Theater

Few live venues still require attendees to mask or show proof of vaccination from night to night, but some artists do still require the precautions.

The artist collective Everything Is Terrible! splices, edits and stitches old videos into mesmerizing new films that defy simple description. Their latest, “Kids Klub!” comes to Off Broadway on March 11.

This is the first St. Louis production of “Last Stop on Market Street,” an upbeat musical based on the popular children’s book by Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson.

Arts groups eye a return to the stage once the omicron surge subsides.

Kwofe Coleman, a Muny veteran who has held various leadership roles for 13 years, wants to see more diversity onstage, backstage and in the audience.

As St. Louis artists and arts organizations worked through 2021, they improvised their way past roadblocks created by the coronavirus pandemic. St. Louis Public Radio’s Jeremy Goodwin and Chad Davis spoke with artists and arts leaders about how the pandemic continued to affect their work this year, and how they’re finding a way forward.

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Metro Theatre Company and the Black Rep are among the 16 organizations that will require patrons, staff members and artists to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative coronavirus test.

A new production of "The Glass Menagerie" is being staged on the grounds of the Westminster Place apartment building where playwright Tennessee Williams once lived. Carrie Houk and Brian Hohlfeld share the details on "St. Louis on the Air."

During a 33-year tenure as artistic director of the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Steven Woolf helped boost the theater's national reputation.

Playwright Nancy Bell set her radio play about a fascist regime in an alternate reality, but she took inspiration from recent American history. "SHE" tells the story of an unnamed fascist leader determined to stay on the airwaves as rebels threaten the radio station she controls.