Auditions Notice-Summer Season 2016
Friday March 25-Hannibal All lead and featured roles, Equity and non-Equity Sunday March 27-St. Louis Lead roles, Equity and non-Equity This is an open audition call for our upcoming Summer Season Alice in Wonderland (Prince Street Players Version) We’ve been receiving calls for quite some time about auditions for our upcoming summer season and this […]
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 […]
New Acting Classes Starting Soon for Teens and Adults
Bluff City Theater Academy is pleased to announce two new programs starting soon for the budding performer in all of us. Starting Thursday March 24, 6:30-8p.m. Improv Acting for Teens 6 weeks for $80 Have you ever felt uncomfortable speaking in public? Do you feel self-conscious when called upon to present or lead a discussion? […]
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, […]
Coming Soon-Gertrude Stein and a Companion
Gertrude Stein currently is not merely a legend, but also a whole folklore, a subject for an epic poem…* *Carl Von Vechten Before Gloria Steinam, two American women blazed a trail for feminism as the Grand Dames of the Avant-Garde artistic movement from their salon in Paris. For more than 30 years, Gertrude Stein and Alice […]
Award-Winning St. Louis Director Brings Award-Winning Play to Bluff City Theater
John Contini will direct Win Wells’ award-winning play Gertrude Stein and a Companion at Bluff City Theater from March 18th-26th, 2016. Gertrude Stein and a Companion won Best Play when it debuted at the Edinburgh Festival and went on to win numerous awards before being made into a TV movie in 1989. Recently nominated as Outstanding […]
Who Was Gertrude Stein?
Find out when we present Gertrude Stein and a Companion March 18th-26th at Bluff City Theater Although they both grew up in California Stein and Alice B. Toklas met in Paris in 1907 where they presided, together, over their salon at 27 Rue de Fleurus for the next three decades. Countless luminaries of the time passed […]