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Somi Kakoma discusses “Dreaming Zenzile,” the musical she wrote and starred in, which just had its world premiere at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. The play tells the story of South African singer Miriam Makeba.
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During a 33-year tenure as artistic director of the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Steven Woolf helped boost the theater's national reputation.
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The beloved children's book "The Snowy Day" is now “The Glowy Snowy Day,” a pandemic-safe drive-thru puppet experience. The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis' Adena Varner explained the impetus for this joint production with Kansas City-based StoneLion Puppet Theatre, which opens soon on the campus of Webster University.
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The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis has some big news today: an acclaimed new playwright in residence. She’s a Golden Globe award winner and a two time Emmy nominee. And thanks to a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, she’ll be working in St. Louis for the next three years.
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Monty Cole’s new play, "Black Like Me,” grapples with John Howard Griffin’s book of the same name, a memoir by a white journalist who posed as a Black man in the Deep South in 1959. Cole has said, “If the original book was an Idiot’s Guide to Being a Good Ally in 1961, the play is an Idiot’s Guide to Being a Good Ally in 2020.”
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The new artistic director of the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Hana Sharif, makes her directorial debut at the Rep this December with an adaption of…
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When the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis begins its season this week, it welcomes Hana Sharif as its first new artistic leader in decades. Sharif said…
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For more than 30 years, Steven Woolf has been at the heart of the Repertory Theater of St. Louis. Since taking the helm as artistic director in 1986,…
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Eva Perón, also known as Evita, was a first lady of Argentina and radio host adored by the “common man,” later becoming a cultural icon in her country.…
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The incoming artistic director of Repertory Theatre of St. Louis believes that growing audiences involves much more than simply issuing one-time…