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Democracy On Stage
A collaboration with the ACLU in St. Louis.
ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH
Sunday, Aug. 11, 2002
A&E Section

Professor's book says Shakespeare's plays reveal legal wrangles for land
By Judith Newmark

Another St. Marcus veteran, Joan Lipkin, is getting ready for the sixth season of The DisAbility Project, which she set up to create a venue in which disabled people could create and perform their own theater work. The Project will perform in November at the American Civil Liberty Union's Bill of Rights dinner.
 
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Sunday, May 19, 2001
A&E Section

New Loop Theater would make it easy to make an evening of it
By Judith Newmark

As Julie George-Carlson puts together plans for the proposed Loop Theater, one phrase keeps running through her head:

"Dinner and a show. Dinner and a show."
 
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Sunday, February 13, 2000

Troupes anxiously await fate of St. Marcus theater

Monday is Valentine's Day. In theatrical terms, that means it's almost next season. Around the country, artistic directors and producers are taking a hard look at scripts and at budgets, at what they want and at what's available. In St. Louis, however, that's not necessarily a "what" question. Sometimes it's a "where" question.
 
St. Louis Riverfront Times
2/16/00

Subterranean Homesick Blues
The people under the stairs at the St. Marcus Theatre may have to pack up and move out
By Eddie Silva

Last week, playwright/director/producer Joan Lipkin was being honored in the state Capitol rotunda with the 2000 Missouri Arts Award in the presence of Gov. Mel Carnahan and his wife; state representatives such as William Clay; her father and sister; and some 400 artists and arts advocates who had made the trek to Jefferson City for a day of grassroots lobbying for the arts. Lipkin is the youngest of the six to receive the award -- which recognizes significant longtime achievement -- this year. Printmaker and recently retired Webster University professor Leon Hicks was the other St. Louisan to receive the award.
 
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Editorial Page
Thurs., Feb. 17, 2000

The curtain falls on St. Marcus

PERFORMING ARTS

The local performing arts will be poorer when the stage goes dark at the basement theater of St. Marcus Church on the near South Side in June. The use of the church basement as the St. Marcus Theatre has been a blessing for small and medium-sized arts groups like Joan Lipkin's Uppity Theatre Company, Scott Miller's New Line Theatre and Christopher Jackson's CJ Productions -- the kind of organizations that are always scrambling for affordable and accessible space.
 
St. Louis Riverfront Times
March 22, 2000
Letters to the Editor

AIN'T MARCUS

I was so saddened to hear about the St. Marcus Church closing what has been one of the most important venues for diverse voices in America, the St. Marcus Theatre.