Audition Notice-2020 Season
Bluff City Theater today announced that the 2020 Auditions Will be Held at The Zack Theater 3224 Locust, St. Louis. Saturday, January 18th 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Bluff City Theater will be holding open auditions for 3 of 4 plays in the 2020 Season this January. Equity and non-equity actors are welcome to audition. Following are […]
Madam-The Musical Features an Array of Historical Female Characters
While researching the background for his new musical Madam, based loosely on Eliza Haycraft, the infamous St. Louis Madam who died in 1871 as the richest woman in Missouri, playwright Colin Haycraft came across remarkable stories of women who bucked the hierarchy of male dominance that held women down and blocked them from fulfilling their […]
Reputation! Reputation! Reputation!
I have lost my reputation! Good […]
Today is Monday March 25th…You Have Four Chances Left!
Last week, the curtain rose on another season at Bluff City Theater with our debut of A. S. Freeman’s powerful production of David Stanley Ford’s The Interrogation of Nathan Hale. History has a way of over-simplifying events and presenting complicated and messy affairs as summary headlines (#Nathanhalehero). But history is never simple and the […]
Are You A Fan of American History?
History buffs are going to love The Interrogation of Nathan Hale by Captain John Montresor. Based on real-life events, David Stanley Ford’s thoughtful and intense script captures the final hours of Nathan Hale before he is executed as the first spy in the service of America. Through the eyes of young Hale and Montresor, a […]
NATHAN HALE-OUR FIRST REHEARSAL!
Rehearsals started on a brand new Bluff City Theater season this past Tuesday in St. Louis. Director A.S. (Alex) Freeman brought the creative team together for some “table work” on The Interrogation of Nathan Hale. This is a first read-through of the script and discussion about the characters, themes and ideas the actors will be […]
The Greatest Lesson in History Retold
A wise man once said that he who fails to remember history is deemed to repeat it… And that’s the core message in Bluff City Theater’s final play in a 2018 Season dedicated to the theme of Faith. The Cotton Patch Gospel by Tom Key and Russell Treyz, with music by Harry Chapin, is based […]
Welcome Back to the Raft, Tom and Huck!
At the end of his classic novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain wrote: So endeth this chronicle. It being strictly a history of a BOY, it must stop here; the story could not go much further without becoming the history of a MAN. When one writes a novel about grown people, he […]