An award-winning journalist recognized for her media leadership and for promoting diversity, Trish Muyco-Tobin has more than 20 years of experience in print and broadcasting. She is also a dedicated community volunteer.
An award-winning journalist recognized for her media leadership and for promoting diversity, Trish Muyco-Tobin has more than 20 years of experience in print and broadcasting. She is also a dedicated community volunteer.
One of William Shakespeare’s comedic masterpieces will be Shakespeare Festival St. Louis’ main stage production this year. The Trish Set has learned that “Love’s Labors Lost,” will run at Shakespeare Glen in Forest Park May 31 through June 23, and will be directed by new SFSTL executive producer Tom Ridgely, his first since taking the helm of the company last spring. The comedy belongs to Shakespeare’s “lyrical” period, which also includes “Romeo and Juliet” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The play tells the story of the Princess of France and her ladies on a diplomatic mission to Navarre, only to be met by a young king and his lords who have taken a vow not to see women. Ridgely considers the play to be one of the Bard’s most dazzling and delightful comedies, and a brilliant study of the ways culture shapes courtship.
“The Bard’s insights into the different ways men and women love and want to be loved have never felt so contemporary, and the climactic final scene is one of the most moving and masterful in the canon. It’s also the perfect play for Forest Park, with its lovers and clowns cavorting all over the sumptuous royal park of the King of Navarre, and I can’t wait to share it with our audiences,” Ridgely said.
One other interesting note, “Love’s Labors Lost” features the single longest word in all of Shakespeare’s plays: honorificabilitudinitatibus, which means “of honor.” The cast for “Love’s Labors Lost” will be announced in the spring.
Next month, the American Heart Association is hosting its popular Go Red for Women Luncheon at The Ritz-Carlton, St. Louis. The Feb. 1 event is considered the cornerstone for the Go Red for Women movement in the St. Louis area, focusing on heart disease and stroke by promoting healthy lifestyles, building awareness and raising funds to support research and education initiatives. For tickets, visit heart.org.
Save the date for Elevating the Conversation, Webster University’s annual Diversity & Inclusion conference held on campus Feb. 26 to 28. For a full schedule of programs and events, visit webster.edu/diversity-inclusion.
The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis opens its spring exhibition season on Jan. 18 with “Christine Corday: RELATIVE POINTS,” a major site-specific display commissioned by the museum and anchored by a 12-piece monumental sculptural installation. Also on view through April 21 are: Beijing-based artist Guan Xiao’s first solo museum exhibit in the U.S. titled “Fiction Archive Project,” which will demonstrate our shifting cognitive processes in the internet age through physical forms and digital images; German artist Oliver Laric’s three-minute animation, “2000 Cliparts” to be projected on the museum’s façade every evening; and “ArtReach: Vashon High School” to feature work from sophomores participating in the Vashon + CAM partnership.
