Performing Arts Review Archives

These reviews are no longer current (the shows have closed or the tours have ended) but I'm leaving them here for anyone interested in commentary on the plays themselves or the performers in them.

Last revision: Saturday, March 15, 2008

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - The Fox Theatre [through 5/20/2007]
42nd Street - Fox Theatre [3/4 - 3/16/2003]
Aida - Fox Theatre [through 5/6/2001]
Ain't Misbehavin' - St. Louis Black Repertory Company [through 3/5/2000]
All a Woman Needs: Virginia Woolf - Historyonics Theatre Company [through 4/13/2003]
Angels in America - Fox Theatre (1/96)
Craig Rubano: At Long Last Love - the Music and Lyrics of Cole Porter - The Cabaret at Savor [through 10/7/2006]
Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano: Autumn Leaves - Grand Center Cabaret Series [through 9/18/2005]
The film version of The Avengers (released 8/1998)
Liz Callaway and Jason Graae in Backstage Broadway Buddies - Edison Theatre Ovations! Series [1/15/2005]
Beauty and the Beast - Fox Theatre (2/96)
Beauty and the Beast - Fox Theatre [through 10/22/2000]
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas - Fox Theatre [through 2/25/2001]
The tour of Big - Fox Theatre (10/1997)
Blast! - Fox Theatre [through 2/9/2003]
Blood Brothers with Petula Clark - Fox Theatre (1/95)
Sarah Brightman: La Luna - Fox Theatre [3/12/2001]
Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk on tour [1/1999]
Carousel (5/96)
Change Partners: Life's a Dance - Craig Rubano at the Grand Center Cabaret [through 11/14/2004]
Chicago (3/1998)
The Civil War - Fox Theatre [through 3/25/3001]
Completely Hollywood (abridged) - Repertory Theatre of St. Louis Studio [through 11/13/2005]
Paula West: Come What May - Grandel Theatre Cabaret [through 10/20/2002]
Come on and Hear - the Love Story of Irving Berlin - KT Sullivan and Mark Nadler at the Grand Center Cabaret [through 12/5/2004]
The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) (3/1998)
Contact - Fox Theatre [through 11/4/2001]
Copacabana - Fox Theatre [through 4/8/2001]
Copenhagen - Laguna Playhouse touring company [4/8/2002]
Crazy for You (4/95)
Damn Yankees at the Muny [through 8/9/1998]
Jeff Harnar: Dancing in the Dark - Grand Center Cabaret [through 10/23/2005]
Death of a Salesman - the 1999 Broadway production at the Fox Theatre [through 11/19/2000]
David Copperfield's Dreams and Nightmares tour (4/1998)
David Copperfield's Journey of a Lifetime at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis [April 7 - 9, 2000]
David Copperfield: Portal - Fox Theatre [4/19 - 21/2002]
Delirium - Cirque du Soleil at the Savvis Center [5/12 - 5/13/2006]
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - The Fox Theatre [through 4/8/2007]
Dralion - Cirque du Soliel at the Highlands in St. Louis [through 9/14/2003]
An Evening With Steve Ross - Chez Leon [through 11/5/2005]
Klea Blackhurst in Everything the Traffic Will Allow - Grandel Theatre Cabaret Series [through 11/16/2002]
Karen Akers in Feels Like Home - Grandel Theatre Cabaret Series [through 10/19/2003]
The Full Monty - Fox Theatre [through 4/27/2003]
Glen or Glenda - Live! - The St. Louis Shakespeare Company's Magic Smoking Monkey Theatre (4/96)
Hairspray - Fox Theatre [through 3/21/2004]
Hello, Dolly - Fox Theatre (4/95)
Here's to Life - Kitty Carlisle Hart at the Cabaret in the Savoy Room [10/19 - 10/22/2006]
H.M.S. Pinafore - The New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players [3/19/2005]
