SPRING 2008

2008 KEVIN KLINE AWARD WINNERS:
Outstanding New Play or Musical - DEMONS...AND OTHER BLUNT OBJECTS (Dan Rubin)

SPRING 2007

2007 KEVIN KLINE AWARD WINNERS:
Outstanding Ensemble in a Play - THE PROBE
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Play - Lavonne Byers, POLISH JOKE

WINTER 2006-07

2007 KEVIN KLINE AWARD NOMINATIONS:
Outstanding Production of a New Play - THE PROBE
Outstanding Set Design - Tim Poertner, THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT
Outstanding Ensemble in a Play - THE PROBE
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Play - Lavonne Byers, POLISH JOKE

FALL 2006

ORPHEUS DESCENDING

"About Ms. Parrone: She dances, she spits fire, and pleads and swoons with magnificent panache. It may be the best performance of the year." (KDHX)

"Julie Layton, who simply sizzles across the stage, is the wild, rich, hard-drinking young woman who has dealt with every man in town and now hangs out in New Orleans. She’s sexy, as always, and unbridled in her drive toward a hell of desperation. Chopper Leifheit is her brother, continually rescuing her and still suffering over an ill-fated affair with Lady, who pins him to the wall as if he were a butterfly in a gut-wrenching moment." (KWMU)

Tennessee Williams, too rich for low-cal modern tastes, is easy to satirize — and in Orpheus Descending he comes close to satirizing himself. But hang in there with him, as HotCity Theatre does with its steaming new production of the drama, and you start to wonder why we're starving ourselves. Packed with incident, throbbing characters and lines of real poetry, Orpheus Descending offers lush theatrical indulgence. 'Tis the season to dig in… and it's an exciting ride... Director Carolyne Hood deserves credit: She's put together the best big local cast in memory." (Judith Newmark, St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

THE PROBE

"It's refreshing for a theatrical production to come with a lengthy bibliography and to challenge the audience both artistically and intellectually." (Riverfront Times)

"The autumn season already has brought a wealth of good productions to stages in the St. Louis area, including The Probe, an original, smartly choreographed drama about Orson Welles. It was created by the new Theatre de la Belle Bete in collaboration with HotCity Theatre's experimental GreenHouse. The Probe closed Sunday, but the weeks ahead continue to hum with variety and promise. It's hard to remember a better time to buy a theater ticket in St. Louis." (Judith Newmark, St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

"Hot City and the Orange Girls are bringing us some dynamite theater in productions that opened over the weekend. Hot City’s Greenhouse Division, for experimental works, is displaying Probe, or An Inquiry Into the Meteoric Rise and Spectacular Fall of Orson Welles, at the Theatre at St. John’s through next Sunday. Orange Girls is producing Rona Munro’s Bold Girls at COCA, through Oct. 22… both are exciting, thought-provoking, different and well-acted… Chuck Harper wrote and directed The Probe, a multi-media work that uses Welles’ own movies, writing and interviews to hint at his story, and has drawn some fine work from his cast, with dance and attache-case tossing that is startling and a notable performance by Carrie Hegdahl as Welles… Mikey Thomas directed movement in startling style with splendid results." (KWMU)

SUMMER 2006

KDHX review of THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT

KWMU review of THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT

West End Word article on NEW PLAY FESTIVAL

KDHX review of DADDY'S DYIN' (WHO'S GOT THE WILL?)

SPRING 2006

KDHX review of POLISH JOKE

Riverfront Times review of POLISH JOKE

jewishinstlouis.org review of POLISH JOKE

Playback St. Louis review of POLISH JOKE

KDHX review of SKIN IN FLAMES

Riverfront Times review of SKIN IN FLAMES

Ladue News review of SKIN IN FLAMES

Playback St. Louis review of SKIN IN FLAMES

WINTER 2005-06

Talkin' Broadway review of CAROLINE, OR CHANGE

2006 KEVIN KLINE AWARD NOMINATIONS:
Outstanding Production of a Play - VALHALLA
Outstanding Production of a New Play - FAMOUS MONSTERS
Outstanding Lighting Design - Christopher Edwards, VALHALLA
Outstanding Sound Design - Nathan Ruyle, ADULT ENTERTAINMENT
Outstanding Ensemble in a Play - ADULT ENTERTAINMENT
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Play - Rory Lipide, VALHALLA

2004-05 ARCHIVE