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Review: HAMILTON Returns to The Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis

Posted: April 19, 2022 at 7:30 am   /   Live Theater, Live Theater Reviews

Now playing through May 15. With the unfortunate delay of the 2020 Broadway Series, audiences in St. Louis were forced to “wait for it” a little longer – with the North American tour of Hamilton finally returning this month. Lin-Manuel Miranda reintroduced the world to Alexander Hamilton in 2015, with the show quickly becoming one […]

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Theatre Review: HAIRSPRAY at The Fabulous Fox

Posted: April 8, 2022 at 10:12 am   /   Live Theater, Live Theater Reviews

You can’t stop the FUN at Hairspray, currently playing The Fabulous Fox through April 9. In the hilarious and heartwarming musical, Tracy Turnblad (NIKI METCALF) – a high schooler in the early ’60s – would love nothing more than to be one of the dancers on “The Corny Collins Show” (think “American Bandstand”). Although her […]

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Preview: Rupi Kaur Coming to Stifel Theatre on May 16

Posted: March 29, 2022 at 10:52 am   /   Live Theater

Rupi Kaur – author, poet, illustrator, and photographer whose collection of works (Milk and Honey, The Sun and Her Flowers, and Home Body) have topped the bestseller charts – will be performing in St. Louis on May 16 at Stifel Theatre. With her work being a collection of poetry and images, Kaur has made monumental […]

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Review: MY FAIR LADY at The Fabulous Fox Theatre

Posted: March 24, 2022 at 11:46 am   /   Live Theater, Live Theater Reviews

The national tour of Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady, revived by Lincoln Center Theater in 2018, is now playing The Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis through April 3. The musical, adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, hit Broadway in 1956 starring Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison – winning six Tony Awards (including Best […]

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Review: CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Is Fun Treat at The Fox

Posted: March 10, 2022 at 5:37 pm   /   Live Theater, Live Theater Reviews

Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the beloved children’s book that spawned two feature-length films (with a new one on the way), is now a musical currently touring the country. The new stage adaptation brings the novel to life with songs from the 1971 classic starring Gene Wilder (“The Candy Man,” “I’ve Got a […]

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Theatre Review: THE PROM Has Audiences Dancing at The Fabulous Fox

Posted: February 1, 2022 at 9:40 am   /   Live Theater, Live Theater Reviews

Being a kid is tough enough with trying to figure out who you are and what you want to do with the rest of your life. Throw in your peers looking at you differently, and a closed-minded community that wants to stop a person from just being themselves, and navigating high school just got even […]

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Review: BEYOND VAN GOGH at Saint Louis Galleria

Posted: November 24, 2021 at 3:55 pm   /   Live Theater, St. Louis Events

Although he did not achieve great success during his lifetime, Vincent Van Gogh’s popularity became unparalleled in the decades after his death.  Since his death in relative poverty in 1890, his works are now worth millions and featured in museums, private collections, and exhibitions around the world and Immortalized in popular culture through prints, posters, […]

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Theatre Review: PRETTY WOMAN Kicks Off 2021-2022 Broadway Series at The Fabulous Fox

Posted: November 19, 2021 at 8:33 am   /   Live Theater

Musical theatre has found its way back to The Fabulous Fox Theatre, kicking off the 2021-2022 U.S. Bank Broadway Series with Pretty Woman: The Musical. Based on the hit 1990 film directed by Garry Marshall and written by J. F. Lawton, the story follows Vivian (Olivia Valli) – a prostitute working in Hollywood who makes […]

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Theatre Review: New Line Opens 30th Season With THE STORY OF MY LIFE

Posted: October 7, 2021 at 1:31 pm   /   Live Theater, Live Theater Reviews

“Write what you know.” That’s a quote attributed to Mark Twain, and also advice author Thomas Weaver – one of two main characters in The Story of My Life – keeps telling himself. It sounds easy enough… and logical. But isn’t it true that what we know changes over time? Not just the facts we […]

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Theatre Review: JERSEY BOYS Offers Night to Remember at Stages St. Louis

Posted: October 4, 2021 at 3:06 pm   /   Live Theater, Live Theater Reviews

“Oh, what a night!” That’s what audiences leaving the closing show of Stages St. Louis’ 2021 Season will be saying after experiencing one of the most entertaining modern musicals out there. With performances now through October 24 at The Ross Family Theatre at the Kirkwood Performing Arts Center, the music of Frankie Valli and The […]

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