Updated Monday, May 5, 2008
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Rue 13 presents the Alley Cat Revue Burlesque Show, Saint Louis' only weekly Neo-Burlesque Show, Saturdays at 10 PM. Rue 13 is at 1311 Washington. Tickets are available at the door. For more information, check out the web page: myspace.com/albinoalleycat.
The Alton Little Theater presents the comedy Auntie Mame opening on Friday [May 9] and running through May 18th. Performances take place at 2450 North Henry Street in Alton, IL. For ticket information, you may call 618-462-6562.
The Looking Glass Playhouse presents the musical Camelot, opening Thursday, May 8 and running through Sunday, May 18. Performances take place at 301 West St. Louis Street in Lebanon, Illinois. For more information, call 618-537-4962.
City Museum presents the City Circus Cabaret, featuring unusual variety acts in a circus cabaret setting, on the second Friday of every month from 9 PM to 1 AM on the third floor of City Museum, 701 N. 15th Street. (645-4445 or 231-CITY).
Fontbonne University presents The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) Thursday through Saturday at 8 PM and Sunday at 2 PM [May 8 - 11]. All performances will be held in the Black Box Theatre, on second floor of Southwest Hall on the Fontbonne University campus. For more information, you may call the box office at 314-889-1425.
The Florissant Fine Arts Council presents the Chinese acrobatic touring company The Golden Dragon Acrobats on Wednesday [May 7]. The show starts at 8 PM and will take place in the Florissant Civic Center Theatre. That's at Parker and Waterford in Florissant, Mo. For more information, call 314-921-5678.
Everydaycircus Inc. performs shows hourly from 11 AM to 4 PM each weekend at City Museum, 701 N. 15th St. Shows are FREE with regular museum admission. (645-4445 or 231-CITY)
The Black Rep presents the "rhapsodic blues tragedy" Harlem Duet by Djanet Sears, running through May 18th. Performances are Thursdays at 7 PM, Fridays at 8 PM, Saturdays at 3 and 8 PM and Sundays at 3 PM at the Grandel Theatre, 3610 Grandel Square in Grand Center. For ticket information, you may call 314-534-3810.
The Fox Theatre presents the musical Jersey Boys, based on the life and career of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, running through May 18th. Performances are Tuesdays through Fridays at 8 PM, Saturdays at 2 and 8 PM, and Sundays at 2 and 7:30 PM. The Fox is at 527 North Grand in Grand Center. For ticket information, you may call 314-534-1111.
HotCity Theatre presents the dark comedy Men With Clubs running through May 10th. Performances take place at the ArtLoft Theatre, 1529 Washington. For more information, you may call 314-289-4063.
The St. Louis Writers' Group presents a reading of The Mothers' Group, a new drama by Jo-el Henning Doty, on Monday [May 5] at 6:30 PM. The reading takes place at Big Daddy's, 1000 Sidney in St. Louis. For more information, call 314-772-0743.
The Curtain's Up Theater Company presents the musical Oliver! Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 PM and Sunday at 2 PM [May 8 - 11] in the Dunham Hall Theatre on the campus of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. For ticket information, you may call 618)-670-8030.
Kirkwood Theatre Guild presents the musical Pippin through May 11, with performances Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 PM, and on Sunday, May 11 at 2 PM. Pippin is Stephen Schwartz's magical musical about a young prince searching for the meaning of life. The show will be performed in the Robert G. Reim Theatre of the Kirkwood Community Center, 111 South Geyer Road. For more information call 314-821-9956.
The Cabaret at Savor presents St. Louis recording artist Renee Smith on Friday and Saturday [May 9, 10] at 8:30 PM in the Flim-Flam Room at Savor, 4356 Lindell in the Central West End. A three-course, fixed-price dinner is available prior to each show. For more information, you may call 314-531-0220 or go to licketytix.com on the web.
Historical characters come to life in the Missouri Historical Society's weekly program, Theatre in the Galleries. These 20 minute one or two-character plays are presented on Tuesdays at 2 pm. The History Museum is at Lindell and DeBaliviere in Forest Park. For more information, call 314-746-4599 or visit them on the web at mohistory.org.
