New Line Theatre

New Line Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri, is an alternative musical theatre company producing challenging, adult, politically and socially relevant works of musical theatre. The company was created in 1991 and produces world premieres like Love Kills, Johnny Appleweed, Woman with Pocketbook, She's Hideous, In the Blood, Attempting the Absurd, and The AmberKlavier; lesser known Broadway and off Broadway shows like High Fidelity, Passing Strange, bare, The Wild Party, Floyd Collins, A New Brain, March of the Falsettos, Passion, The Robber Bridegroom, The Nervous Set, and Bat Boy; abstract musicals like Hair, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, and Songs for a New World; absurdist musicals like Reefer Madness, Attempting the Absurd, The Cradle Will Rock, and Anyone Can Whistle; concept musicals like Company, Assassins, Urinetown, Chicago, Sunday in the Park with George, and Cabaret; and reinterpretations of more mainstream works, like Evita, Man of La Mancha, Camelot, Pippin, Sweeney Todd, Grease, and Into the Woods.

New Line claims to take philosophical and practical inspiration from theatre models of the 1960s, including Caffé Cino, Cafe LaMaMa ETC, Judson Poets Theatre, Joan Littlewood's People’s Theatre Workshop in London, and to a lesser extent from the Living Theatre, the Open Theatre, and various theatre collectives in the US and Europe.

Past Shows

1991–1992

• A Tribute to the Rock Musicals*
• Attempting the Absurd *

1992–1993

• Smokin’ Santa *
• A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim *

1993–1994

• A Tribute to the Dark Side *
• Breaking Out in Harmony *
• Assassins **

1994–1995

• Pippin
• In the Blood *

1995–1996

• Company
• Out on Broadway *
• Sweeney Todd

1996–1997

• Passion **
• Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
• The Ballad of Little Mikey **

1997–1998

• Extreme Sondheim *
• March of the Falsettos
• Woman with Pocketbook *
• Assassins

1998–1999

• Songs for a New World **
• Camelot
• Into the Woods

1999–2000

• A New Line Songbook *
• Floyd Collins **
• Out on Broadway 2000 *
• Hair

2000–2001

• A New Line Cabaret *
• Cabaret
• Anyone Can Whistle
• Hair

2001–2002

• The Cradle Will Rock
• A New Brain **
• Chicago

2002–2003

• The Rocky Horror Show
• A New Line Cabaret II *
• Bat Boy **
• Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

2003–2004

• Sunday in the Park with George
• The Nervous Set
• Reefer Madness **
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch

2004–2005

• Man of La Mancha
• She’s Hideous *
• The Robber Bridegroom
• Kiss of the Spider Woman

2005–2006

• The Fantasticks
• The AmberKlavier *
• A New Line Cabaret III *
• Bat Boy
• Jesus Christ Superstar

2006–2007

• Johnny Appleweed *
• Grease
• Urinetown

2007–2008

• Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll *
• Assassins
• High Fidelity **

2008–2009

• Hair
• A New Line Cabaret IV *
• Return to the Forbidden Planet **
• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

2009–2010

• Love KIlls *
• The Wild Party **
• Evita

2010–2011

• I Love My Wife **
• Two Gentlemen of Verona
• bare **

2011–2012

• Passing Strange **
• Cry-Baby **
• High Fidelity

An asterisk denotes world premiere; a double-asterisk denotes regional premiere