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Take Ten with Christine Brewer

Lynn Venhaus July 13, 2019 No Comments Candide Christine Brewer Lynn Venhaus McKendree University Opera Theatre of St. Louis Ross Brewer Scott Schoonover Union Avenue Opera

By Lynn Venhaus Managing Editor BBC Music Magazine named her one of the 20 greatest sopranos of…

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Features Go See A Play

Go See a Play! What’s Happening July 12 – 17

Lynn Venhaus July 12, 2019 No Comments Actors Attic Candide Chitty Chitty Bang Bang For Colored Girls Who Have COnsidered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf Independent Theater Company Insight Theatre Company LaBute New Theater Festival Mamma Mia!Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella SIUE Summer Theatre St. Louis Actors' Studio Take Two Productions The Muny The Revolutionists Union Avenue Opera

By Lynn Venhaus Managing Editor Women are front and center this week – Independent Theatre Company opens…

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Professional Theatre Reviews

Union Avenue Opera Puts Up a Can-do ‘Candide’

Lynn Venhaus July 10, 2019 No Comments Annamaria Pileggi Brooklyn Snow C Otis Sweezey Candide CB Adams Charlie Tingen Christine Brewer Dorothy Parker Gina Malone Greg Johnston Hugh Wheeler Jesse Darden John La Touche Leonard Bernstein Lillian Hellman Richard Wilber Scott Schoonover Stephen Sondheim Thomas Gunther Union Avenue Opera Voltaire

By CB AdamsContributing Writer The title Candide (music by Leonard Bernstein, book by Hugh Wheeler, after Voltaire)…

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Jesse Darden as Candide and Thomas Gunther. Photo by Dan Donovan.

Features Go See A Play

Go See a Play! What’s Happening July 5 – 10

Lynn Venhaus July 5, 2019 No Comments Candide Insight Theatre Company LaBute New Theater Festival Parade R-S Theatrics Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella St. Louis Actors' Studio The Muny The Revolutionists Union Avenue Opera

By Lynn Venhaus Managing Editor Got plans for the weekend? Despite a slowdown with the Independence Day…

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News Press Releases

Union Avenue Opera Presents ‘Arias in the Afternoon’ at Campbell House

Lynn Venhaus May 31, 2019 No Comments Aleksandar Dragojevic Arias in the Afternoon Campbell House Candide Clementine's Creamery Danielle Feinstein Emily Heyl Grace Fisher La boheme Liya Khaimova Madeleine Buckley Michael Hawkins Philip Touchette Union Avenue Opera

For seven years we’ve celebrated the beginning of summer in the beautiful garden at the Campbell House Museum and…

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News Press Releases

Union Avenue Opera Celebrates 25th Season

Lynn Venhaus May 22, 2019 No Comments Candide Christine Brewer Glory Denied La boheme Leonard Bernstein Pucchini Scott Schoonover Tom Cipullo Union Avenue Christian Church Union Avenue Opera Voltaire

Union Avenue Opera presents two company premieres in 2019 Christine Brewer returns to Union Avenue Opera for…

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News Press Releases

Union Avenue Opera’s Outreach Efforts Will Showcase in March 10 Recital

Lynn Venhaus March 3, 2019 2 Comments Alice Nelson Annamaria Pileggi Candide Christine Armistead Crescendo Debra Hillabrand Eric Kuhn Jennifer Medina Jon Garrett La boheme Marc Schapmann Martha Hart Nancy Mayo Noel Prince Sandra Geary Scott Schoonover Stella Markou Stephanie Tennill Union Avenue Opera

Union Avenue Opera’s University Artist Outreach program, Crescendo, will present a free recital on Sunday, March 10, at…

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Breaking News News

‘Evita,’ ‘Streetcar’ lead St. Louis Theater Circle nominations

Lynn Venhaus January 25, 2019 1 Comment Insight Theatre Company Max and Louie Productions Mustard Seed Theatre New Jewish Theatre New Line Theatre Opera Theatre of St. Louis R-S Theatrics Rebel and Misfits Productions SATE Shakespeare Festival St. Louis St. Louis Actors' Studio St. Louis Shakespeare St. Louis Theater Circle Stages St. Louis Stray Dog Theatre The Black Rep The Muny The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis Theatre Nuevo Union Avenue Opera Variety Theatre St. Louis West End Players Guild Winter Opera St. Louis

ST. LOUIS, January 25, 2019 — The musical Evita, which opened the 51st season of The Repertory…

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Union Avenue Opera Introduces New Fall Concert Series

Lynn Venhaus October 2, 2018 No Comments Alexandra LoBianco Anthony Heinemann Debra Hillebrand Gina Malone Jason Mallory Jeanine Garesche John and Judith MacDonald Leeann Schuering Magic Chef Mansion Manuele Kaymakanova Marlissa Hudson Nancy May Nikolas Wenzel Robert Souza Sandra Geary Tony and Melanie Fathman Union Avenue Opera

Union Avenue Opera’s new “Third Thursday” concert-series makes its debut this fall and takes place in some of…

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Bright Lights Columns

Bright Lights Column: Give My Regards to Broadway

Lynn Venhaus September 6, 2018 No Comments Adam Heller Armie Hammer Barbra Streisand Bess Moynihan Beth Leavel Chad Beguelin Debut Theatre Ellie Schwetye Funny Girl Jamie Lynn Eros Josh Charles Kate Bournstein Katy Keating Kranzberg Arts Foundation Kristen Strom LouFest Lynn Venhaus Mark Saunders Neil Simon Neil Simon Theatre No Exit Oklahoma!Orson Welles Paul Schneider Rachel Tibbetts Rita Hayworth Sarah Morris SATE Second Stage Shane Signorino Something Rotten!St. Clare of Assisi Church St. Louis Symphony Chorus Stages St. Louis Stephen Eros Stephen Payne Stifel Theatre Straight White Men The Prom The Sound of St. Louis Showcase Ty Dafoe Union Avenue Opera

Local actor-singer lands national tour, Tony-nominated local playwright ready for another Broadway go-round, managing editor Lynn Venhaus…

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