ACT II Community Theater will hold auditions for Robert Fulghum's All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten on Wednesday and Thursday, May 14 & 15 at 7 PM. Roles are available for three women and three men, whose ages can vary from teens to sixties. Auditions will be conducted at the St. Peters Community and Arts Center, 1035 St. Peters-Howell Road. For more information, call 636-441-2508 or visit act2theater.com.
The Cabaret at Savor presents Cabaret in a Contemporary Idiom - Creating and Using Arrangements for New Work, a cabaret master class with Paula West and George Mesterhazy on Saturday, May 17, from noon to 3:30 PM. The class takes place at The Cabaret at Savor, 4356 Lindell in the Central West End. To sign up, call 314-725-4200, ext. 10.
Clayton Community Theatre will hold open auditions for The Miracle Worker on Sunday, May 18 at 2 PM, and on Tuesday, May 20 at 7 PM. Auditions, consisting of cold readings from the script, will be held in the Washington University South Campus Theater-that's at 6501 Clayton Road. For more information, call 314-721-9228 or visit placeseveryone.org.
Volunteer adult actors, both able-bodied and disabled, are wanted as ensemble members and alternates for The DisAbility Project. The DisAbility Project provides professional and non-professional actors the opportunity to act and create performance pieces. You "must be a team player, able to memorize lines, speak audibly, have reliable transportation and be available most Saturday mornings for the workshop and occasional evenings during the week for rehearsal and/or presentations". The Project rehearses most Saturday mornings from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm at the Washington University School of Medicine Program in Occupational Therapy building at 4444 Forest Park Parkway, in the Central West End, just west of Newstead. RSVP to Joan Lipkin of That Uppity Theatre Company at 314-534-1454 or jlipkin@aol.com. Please include your telephone number in your email.
First Run Theatre will hold auditions for its festival of short plays on Saturday [May 10] at 1 PM. Auditions will be in the Thomas Hunter Theatre, DeSmet Jesuit High School, 233 North New Ballas Road in Creve Coeur. For more information, call 314-352-5114 or visit firstruntheatre.com.
Hawthorne Players will hold open auditions for their summer musical, Oklahoma, on Monday and Tuesday, May 19 and 20 at 7 PM. Those considered for leading roles will be asked to perform cold readings from the script. Auditions will be in the Florissant Civic Center Theatre, Parker Road and Waterford Drive. For more information, visit hawthorneplayers.com.
Would you like to be on the radio? KDHX, 88.1 FM needs theatre reviewers. If you're 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 a letter describing your experience and interests to: Performing Arts, c/o FM88, 3504 Magnolia, St. Louis, MO 63118 or send e-mail to chuck@kdhx.org. In either case, please include a sample re view, approximately one page long, single-spaced.
New Jewish Theatre holds auditions by appointment only for its 2008 - 2009 season on Monday from 6:30 to 9:30 PM [May 5]. Actors should prepare one dramatic monologue not more than two minutes long. Auditions take place at the Jewish Community Center, Two Millstone Campus Drive in Creve Coeur. To schedule an appointment, call 314-442-3175.
The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis holds general auditions for its 2008 - 2009 season by appointment only on Monday [May 5] from 10 AM to 6 PM at the Rep Rehearsal Hall, 17 South Old Orchard in Webster Groves, MO. Actors will have three minutes to audition, which they can use to do any of the following: preform a monologue from a contemporary play, sing 32 bars of a musical theatre song, or prepare a scene to be read from any of the shows in the season. To schedule an audition or obtain a scene to read, call Katie at 314-968-4288 after 11:00 AM on Monday [April 21].
The Tin Ceiling is calling all aspiring playwrights to submit their brilliant creations to the 2008 Tin Ceiling New Play Competition. Contestants can choose to enter their play into the full-length play category or the one-act play category. To be eligible, contestants must submit an entry form, complete scripts and pay an entry fee by May 31, 2008. Winners will be announced in Fall 2008 and will be awarded cash prizes, plus have their plays taken to the stage by the mastermind crew and daredevil thespians of The Tin Ceiling! Visit www.tinceiling.org for more information.