A meditation on dreams, ambition, and the price of spectacle. Reviewed by Adam Josephs, Out in STL May 2025, Lincoln Center Theater – Vivian Beaumont Theater The secret to great performance art is that it makes you care about the characters, no matter how abstract or unconventional. Lincoln Center’s revival of Floyd Collins Hooks you…
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Review: Real Women Have Curves
Real Women Have Curves is fun. It’s fresh. Everyone on stage is having a great time, and that joy is infectious. The show has no shame about its two major themes: first, that beautiful women often have curves, and second, the immigrant story, specifically the struggle of Latino immigrants living without regular status. In fact,…
Tony Winner: The Spy Who Sang to Me
A brisk, brainy WWII caper with more narrative density than emotional depth. Operation Mincemeat plays like the fever dream of a pub crawl among history nerds. The kind of night that ends with someone pounding out a patter song about Allied disinformation campaigns while the rest harmonize over pints. The result is a clever, chaotic…
Social Justice Shorts 2025, Presented by Bread & Roses Missouri & A Call to Conscience Interactive Theater for Social Change
Bread and Roses Missouri and A Call to Conscience Interactive Theater for Social Change proudly present Social Justice Shorts 2025, a dynamic festival of short plays running June 6–8 at Metro Theatre Company. Building on the success of last year’s inaugural festival, this partnership brings together two organizations deeply rooted in using the arts to…