Theater

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.

Ken Page, a St. Louis native who made it big on Broadway and became the voice of the Muny, died Monday.

Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis is presenting a trio of the playwright’s early one-act plays. They show the influence the city’s vibrant cinema culture of the 1930s had on the writer.

Kate Bergstrom, the new artistic director of Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, plans to lure new audiences while welcoming back theater supporters who’ve drifted away in recent years.

“As You Like It” will be onstage from May 29 through June 23.

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis has hired theater director Kate Bergstrom as its eighth artistic director. Bergstrom hopes to emphasize theater as a means to bring together people with different viewpoints.

Metro Theater Company has selected Jacqueline Thompson as its next artistic director. Thompson said she hopes to bring in more local talent to help produce, appear in and craft plays.

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis hasn’t quite reached the $2.5 million fundraising goal it set in October, but has raised enough funds to proceed with one additional production this season and make plans for its 2024-25 season.

The production of “Moby Dick” at the Repertory Theater of St. Louis dramatizes life on a whaling ship with the aid of aerial techniques borrowed from the circus arts.

Nominees for St. Louis’ best theater performances and productions of 2023 are out from the St. Louis Theater Circle. Winners will be unveiled in March.