You can spend a truckload of money on sets and costumes. You can thrill viewers with showy lighting effects. But at its core, memorable theater is about performance. This season the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis delivered vital performances in spades. There was Lori Wilner's hardened mother in Brighton Beach Memoirs, the beautifully calibrated work of Mark Anderson Phillips in Clybourne Park, the scorching performance by Denise Cormier as the desperate protagonist in David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People and the haunting poignancy of Rita Gardner's headstrong grandmother in 4000 Miles. Don't forget that the entire ensemble (led by the deft John Scherer) turned The Foreigner into a breezy comic romp. The Rep is the place to see actors young and old strutting their stuff. In addition to staging nine major productions at the Loretto-Hilton and touring the Imaginary Theatre Company to area schools, the Rep presented its second season of new play readings and was the official presenter of War Horse at the Fox Theatre. Not content to rest on seniority, the Rep seems to be more ambitious than ever — and those ambitions are resulting in consistently high-quality theater.
St. Louis Actors' Studio
| Sep 25, 2014
The Black Rep
| Sep 22, 2011
Upstream Theater
| Sep 29, 2010
Upstream Theater
| Sep 30, 2009
Circus Flora
| Sep 24, 2008
Rep Studio
| Sep 26, 2007
Rep Studio
| Sep 27, 2006
The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis
| Sep 29, 2005
HotHouse Theatre Company
| Sep 29, 2004
HotHouse Theatre Company
| Sep 29, 2004
HotHouse Theatre Company
| Sep 24, 2003
HotHouse Theatre Company
| Sep 24, 2003
St. Louis Black Repertory Company
| Sep 25, 2002
St. Louis Black Repertory Company
| Sep 25, 2002