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For 25 years, Prison Performing Arts has given detainees in Missouri prisons the chance to act and star in theater productions. But what happens after they’re released? Two alumni members are taking their experiences to Greenfinch Theater & Dive in St. Louis with plays focused on what it's like to be home. -
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Incarcerated people can often feel forgotten by the world outside. A documentary film that screens at the St. Louis International Film Festival on… -
In 'Hip Hop Hamlet,' women prisoners express their humanity: 'I didn't feel like I was incarcerated'It’s opening night for “Hip Hop Hamlet” and more than 200 women dressed in baggy, khaki-colored clothes have packed into the gymnasium at the women’s… -
A creative collaboration between a nationally known playwright and a group of women incarcerated in Vandalia, Missouri, is bringing new voices and stories… -
St. Louis’ Prison Performing Arts serves 1,000 inmates every year, some as actors, others as audience members. But leaving prison doesn’t have to mean… -
Updated September 1 with St. Louis on the Air remembrance –On Friday’s St. Louis on the Air, host Don Marsh discussed the life and legacy of Agnes Wilcox,… -
Gun violence is the result of a series of choices, some of them spur-of-the-moment, others made after much consideration.The vast majority of men and… -
A St. Louis-based organization called Prison Performing Arts (PPA) is taking a fresh approach in its 27-year-old effort to turn inmates into actors.The… -
For many who have died, the “good family man” description is draped upon them like an embroidered pall, often as much in the interest of being nice and… -
Agnes Wilcox founded Prison Performing Arts 23 years ago. Last year, she retired as director of the organization, which involves inmates and former…
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