This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Aug. 25, 2009 - That Uppity Theatre CompanyArtistic Director Joan Lipkin likes to joke that this year's birthday made her a highway. "I'm 55," she noted. If that's the case, then her theater company is half of another popular St. Louis concrete stretch: 40.
Showing that the stage may be mightier than the sword or the pen, Lipkin's company has for 20 years merged theater with social justice, concentrating on disability, reproductive rights, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues and representation.