St. Louis Post-Dispatch Metro columnist Tony Messenger offers an expose of modern-day debtor’s prisons and how they’ve destroyed lives in Missouri and beyond.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s Dark Matters is probably best known for its paranormal elements. I will remember it for family dynamics that were compellingly depicted in the recent staging by the West End Players Guild.

The title of Don’t Wait for the Marlboro Man tells us not to wait even though the setting is a hospital waiting room. The intriguing drama by Olivier Garofalo is receiving its American premiere from Upstream Theater in an excellent production directed by Philip Boehm, who translated the play from the original German.

Window to the Soul is a new multimedia juried group show at Art Saint Louis featuring works by 49 St. Louis regional artists from Missouri and Illinois.

Missouri Weird & Wonderful, scientist, teacher and inventor Dr. Diuguid, anti-aging therapy, a fun textile artist, the Towel Man and the Keeper of the Cup.