New Line Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri, is an alternative musical theatre company producing challenging, adult, politically and socially relevant works of musical theatre. The company was created in 1991 and produces world premieres like Love Kills, Johnny Appleweed, Woman with Pocketbook, She's Hideous, In the Blood, Attempting the Absurd, and The AmberKlavier; lesser known Broadway and off Broadway shows like High Fidelity, Passing Strange, bare, The Wild Party (Lippa musical), Floyd Collins, A New Brain, March of the Falsettos, Passion, The Robber Bridegroom, The Nervous Set, and Bat Boy; abstract musicals like Hair, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, and Songs for a New World; absurdist musicals like Reefer Madness, Attempting the Absurd, The Cradle Will Rock, and Anyone Can Whistle; concept musicals like Company, Assassins, Urinetown, Chicago, Sunday in the Park with George, and Cabaret; and reinterpretations of more mainstream works, like Evita, Man of La Mancha, Camelot, Pippin, Sweeney Todd, Grease, and Into the Woods.[1]
New Line claims to take philosophical and practical inspiration from theatre models of the 1960s, including Caffé Cino, Cafe LaMaMa ETC, Judson Poets Theatre, Joan Littlewood's People’s Theatre Workshop in London, and to a lesser extent from the Living Theatre, the Open Theatre, and various theatre collectives in the US and Europe.[2]
New Line has produced the first productions after Broadway of the musicals High Fidelity, Cry-Baby, and Hands on a Hardbody,[3] to enthusiastic reviews,[4] redeeming them after their brief New York runs, giving them new lives in regional theatre.[3][5]
In 2014, New Line Theatre was honored by the St. Louis Theater Circle with a special award for the company's body of work over the years,[6] and a feature story in American Theatre (magazine).[3]
Past Shows
- 1991–1992
- A Tribute to the Rock Musicals*
- Attempting the Absurd *
- 1992–1993
- Smokin’ Santa *
- A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim *
- 1993–1994
- 1994–1995
- 1995–1996
- 1996–1997
- 1997–1998
- 1998–1999
- 1999–2000
- 2000–2001
- 2001–2002
- 2002–2003
- 2003–2004
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- 2004–2005
- 2005–2006
- 2006–2007
- 2007–2008
- 2008–2009
- 2009–2010
- 2010–2011
- 2011–2012
- 2012-2013
- 2013-2014
- 2014-2015
- 2015-2016
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An asterisk denotes world premiere; a double-asterisk denotes regional premiere[7]
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