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Performing arts organizations in St. Louis are finding different answers to the question of how to stage in-person shows safely during the coronavirus pandemic. As spring weather makes outdoor performances more feasible, event producers make indoor spaces safer, and more people receive the COVID-19 vaccine, more organizations are deciding that the show will once again go on.
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St. Louis Shakespeare Festival eyes a June 2 return to Forest Park for its first production of "King Lear," after canceling its 2020 show because of the coronavirus. The cast is composed entirely of artists of color.
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Metro Theater's "Jacked!" production incorporates storytelling, poetry and hip-hop to spread an age-appropriate message about substance abuse and its effects on the community.
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Arts organizations in the St. Louis region will soon be able to apply for some of the $15 billion in grants Congress approved for coronavirus pandemic relief.
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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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Golden Globe-winning actress Regina Taylor kicked off her tenure as the Rep's playwright-in-residence with "Love and Kindness in the Time of Quarantine," a compilation of monologues and songs addressing life in a period of social distancing.
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Longtime Muny leader Dennis Reagan will step down in 2022. One of the longest-serving arts leaders in the region, Reagan began his affiliation with the Muny as a teenager on the cleanup crew.
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Theater is back on a St. Louis stage this month — and for the first time since the region shut down in March, it’ll be indoors and with an in-person audience. The production: a remounting of Eric Bogosian’s “Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll” by the Midnight Company.
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Playwright Melda Beaty's "Coconut Cake" and "Front Porch Society" showcase the culture and concerns of older Black Americans.
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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.”