This spring, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis will launch a new initiative with commissions of nationally recognized playwrights, culminating with three public readings. Make plans now to join us for these unique events and watch the creative process ignite.

Information

Tickets on sale January 1, 2012
For discounted tickets or Festival Plus tickets, please call The Box Office at (314) 968-4925.

Readings - $10 each ($8 for Studio Theatre Ticket Holders)
Festival Package - All 3 for $25
Festival Plus - $65 (includes a $45.00 ticket to The Invisible Hand)

Parking

The Ignite! New Play Festival is held at the Sally S. Levy Opera Center, located at 210 Hazel Avenue, directly behind the Loretto-Hilton Center. Click here for directions to the theatre. For Stagger Lee, simply park in the large parking garage located on Garden Avenue. For Gidion's Knot and Bicycle Girl, overflow parking is also available in the Nerinx lot across from the garage. Additionally, limited handicap parking will be available in the Opera Theatre lot off of Hazel Avenue.

Questions? Please call the Box Office at (314) 968-4925 for or more information.

All readings at the
Sally S. Levy Opera Center
210 Hazel Avenue • Webster Groves

Readings

Stagger Lee
Book by Derek McCulloch
Music by Stew and Heidi Rodewald
Lyrics by Derek McCulloch
Based on the Graphic Novel Stagger Lee
by Derek McCulloch and Shepherd Hendrix
Directed by Amanda Dehnert

Thursday, March 15 • 3:00 p.m.

On Christmas Eve 1895, shots rang out in a St. Louis bar. A hundred years and a thousand songs later, this ordinary murder has become a legend. This is the true story of what happened after Stagger Lee shot Billy Lyons.

Thank you to all who attended the reading of Stagger Lee!

Gidion’s Knot
by Johnna Adams
Directed by Seth Gordon

Tuesday, March 20 • 7:30 p.m.

Over the course of what is not your ordinary parent/teacher conference, Gidion’s mother and his emotionally overwhelmed teacher have a fraught conversation about Gidion. As his story is slowly uncovered, these two caring women come to terms with their excruciating feelings of culpability. An emotionally charged play by this year’s Princess Grace Award winner.

Thank you to all who attended the reading of Gidion's Knot!

Bicycle Girl
by Rogelio Martinez
Directed by Michelle Bossy

Wednesday, March 21 • 7:30 p.m.

In 1939 two girls from very different backgrounds travel across America by bicycle. Their destination is New York and the World’s Fair with its promise of revealing the World of Tomorrow. A lovingly told play about one world giving way to a new one, and two girls changing along with it.

Thank you to all who attended the reading of Bicycle Girl!