Underwritten by the Kranzberg Arts Foundation, The Dark Room offers live music every day we are open! Continuing our mission of providing the infrastructure for the arts to thrive in St. Louis, we provide local jazz musicians the platform to bring their music to the masses! The weekly schedule is:

– Mondays: The Monday Night Mixer Hosted By The Keith Bowman Quartet (7pm-10pm)
– Tuesdays: The Tuesday Night Hit Hosted By The Tonina Quartet (7pm-10pm)
– Wednesdays: The Kasimu-tet (9-11pm), part of the Wednesday Night Jazz Crawl in Grand Center
– Thursdays: Thursday Night Revue featuring rotating groups (9:30pm-11:30pm)
– Fridays (dinner): Ptah Williams Acoustic Trio (6-8pm)
– Fridays (late night): rotating bands (9:30pm-12:30am)
– Saturdays: “Late Night Grooves” Mo Egeston + special guests (10pm-1am)
– Sundays (brunch): Brunchin’ at The Dark Room (11am-1:30pm unless otherwise noted)

For more information, visit www.thedarkroomstl.com/live-music.

Opening reception September 7th, 6-9 PM
On display from September 7th, 2018 through October 6th, 2018.

The Gallery at the Kranzberg Arts Center, in conjunction with Saint Louis University (SLU) is pleased to present a new exhibit, “This is Our SLU,” featuring the work of 13 SLU students in response to the University’s Oath of Inclusion. The Oath of Inclusion is a student-led initiative that sets the expectation for all SLU students to promote inclusion on campus in order to form a diverse and vibrant university community. The exhibit is also a continuation of the gallery’s 2018 university exhibits in response to Melissa Stern’s “The Talking Cure,” which debuted in January. “This is Our SLU” opens on Friday, September 7 with a special opening reception from 6-9 p.m. as part of the First Friday event in Grand Center and runs through October 6.

The featured artists are MFA and BFA candidates at SLU and were selected by faculty to present work from their studio classes including paintings, drawings, sculptures and mixed media pieces.*-

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In the .ZACK Theatre

The Tesseract Theatre Company
Presents
“Mama’s Boy”

September 21 – 30, 2018
Various Times

$20 Adult GA | $15 Student/Seniors

“Mama’s Boy is a gripping family drama that illuminates history by adding a touch of humanity.” – Portland Press Herald

The riveting story of Lee Harvey Oswald and his complex relationship with his overbearing mother Marguerite, Mama’s Boy follows Marguerite’s reckless attempts to reunite her family, from Lee’s return to the U.S. from Russia, through the assassination of Kennedy, to her son’s own murder and her defense of his innocence in the months that follow. A fascinating examination of family dynamics and obsessive maternal devotion played out in the shadow of history.

“a moving and compassionate portrait of lives regularly flattened out and simplified by history’s narrative.” – New Jersey Star Ledger

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At The Grandel

St. Louis Paranormal Research Society
Presents
“The Grandel Theatre Haunted Tours”

September 25, 2018
7:00pm & 8:30pm

$30 General Admission

At the top of a small hillside in the heart of Grand Center sits the beautiful and mysterious Grandel Theatre. Built in 1884, this stately limestone structure was originally The First Congregational Church.

Throughout its 134-year history, the Grandel has been the site of several reports of unexplained paranormal activity. Now, after months of research and investigation, the St. Louis Paranormal Research Society has gathered evidence supporting these claims are true! On Tuesday, May 22nd, STLPRS has exclusive access to this cultural gem and is excited to partner with the Grandel Theatre in offering an interactive Haunted Tour!

Guests will explore areas of the theatre normally “off-limits” to the public using the same high-tech investigation equipment used by our investigators. The STLPRS will also conduct TWO spirit communication sessions in known paranormal “hot spots”!

The Grandel Theatre Haunted Tour is perfect for everyone-from newbies to well-seasoned ghost hunters!

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Story Lounge

Last Thursday of the month
6:30pm – 8pm
Suggested Donation of $5

The Kranzberg Arts Foundation and the award-winning St. Louis Storytelling Festival join forces once again for another evening of STORY LOUNGE, a new monthly storytelling series in town. This month’s lounge will be at The Marcelle, (3310 Samuel Shepard Dr, St. Louis, MO 63103) a wonderful theater space with comfortable seating, loads of free parking right across the street, and a refreshment bar.

Doors Open: 6 pm
Storytelling begins: 6:30 pm

Suggested Donation of $5

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New Line Theatre
Presents
“The Zombies of Penzance”

September 27 – October 20, 2018
8 pm (All shows)

Thursday: Adult = $25, Student/Senior = $20, Military/Educator = $12.50 (with ID)
Friday & Saturday: Adult = $30, Student/Senior = $25

Gilbert & Sullivan’s long-lost, original “operatic abomination,” in its wacky world premiere!

New Line Theatre, “the bad boy of musical theatre,” has shocked the music world by discovering a long-lost first draft by the legendary British team of librettist W.S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan, who together wrote fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896.

One of the team’s best-known works, The Pirates of Penzance, originally debuted in New York in 1879 and was revived to great success in the early 1980s with Kevin Kline, Linda Ronstadt, and Rex Smith. What we now know is that there was an earlier, stranger draft of the show, which nobody knew about until now, with most of the same characters but a somewhat different plot.

In Gilbert & Sullivan’s never-before-seen original draft, dated December 1878 and titled The Zombies of Penzance (with the unwieldy subtitle, At Night Come the Flesh Eaters), Major-General Stanley is a retired zombie hunter, who doesn’t want his daughters marrying the dreaded Zombies of Penzance (for obvious reasons). According to documents found with the manuscripts, Gilbert and Sullivan finished work on The Zombies of Penzance in early 1879, but their producer Richard D’Oyly-Carte refused to produce it, calling it vulgar, impolitic, and unchristian, and in one letter, “an operatic abomination, an obscene foray into the darkest of the occult arts.” In a letter to his cousin, Gilbert expressed his deep disappointment, writing “I fear the walking dead shall be the end of me yet.”

