Dial M for Murder
- By Frederick Knott
Dial M for Murder
Director
Repertory Theatre of St. Louis
Dial ‘M’ for Murder opened at The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, and it was an out-and-out triumph. It is surely one of the most perfect productions I’ve seen there in some years. It was a happily full house. There was an air of real excitement, and at intermission the lobby was overwhelmed with the buzz of enthusiastically chatting theater-lovers.
Director Melissa Rain Anderson has put together a very nearly perfect show. The pace is tight, the movement and timing are deft and precise. It’s quite gripping.
Director Melissa Rain Anderson has put together a very nearly perfect show. The pace is tight, the movement and timing are deft and precise. It’s quite gripping.
Dial ‘M’ for Murder opened at The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, and it was an out-and-out triumph. It is surely one of the most perfect productions I’ve seen there in some years. It was a happily full house. There was an air of real excitement, and at intermission the lobby was overwhelmed with the buzz of enthusiastically chatting theater-lovers.
Director Melissa Rain Anderson has put together a very nearly perfect show. The pace is tight, the movement and timing are deft and precise. It’s quite gripping.
Director Melissa Rain Anderson has put together a very nearly perfect show. The pace is tight, the movement and timing are deft and precise. It’s quite gripping.
Director Melissa Rain Anderson and her fabulous cast deliver charm and thrills aplenty in The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis’ elegantly old-school production of the venerable “Dial M for Murder” by playwright Frederick Knott, which opens The Rep’s 52nd season.
Some Rep fans may recall that Anderson directed The Rep’s production of The Play That Goes Wrong, the last show of Steve Woolf’s tenure as the company’s Augustin Family Artistic Director. It can only be a good omen that Anderson returned to direct the first show of Kate Bergstrom’s tenure in the same position.
Under the direction of Ms. Anderson, there's this whole giddy, wobbling sense of truth and lies jousting at one another, knocking them off-kilter ...
Dial "M" twice: for magnificence and mischievousness.
Dial "M" twice: for magnificence and mischievousness.
- Scenic Design by Margery & Peter Spack
- Costume Design by Ruby Kemph
- Lighting Design by Minjoo Kim
- Sound Design by Amanda Werre
- Photos by Jon Gitchoff & Peter Spack
Cast: Jenelle Chu, Jordan Coughtry, Jayson Heil, Ethan Dunne Stewart, David Weynand, Eric Dean White
