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VERVE

COCA (Center of Creative Arts)

Verve features COCA’s Pre-Professional Division dance companies, COCAdance and Ballet Eclectica. This production is the culmination of their work across the season—highlighting their versatility as they present 12 dance works across three different programs. In preparation for this concert, COCA pre-professional artists experience creative development residencies with renowned guest artists from around the world. These professional artists mount new works and collaborate with COCA’s production team to fully realize each piece.

For more information, https://www.cocastl.org/calendar/verve/

ShimmySTL: The Surprising History of Bellydance in St. Louis

.Zack

This spellbinding show combines documentary footage and live performances to tell the weird and wonderful 120-year history of St. Louis's underground bellydance community.

Did you know:
• A belly dancer at the 1904 World's Fair balanced a chair in her teeth while shimmying?
• A St. Louis woman opened a school for "Salome Dancers" in 1908?
• In the 1970s, bellydance was so popular in St. Louis that you could see a show at Famous Barr

If you love quirky history, dance, or the City of St. Louis, this show is for YOU!

Presented with support from the Regional Arts Commission.

For more information, https://www.metrotix.com/events/detail/shimmy-stl

Ben Jones

Blue Strawberry

Join award-winning vocalist Ben Jones and legendary pianist, composer and music director Ron Abel as they return to Blue Strawberry for an evening of side-splitting laughs and unbelievable music.

For tickets and more information: bluestrawberrystl

TGWG Presents “Hot L Baltimore” By Lanford Wilson

Theatre Guild of Webster Groves

"TGWG Presents “Hot L Baltimore” By Lanford Wilson
Directed by Debbie Love; Asst. Directed by Warren Frank
May 9,10, 6-18, 2025
517 Theatre Ln., Webster Groves MO 63119
Tickets $18 General Admission / $15 Students & Seniors 
CASH OR CHECK ONLY

Winner of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best American Play and the Obie Award for Best American Play. The scene is the lobby of a rundown hotel so seedy that it has lost the “e” from its marquee. As the action unfolds, the residents, ranging from young to old, from the defiant to the resigned, meet and talk and interact with each other during the course of one day. The drama is of passing events in their lives, of everyday encounters and of the human comedy, with conversations often overlapping into a contrapuntal musical flow. In the resulting mosaic each character emerges clearly and perceptively defined, and the sum total of what they are—or wish they were—becomes a poignant, powerful call to America to recover lost values and to restore itself in its own and the world’s eyes.

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