Until now, music scholars had been baffled by that reference.

After a battle that almost ended the partnership, the team reluctantly agreed to rewrite their show, and in December 1879, D’Oyly-Carte debuted the much more conventional, revised version, The Pirates of Penzance, for which Gilbert added the characters of Ruth and the policemen, and incorporated plot devices from his 1870 work Our Island Home and from Offenbach’s The Bandits. He also cut one song, Frederic’s Act I lament, “They Leave Me Alone.” The music for that discarded song found its way into the score for their next show, Patience, as the song “I Cannot Tell What This Love May Be.” As he had agreed, Gilbert eliminated all references to zombism in the show.

In 2013, New Line artistic director Scott Miller discovered the original manuscripts for The Zombies of Penzance in the second sub-basement of the Judson Memorial Church in New York, hidden beneath some moldy band parts from Rockabye Hamlet and Shogun the Musical, and Miller set about reconstructing the bizarre original show as G&S intended. Gilbert’s walking dead and their Zombie King now make their long-delayed world premiere. Miller has painstakingly reassembled these rediscovered materials into their original form, and St. Louis composer and orchestrator John Gerdes is reconstructing Sullivan’s music.

Now, for the first time, audiences will be able to see and hear the comic, flesh-eating insanity Gilbert & Sullivan originally wrought.

The New Line cast includes Sean Michael as Frederic, Melissa Felps as Mabel, Zachary Allen Farmer as Major General Stanley, Dominic Dowdy-Windsor as the Zombie King, with Mara Bollini, Kent Coffel, Kevin Corpuz, Robert Doyle, Matt Hill, Lindsey Jones, Tim Kaniecki, Kyle Kelesoma, Melanie Kozak, Sarah Porter, Christina Rios, Kimi Short, and Gage Seitz. The show will be directed by Scott Miller and Mike Dowdy-Windsor, with music direction by Nicolas Valdez, lighting design by Rob Lippert, scenic design by Kenneth Zinkl, costume design by Sarah Porter, and sound design by Ryan Day.

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At the Kranzberg Arts Center

Upstream Theater
Presents
“Chef”

September 28 – October 14, 2018
Various Times
$35 Adult GA | $30 Seniors 65+ | $25 Full-Time Student with ID

CHEF by UK/Egyptian playwright Sabrina Mahfouz tells the gripping story of how one woman went from being a haute-cuisine head chef to a convicted inmate running a prison kitchen. Leading us through her world of mouth-watering dishes and heart-breaking memories, CHEF questions our attitudes to food, prisoners, violence, love, and hope. Inspired by an interview Mahfouz conducted with celebrity chef Ollie Dabbous, CHEF studies food as the ultimate art form taking stimulus from Dabbous’s obsession with simplicity and making something the best it can be.

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Alerx Mercado Trio Featuring Rodrigo Villanueva

September 28, 2018
10:00 PM
$10 Adult Adv | $15 Adult Doors | $8 Student Adv | $12 Student Doors

Join the Alex Mercado Trio feat. Rodrigo Villanueva & Bob Deboo for a late evening show in the intimate Kranzberg Arts Center Studio.

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Piano Man Sam

Every Friday
10 pm – 1am
Free

Join us every Friday from 10pm-1am for a night of music with Sam Golden. Enjoy a drink and listen as country, pop, rock and jazz standards all blend under Sam’s deft hands.

Requests and sing-a-longs are encouraged.

Photos by analogstudiollc.com

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The DJ Jmo
Presents
Sophie’s Lounge Sessions

Last Saturday of the month
9:30pm – 1am
Suggested $5 Donation

music by
The DJ Jmo
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Nafi on live percussion
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#Samba #Salsa #Soca #Reggaeton #Bachata #world #Afrobeat #Afrolatin#Dancehall #Dub #Kizomba #Zouk #Rumba

FREE Admission from 8:30-9:00 with FREE Kizomba class. A mere $5 donation starting at 9:00.
Sophie’s
3224 Locust St.
2nd Floor St.Louis Mo 63103
Grand Center STL
June 30th 9:30pm

#sofritostl
#thesoulition
#thesoulitiondjs

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Saint Louis Polonia
Presents
Duo Klavitarre

September 30th, 2018
2:00pm

$32 General Admission

Enjoy two hours of beautiful music delivered by renowned international artists in the most intimate setting of Studio Polonia courtesy of Kranzberg Arts Foundation.
Duo Klavitarre, Jolanta Ziemska (pianist) and Maciej Ziemski (guitarist) fascinate and amaze audiences with piano and guitar arrangements of masterpieces by renowned composers.
Their repertoire includes baroque, classic, romantic, and modern pieces. Both artists bring an amazing development to the music world. The unusual combination of instruments, as well as the surprising arrangements, promises an exciting and diverse musical experience. Their brilliance, together with their worldwide stage experience offers a polished and lively interpretation combined with astounding sound. Join us and be witness to a remarkable performance where virtuosity meets true passion in their very unique interpretation of the most beautiful pieces of our classical musical heritage.

The Duo Klavitarre concert in St. Louis will include the artists’ own arrangements of works from Astor Piazzolla, Stanley Myers, Luigi Boccherini, Fryderyk Chopin, Vittorio Monti, Francisco Tarrega, Gerhard Schwertberger, Johannes Brahms and Roland Dyens. Guest performers will include Annika Schukow, piano and Robin Braun, guitar.