Theater

"Uppity" is a word with a history of keeping women and minorities "in their place." But when Joan Lipkin named her theater company in 1989, she showed…

What’s it like to have a mother whose seven-foot-tongue slices your arm (eight stitches!) and a wife who greets your boss in thigh-high boots and…

Updated 6/8/2015: On Sunday night, “Fun Home," which was produced by St. Louis-based Fox Theatricals, took home five Tony awards, including the Tony for…

Drama, passion and war are all part of this year’s Shakespeare Festival in Forest Park, as they have often been since 1997.What’s new this summer is the…

St. Louis’s Anna Skidis is an acclaimed actor and singer. She’s also a genius.Skidis, 28, is obviously smart. But "genius" is what they call employees of…

A great dichotomy surrounds the idea of women and friendship. “I just love her to death,” one might say. “But I hate her for being so…

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter,” poet Khalil Gibran wrote. Nowhere is laughter between companions more important than in the Tony…

Since 2002, the Visionary Awards have honored 68 St. Louis-area women for contributions to the arts, but this year's list includes a first.Shualee Cook,…

Missouri’s next gubernatorial election is a year and a half away, but a St. Louis play gets a rolling jump-start on the campaign.The OnSite Theatre…

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis was the biggest winner at Monday night's local Theater Circle Awards.The Rep won nine awards, overall, more than any…