-spoken
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.
