It’s The Final Four!
We’re down to final four performances of Gertrude Stein and a Companion. Audiences are raving about this moving and poetic production by John Contini and starring Laura Ackermann and Susie Wall. Once it’s gone, it’s gone forever. Share the magic by booking your seats today! Performances are Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. with […]
Congratulations to John Contini, Outstanding Director-Comedy!
Winner 2015 St. Louis Theater Circle Award for Outstanding Director-Comedy Bluff City Theater is pleased to congratulate John Contini who last night won the St. Louis Theater Circle Award for Outstanding Director in a Comedy for his direction of 2015’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Actors Studio St. Louis in 2015. In fact, the […]
Opening Tonight-Gertrude Stein and a Companion
Don’t Miss This Remarkable Production! Last night’s preview audience was treated to one of the most beautiful productions we have ever presented at Bluff City Theater. Performed on a mostly bare stage, Gertrude Stein and a Companion glides seamlessly back and forth through time using only pictures, props and language to transport the audience to a […]
Hurry- Preview Tonight. Opens Tomorrow!
Veteran St. Louis Actors Headline Gertrude Stein and a Companion! Award-winning director John Contini will bring his vision to Bluff City Theater beginning tomorrow when the curtain rises on Win Well’s masterpiece. Winner of Best Play when it premiered at the Edinburgh Festival, Gertrude Stein and a Companion went on to win multiple awards around the globe. Spanning 60 […]
It’s Voting Day! Gertrude Stein for President!
Why is it that in this epoch the only real literary thinking has been done by a woman? -Gertrude Stein Today is primary day in Missouri and we proclaim Friday Gertrude Stein Day! Discover the genius that was Gertrude Stein in Bluff City Theater’s production of Gertrude Stein and a Companion, second in our series […]
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Hurry! Gertrude Stein and a Companion Opens This Week!
“To have become a Founding Father of her century is her own reward for having long ago, and completely, dominated her language.” -Virgil Thomson on Gertrude Stein Bluff City Theater is proud to bring you this award-winning play about one of America’s most important literary pairs. Together, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas dominated […]
If you see only one play at BCT this year, make it this one…
It is very difficult now that everybody is accustomed to everything to give some idea of the kind of uneasiness one felt when one first looked at all these pictures on these walls. In those days there were pictures of all kinds there, the time had not yet come when there were only Cezannes, Renoirs, […]
Veteran St. Louis Actors Bring Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas to Life
When the curtain goes up on Bluff City Theater’s new production of Win Well’s award-winning play Gertrude Stein and a Companion, two of St. Louis most acclaimed actors will be on stage. Both Laura Ackermann and Susie Wall have extensive resumes at many of St. Louis’ leading theater companies, including The Muny, Stages St. Louis, The Rep, […]
Book Now for Gertrude Stein and a Companion
I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it, and Carl was one of the earliest ones that made me be certain that I was going to be. When I was around fourteen I used to love to say to myself those awful lines of George Eliot, […]