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Steve Callahan

A native Kansan I have a BA (Math and Theatre) and MA (Theatre). I was working on a PhD in Theatre when IBM sniffed my math background and lured me away with money enough to feed my (then two) children. Nevertheless I've been active in theatre all my life--having directed sixty-eight productions (everything from opera in Poughkeepsie to Mrozek in Woodstock to musical melodrama in Germany) and I've acted in ninety others. (As Daddy Warbucks in "Annie" I let 13 little girls shave my head.)  I've served on play-selection committees for several small companies for decades.  Now that I'm retired I don't have that eight-to-five distraction and can focus a bit more.  One of my plays, "The Counting of the Heads", was chosen to be presented at the Creative Nations First Storytellers Festival in Bouilder.
I've regularly reviewed theatre and opera in St. Louis for KDHX since 1991 and for BWW since 2014.






BWW Review: A Revised, Dream-Haunted HARVEY MILK  at Opera Theatre Of Saint Louis
BWW Review: A Revised, Dream-Haunted HARVEY MILK at Opera Theatre Of Saint Louis
June 13, 2022

A marvelously theatrical, dream-haunted evening tells of gay-rights activist Harvey Milk’s life and death.

BWW Review: AWAKENINGS at Opera Theatre Of Saint Louis
BWW Review: AWAKENINGS at Opera Theatre Of Saint Louis
June 8, 2022

Dr. Oliver Sacks' best seller becomes a fascinating opera with its world premiere at Opera Theatre Saint Louis. Read the review!

BWW Review: THE MAGIC FLUTE at Opera Theatre Of Saint Louis
BWW Review: THE MAGIC FLUTE at Opera Theatre Of Saint Louis
May 31, 2022

The marvelous Opera Theatre of Saint Louis continues its festival season with perhaps the most popular opera in the world—Mozart’s glorious The Magic Flute! Read our BWW critic's review.

BWW Review: CARMEN at Opera Theatre Of Saint Louis
BWW Review: CARMEN at Opera Theatre Of Saint Louis
May 23, 2022

Opera Theatre Saint Louis opens its 47th season with a splendid 'Carmen'. Read our BWW critic's review.

BWW Review: Brilliant Voices in MADAMA BUTTERFLY at Winter Opera in St. Louis
BWW Review: Brilliant Voices in MADAMA BUTTERFLY at Winter Opera in St. Louis
March 29, 2022

Such astonishing voices! Winter Opera, in St. Louis, has been offering splendid singers for 15 seasons now. But I've never heard more brilliant voices than those flourished by the cast in Winter Opera's latest production, Giacomo Puccini's MADAMA BUTTERFLY. These are of truly Olympian quality.

BWW Review: FIREFLIES at The Black Rep
BWW Review: FIREFLIES at The Black Rep
February 14, 2022

'A perfect storm of anguish in the Jim Crow South' 'Fireflies' opens at St. Louis Black Rep

BWW Review: HILLARY AND CLINTON at West End Players Guild
BWW Review: HILLARY AND CLINTON at West End Players Guild
February 11, 2022

A deeply perceptive look at a political campaign (and a political marriage) in crisis. 'Hillary and Clinton' opens at the West End Players Guild.

BWW Review: IPHIGENIA IN SPLOTT at Upstream Theater
BWW Review: IPHIGENIA IN SPLOTT at Upstream Theater
January 21, 2022

An astonishingly fierce tour de force blazes at Upstream Theater

BWW Review: THE GONDOLIERS at Winter Opera St. Louis
BWW Review: THE GONDOLIERS at Winter Opera St. Louis
January 17, 2022

Gina Galati's marvelous Winter Opera company has mounted a delightful production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gondoliers. It opened last night at the new Kirkwood Performing Arts Center to a full and warmly responsive audience.

BWW Review: SWEAT At St. Louis' Black Rep
BWW Review: SWEAT At St. Louis' Black Rep
September 15, 2021

Nottage's Pulitzer Prize winning script, 'Sweat', is searing in its portrayal of the human tragedy arising from capitalism unleashed.

BWW Review: Splendid Voices Fill Rossini's BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA at Union Avenue Opera
BWW Review: Splendid Voices Fill Rossini's BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA at Union Avenue Opera
July 23, 2021

Splendid Voices Fill Rossini's Comic BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA at Union Avenue Opera

BWW Reivew: OTSL Gerdine Young Artists Shine in CENTER STAGE'
BWW Reivew: OTSL Gerdine Young Artists Shine in CENTER STAGE'
June 21, 2021

The Opera Theatre of St. Louis presents their Gerdine Young Artists in a dazzling evening of opera. It's all dessert and no dull vegetables.

BWW Review: Opera Theatre of Saint Louis' I DREAM A WORLD
BWW Review: Opera Theatre of Saint Louis' I DREAM A WORLD
June 17, 2021

Juneteenth celebrations in Saint Louis got off to an early start on Tuesday, June 15. Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, in collaboration with the Missouri Historical Society, presented a gorgeous cornucopia of music—and a bit of slam poetry—in an early-evening performance on the steps of our History Museum in Forest Park. It was called 'I Dream a World'.

BWW Review: New Works, Bold Voices at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
BWW Review: New Works, Bold Voices at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
June 15, 2021

The glorious Opera Theatre of Saint Louis has opened its New Works, Bold Voices Lab. This is its continuation of a program exploring where the world of opera might go in days ahead. This season’s offerings are three quite different short pieces, together lasting some hour and a quarter.

BWW Review: LA VOIX HUMAINE Opens At Saint Louis Opera Theatre
BWW Review: LA VOIX HUMAINE Opens At Saint Louis Opera Theatre
June 7, 2021

Alone on stage. Alone, alone and desperate. Alone forever. Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and that courageous soprano Patricia Racette bring us Francis Poulenc’s one-act opera LA VOIX HUMAINE. It’s a solo piece, a true tour de force for the singer. And Ms. Racette carries it off magnificently.

BWW Review: KING LEAR at Saint Louis Shakespeare Festival
BWW Review: KING LEAR at Saint Louis Shakespeare Festival
June 7, 2021

Yes, André de Shields is playing Lear! His long career in musical theater stretches from the original Hair to The Wiz to Hadestown, and it is bespangled with awards (Emmy, Grammy and others). He’s an icon. Now, at seventy-five, he takes on the most demanding role in all of Shakespeare.

BWW Review: HIGHWAY 1, USA Opens at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
BWW Review: HIGHWAY 1, USA Opens at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
June 1, 2021

Opera Theatre Saint Louis continues its refreshing festival season with a revival of the rarely seen Highway 1, U.S.A. by William Grant Still, the 'dean of African-American composers'.

BWW Review: GIANNI SCHICCHI at Opera Theatre Saint Louis
BWW Review: GIANNI SCHICCHI at Opera Theatre Saint Louis
May 24, 2021

The glorious Opera Theatre of Saint Louis opened it’s festival season last night with a sheer delight: Puccini’s delectable one-act comedy, Gianni Schicchi.

BWW Review: SUOR ANGELICA Opens at Winter Opera Saint Louis
BWW Review: SUOR ANGELICA Opens at Winter Opera Saint Louis
March 23, 2021

Winter Opera Saint Louis rises from its pandemic slumber with a very lovely production of one of Puccini’s more rarely performed works—Suor Angelica.

2020-2021 SEASON FULL OF HISTORIC FIRSTS AT OPERA THEATRE OF SAINT LOUIS
2020-2021 SEASON FULL OF HISTORIC FIRSTS AT OPERA THEATRE OF SAINT LOUIS
October 19, 2020

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis announces adventurous season of streaming and out-door opera.



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