Homage - Circus Flora [through 6/24/2006]
How to Suceed in Business Without Really Trying, - Fox Theatre (8/96)
Mary Cleere Haran: I Love Lyrics - The Cabaret at Savor [through 11/11/2006]
Jekyll and Hyde - Fox Theatre (1/96)
Jesus Christ Superstar - Fox Theatre [through 6/6/2004]
Jessica Molaskey - The Cabaret in the Savoy Room [12/7 - 12/10/2006]
The King and I - Fox Theatre (7/1998)
Kiss Me, Kate - Fox Theatre [through 12/16/2001]
The Last Five Years - Repertory Theatre of St. Louis Studio [through 4/18/2004]
Life: A Guide for the Perplexed - The Flying Karamazov Brothers at the Edison Theatre [10/13 - 14/2006]
The Light in the Piazza - Fox Theatre [through 2/11/2007]
The Lion King - Fox Theatre [through 10/12/2003]
A Little Romance - Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano at The Cabaret at Savor [through 4/26 - 4/29/2007]
Little Women - Fox Broadway Series [through 3/5/2006]
Steve Ross - Love and Laughter, Part 1 - Grandel Theatre Cabaret [through 12/9/2001]
Made for Movies - A Hollywood Songbook with Eric Comstock, Bill Henderson and Dena DeRose - Grandel Cabaret [through 12/14/2003]
Man of La Mancha (with John Cullum) at the Muny in St. Louis (4/95)
Mamma Mia! - Fox Theatre [through 8/25/2002]
Men on the Take - Repertory Theatre of St. Louis [through 4/14/2002]
Sandra Reaves Phillips: Me, Myself and You - Grand Center Cabaret [through 12/4/2005]
Les Misérables - Fox Broadway Series [through 7/23/2006]
Miss Saigon (10/96)
Joan Morris and Bill Bolcom in Concert (5/95)
Monty Python's Spamalot - Fox Theatre [through 11/26/2006]
Movin' Out - Fox Theatre [through 5/9/2004]
The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber (the 1995 "Surender" Tour), with Sarah Brightman
A New York theater sampler [from 10/1998]
Les Grands Ballets Canadiens production of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker (12/1997)
Oliver! - Fox Theatre [through 2/22/2004]
Onegin - >The Stuttgart Ballet at the Fox Theatre [1/28, 1/29/2000]
Andrea Marcovicci in One Life to Live: A Celebration of Gertrude Lawrence - Grandel Theatre Cabaret Series [9/17 - 9/22/20020
On the Record - Fox Theatre [through 3/20/2005]
Opera Theatre of St. Louis productions:
- Armida (1995)
- Anna Karenina [through 6/21/2007]
- The Barber of Seville (1996)
- The Barber of Seville [through 6/24/2006]
- Beauty and the Beast (Zémire and Azor) [through 6/24/2005]
- La Belle Helene (1995)
- La Boheme [through 6/23/2001]
- Carmen [through 6/26/2004]
- Cavalleria Rusticana and Sister Angelica [through 6/27/2004]
- La Clemenza di Tito (1996)
- Cosi Fan Tutte (1997)
- Flight [through 6/27/2003]
- Gloriana [through 6/25/2005]
- The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein [through 6/23/2001]
- Hamlet [through 6/29/2002]
- Hansel and Gretel [through 6/24/2006]
- Hippolytus and Aricia [through 6/24/2001]
- Jane Eyre [through 6/16/2006]
- Loss of Eden [through 6/28/2002]
- Lucia di Lammermoor [through 6/30/2002]
- Madame Butterfly (1997)
- The Magic Flute [through 6/29/2002]
- The Merchant and the Pauper (1999)
- The Mikado [through 6/23/2007]
- Miss Havisham's Fire [through 6/21/2001]
- Nixon in China [through 6/26/2004]
- Orfeo (The Tale of Orpheus) (1997)
- Othello (1999)
- The Pearl Fishers (1999)
- I Puritani [through 6/24/2007]
- The Rape of Lucretia (1996)
- La Rondine (American premiere of the final 1921 version) (1996)
- The Secret Marriage [through 6/25/2004]
- Street Scene [through 6/25/2006]
