Upcoming Events
Something's Coming: A Cabaret Performance
Stray Dog Theatre (SDT) is producing two musicals in the 2008-09 Season. To meet and hear featured members of the casts perform songs of their own choosing, don't miss... "SOMETHING'S COMING: A CABARET PERFORMANCE. The evening includes a variety of great songs featuring cast members from upcoming shows. Musical Director David Horstman accompanies singers Jessica Bartz, Khnemu Menu-Ra, Jeffrey Pruett, Deborah Sharn, Leslie Sikes, Joel Snider, Julie Venegoni, and Jeffrey Wright. Saint Louis favorite Edward Coffield serves as emcee.
PERFORMANCE
August 2, 2008
Performance Time: 8pm
For more information please visit www.straydogtheatre.org
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The Last Five Years
A contemporary song-cycle musical that ingeniously chronicles the five year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up... or from break-up to meeting, depending on how you look at it. Written by Jason Robert Brown (Parade, Songs For A New World), The Last Five Years is an intensely personal look at the relationship between a writer and an actress told from both points of view.
PERFORMANCES
August 7,8, & 9
Performance Times: 8:00 PM
Call: 314-805-3813 for Tickets
All Tickets: $8.00 Cash at the door or visit Ticket Leap
Stray Dog Theatre presents
Regrets Only by Paul Rudnick
This topical comedy of upper class manners explores the politics of marriage, friendships, and powers-that-be. In a Park Avenue penthouse high above Manhattan, we meet a prominent attorney, his deliriously social wife, and her closest friend, one of the world’s most successful fashion designers who has recently lost his gay lover. Add a daughter’s wedding plans, some major gowns, the President of the United States, and stir.
PERFORMANCES
September 11 – 13 / 18 – 20 / 25 – 27, 2008
Performance Times: Thursday – Saturday at 8pm.
The final Saturday performance is at 2pm and 8pm.
For more information please visit www.straydogtheatre.org
Stray Dog Theatre presents
Pippen by Robert O. Hirson (Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz)
The classic musical tale of one man’s search for the meaning of life is based on the story of Prince Pippin of France, son of King Charlemagne. Blessed with the gift of magic, the Leading Player narrates as Pippin endures trials of war, love, and politics before finding his true self among peasants far from the wealth and privilege of royalty. Popular songs include: “Magic to Do”, “Corner of the Sky”, “ No Time at All”, “Morning Glow”, and “I Guess I’ll Miss the Man”, among many others.
PERFORMANCES
October 23 – 25 / 30 – Nov.1 / Nov. 6- 8, 2008
Performance Times: Thursday – Saturday at 8pm.
The final Saturday performance is at 2pm and 8pm.
For more information please visit www.straydogtheatre.org
Stray Dog Theatre presents
Die! Mommie! Die! by Charles Busch
A campy melodrama evoking the 1960’s B-movie thrillers that featured aging cinematic icons like Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and Lana Turner. Faded pop singer Angela Arden is trapped in a corrosive marriage to film producer Sol Sussman. In pursuit of happiness with her young unemployed T.V. star lover, Angela schemes to murder her husband. A resentful daughter, an emotionally disturbed son, and a botched acid trip eventually expose all of Angela’s dark secrets.
PERFORMANCES
December 4 – 6 / 11 – 13 / 18 – 20, 2008
Performance Times: Thursday – Saturday at 8pm.
The final Saturday performance is at 2pm and 8pm.
For more information please visit www.straydogtheatre.org
Stray Dog Theatre presents
Songs for a New World
Music & Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
Lights come up on a single woman. Another woman and two men soon join her. Their hopes and dreams, fears and failures are those of explorers setting out to find new lands. Americans of yesterday, today, and tomorrow join hands across time in songs that define “a new world”.
PERFORMANCES
February 12 – 14 / 19 – 21 / 26 – 28, 2009
Performance Times: Thursday – Saturday at 8pm.
The final Saturday performance is at 2pm and 8pm.
For more information please visit www.straydogtheatre.org
SDT Studio Workshop Production
Sylvia by A.R. Gurney
Greg and Kate have moved to Manhattan after 22 years in the suburbs. One day, Greg brings home a dog he has found in the park - or that has found him - bearing only the name Sylvia on her tag. Marital strife ensues after the street-smart ‘Labradoodle’ offers Greg an escape from the frustrations of middle age.
PERFORMANCES
March 12 – 14 / 19 – 21 / 26 – 28, 2009
Performance Times: Thursday – Saturday at 8pm.
The final Saturday performance is at 2pm and 8pm.
For more information please visit www.straydogtheatre.org
Stray Dog Theatre presents
The Trial by Franz Kafka
(Adapted for the stage by Kenneth Albers)
An existential thriller based on the world-famous novel. Josef K awakens one morning to find the police in his room. He is arrested and put on trial for no known crime or reason. Thus begins a strange quest for truth. Disbelieving those who seem to know more than the authorities, Josef appears doomed to accept the verdict of an untouchable Court by an invisible Law without ever understanding why.
PERFORMANCES
April 23 – 25 / 30 – May 2 / May 7 – 9, 2009
Performance Times: Thursday – Saturday at 8pm.
The final Saturday performance is at 2pm and 8pm.
For more information please visit www.straydogtheatre.org
Stray Dog Theatre presents
Everything in the Garden by Edward Albee
(Adapted from an British play by Giles Cooper)
A dark comedy akin to “Desperate Housewives”. The only thing that seems to stand in the way of Jenny and Richard’s happiness is money. Enter the mysterious and fascinating Mrs. Toothe who offers Jenny the opportunity to acquire more cash than she and her husband have ever dreamed of. The means to this end is both horrifying and exhilarating.
PERFORMANCES
June 4 – 6 / 11 – 13 / 18 – 20, 2009
Performance Times: Thursday – Saturday at 8pm.
The final Saturday performance is at 2pm and 8pm.
For more information please visit www.straydogtheatre.org
