“Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll” will open Oct. 29, with full COVID-19 mitigation policies in place. The popular adage that is often tossed around in show business, “the show must go on,” met its match this year as COVID-19 has practically shut down the arts and entertainment industries for months. Since we made the decision … Continue reading →1-act, 1-person production by The Midnight Company to open at The Kranzberg

Kranzberg Arts Foundation partners with Open Highway Music Festival for month-long brunch and live music series By Caitlin Lally Sundays in October are about to get a little louder in Grand Center. The sound of banjos strumming and voices harmonizing will fill the air outside The Grandel as the community gathers, safely, for brunch and … Continue reading →St. Louis’ music scene sees collaboration, opportunity amid COVID

While some may see wearing masks or standing six feet apart as hindrances to artmaking, one St. Louis theatre company has welcomed the new norms to reignite their production methods. After hosting virtual auditions, rehearsing for hours over Zoom, and then recording scenes in small physically-distanced groups, Ignite Theatre Company will present “A Chorus Line … Continue reading →Ignite Theatre Company produces first streamed musical amid pandemic

by Joe Hanrahan The selection of plays for a theatre group’s season is always an exciting, wildly hopeful, sometimes frustrating process. The scripts must play to a company’s strength, while often exploring new themes and production styles to encourage artistic growth. It has to take into account the appropriateness of available spaces for the plays … Continue reading →Hanrahan: Choosing Plays To Present — This Year’s Process And Challenge

“You’re going to have to bring your own popcorn for this one!” Reimagining what it looks like to connect with the community this year, Kranzberg Arts Foundation resident organization Circus Flora is planning to debut its Virtual Showcase on its website at 7 pm on Thursday, June 4 — the original opening night of their 34th … Continue reading →The show must go on: Circus Flora’s Virtual Showcase 

St. Louis-based Consuming Kinetics Dance Company will begin its 11th year May 1, so we checked in with Arica Brown, Founder/Artistic and Executive Director, to talk about the ups and downs the past decade and a year have brought for her and the resident organization. Like many of the Kranzberg Arts Foundation performing arts residents, CKDC … Continue reading →11 years of Consuming Kinetics Dance Company