- The Tale of Genji [through 6/25/2000]
- Thaïs [through 6/28/2003]
- Tosca (1995)
- Tosca [through 6/28/2003]
- La Traviata [through 6/24/2000]
- La Traviata [through 6/23/2007]
- Transformations, based on poems by Anne Sexton (1997)
- Treemonisha [through 6/24/2000]
- The Woman at Otowi Crossing, a world premiere (1995)
The Passing Zone - Edison Theatre Ovations! Series [5/6 - 5/7/2005]
Paula West - The Cabaret at Savor [4/19 - 4/22/2007]
Phantom of the Opera (national tour #2) (8/95)
The 1998 tour of The Phantom of the Opera with Brad Little (9/1998)
A Picasso - Repertory Theatre of St. Louis Studio [through 11/14/2004]
The Steppenwolf Theater Company production of Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile (1/97)
Quidam - Cirque du Soleil at the UMB Bank Pavilion [through 10/22/2006]
The Radio City Christmas Spectacular Starring the Rockettes - Fox Theatre [through 12/31/2004]
The tour of Ragtime [11/1999]
The Scarlet Pimpernel - Fox Theatre [through 10/8/2000]
Sharps, Flats, and Accidentals with the Flying Karamazov Brothers (3/1998)
Spencer Day - The Cabaret in The Savoy Room [1/18 - 1/21/2007]
Riverdance - The Show on a national tour (1/1998)
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra - 11/8/2002 [Music of Tchaikovsky, Hersch and Brahms]
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra - 9/12/2003 [music of Korngold, Rózsa and Orff]
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra - 9/19/2003 [music of Britten, Haydn and Tchaikovsky]
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra - 9/27/2003 [music of Richard Strauss, Chopin, Michael Daugherty and Ravel]
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra - 10/10/2003 [music of Dukas, Barber and Mussorgsky]
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra - 4/16/2004 [Mahler: Symphony No. 2 ("Resurrection")]
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, 10/8/2005 - music of Mendelssohn, Busoni, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, 2/16/2007 - Music of Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakov and Scriabin
Jeff Harnar in Sammy Cahn: All the Way - Grandel Theatre Cabaret Series [through 9/21/2003]
September Songs: the Music of Wilder, Weill and Warren - Wesla Whitfield at the Grand Center Cabaret [through 10/24/2004]
Show Boat with Len Cariou and Cloris Leachman - Fox Theatre (7/1997)
The Lieber and Stoller review Smokey Joe's Cafe (5/1997)
Andrea Marcovicci in So in Love - The Love Songs of Cole Porter - Grandel Theatre Cabaret Series [through 11/16/2003]
Judy Kaye: Solo - Grandel Theatre Cabaret [through 11/11/2001]
The tour of Sunset Boulevard with Linda Balgord (3/97)
The Syringa Tree - Repertory Theatre of St. Louis Studio [through 4/19/2003]
Take Me Out - Repertory Theatre of St. Louis [through 10/9/2005]
The Tale of the Allergist's Wife - Fox Theatre [through 9/29/2002]
Titanic - Fox Theatre [9/1999]
Thoroughly Modern Millie - Fox Theatre [through 12/14/2003]
Steve Ross: Travels With My Piano - The Cabaret at Savor [through 11/4/2006]
Sally Mayes: The Story Hour - Cabaret at the Savoy Room [3/22 - 3/25/2007]
Tzigan - a Circus Flora Adventure - Circus Flora [through 6/26/2005]
The tour of Victor/Victoria with Toni Tennille [through 6/13/1999]
West Side Story at the Muny in St. Louis (8/95)
West Side Story - national tour (9/96)
Wicked - Fox Broadway Series [through 12/4/2005]
Valerie Lemon in With a Song in My Heart: the Jane Froman Songbook - Grand Center Cabaret [through 11/13/2005]