Missouri History Museum

The Missouri History Museum is proud to bring the best of St. Louis' local theatre companies to the E. Desmond Lee Auditorium. The 2010-2011 season runs from November through April and features an exciting and eclectic mix of plays that tie into our history, exhibitions and mission. Season tickets and special member rates are available.

We have a wonderful season for 2010-2011.  Please see details below.

Click here for tickets to any of our upcoming performances!

Know Before You Go
Limited parking is available adjacent to the Missouri History Museum.  During nice weather, weekends and evening events, our lots are often full.  Over 400 free parking spaces are available directly across from the Visitor's Center and next to the tennis courts (approximately one and a half blocks from the History Museum). On the weekends, it is also legal to park along Lindell Boulevard.  Please allow extra time to park and walk to the Museum, or use the Metrolink to avoid missing the curtain.

Box office opens 1 hour before curtain.  House opens 30 minutes before curtain.

St. Louis Actors' Studio, Rock 'n' Roll

November 11-21, 2010
Thurs-Sat - 8:00pm; Sundays - 2:00pm
Ticket prices: Adults - $25; Students, seniors & veterans - $20; MHM members & groups - $18; Student rush (1/2 hr before show) - $10

Freed-Yorick Theatre Ensemble, Voices

January 13-23, 2011
Thurs-Sat - 8:00pm; Sundays - 2:00pm
Ticket prices: Adults - $25; Students, seniors & veterans - $20; MHM members & groups - $18; Student rush (1/2 hr before show) - $10

Voices is a performance piece that weaves together the writings of Emily Dickinson, Anne Frank, Langston Hughes, Helen Keller, and Henry David Thoreau in a thrilling collage set to original music. This is the newest piece by F. Reed Brown.  Despite the diversity of the subjects, and despite their relative isolation from their cultures, Brown notes all five "were writing about universal human themes--love, death, family, nightmares--though from vastly different perspectives."

St. Louis Shakespeare, Cyrano d'Bergerac

March 11-20, 2011
Thurs-Sat - 8:00pm; Sundays - 2:00pm
Ticket prices: Adults - $25; Students, seniors & veterans - $20; MHM members & groups - $18; Student rush (1/2 hr before show) - $10

Edmond Rostand's immortal tale of a man with a flashing rapier and a rapier wit is one of the greatest stories of love and honor ever penned.  Cyrano loves the beautiful Roxane, but his larger-than-life nose prevents him from revealing his affection.  So he pours his love into a letter with which the handsome but inarticulate Christian woos her.  A wildly romantic story laced with swagger, gallantry, and sacrifice.

St. Louis Repertory Theatre's Imaginary Theatre Company, Trail of Tears

March 25-April 3, 2011
Friday student matinees - 10:00am; Sat-Sun - 2:00pm
Ticket prices: All tickets $6; MHM members & groups - $5

Celebrated playwright Kathryn Schultz Miller brings history to life in this gripping drama.  View 1800s America through the eyes of youthful and determined Chosen One as his people are forced to abandon their homeland in the Smokey Mountains.  With his wife and his father, he fights valiantly to save his people, but is overcome time and again by the attractive empty promises of the new settlers.  This dramatic tale of one man's heartbreaking struggle to hold on to his Cherokee heritage is a fresh look at a painful chapter in American history.