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“If I’m gonna die, I’m gonna die historic on the Fury Road!”

St. Louis Shakespeare’s The Magic Smoking Monkey Theatre adapts a cult film into an onstage farce once a year. Previous adaptions have included Plan 9 From Outer Space, Reefer Madness, Glen Or Glenda, Game Of Thrones, Harry Potter, and The Star Wars Trilogy (!!). In 2011 they helped celebrate Vincentennial, the Vincent Price 100th Birthday Celebration with a stage presentation of one of the home town horror star’s classics: The Abominable Dr. Phibes in 3D, a sidesplitting, Pythonesque parody.

This year, those crazy Smoking Monkeys are presenting Mad Max – a spoof of all four of those great Mel Gibson action movies (and that Tom Hardy one). So join Mad Max and a cast of rowdy characters in an epic race for guzzolene, freedom and a better life beyond Thunderdome…in 60 minutes or less. That’S Right!

It’s like I always say: “Why read the book when you can see the movie?”, and in the case of Harry Potter I say “Why see eight films when you can see Stupefy, The 90 Minute Harry Potter !?” Now, I don’t need to read the Harry Potter books because I was lucky enough to have seen Stupefy, The 90 Minute Harry Potter when it played at Lindenwood last fall. All of the performances were sold out but there is good news for Potter fans. Stupefy is back for an encore run, this time at The Regional Arts Commission right here in St. Louis!

The Harry Potter saga was presented so fast that the lunatics at The Magic Smoking Monkey Theater group are bringing him back for an encore run of their hilarious play. Stupefy, The 90 Minute Harry Potter is a fast-moving stage production that is a parody of all eight...

Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com (Massive!) Hookup: Film with our unique social giveaway technology, we have 500 pairs – yes, that’s 1,000 people! – of movie passes (normally $11.54 each!) up for grabs to the one-week engagement of the unromatic comedy “Love Stalker” at the Portage Theater! That’s $11,540 worth of free movie tickets!

The two Columbia College film alums behind “Love Stalker” return to Chicago from Sept. 7 to Sept. 13, 2012 to celebrate the Portage Theater’s victory over the Tabernacle Church’s failed takeover of the property. Mount Prospect’s Matt Glasson, who works as a film editor in New York for Comedy Central, joined fellow Columbia alum and St. Louis filmmaker Bowls MacLean to make their film “Love Stalker” based on their own personal experiences on the dating scene.

The film screened at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, but the rom-com’s funny story about one man’s sexual exploits inadvertently became the...

Celebrate Vincentennial , the Vincent Price 100th Birthday Celebration, with a stage presentation of one of his classics: The Abominable Dr. Phibes – in 3D! St. Louis Shakespeare’s Magic Smoking Monkey Theatre has based their new play on the 1971 Vincent Price horror favorite. The police are baffled when prominent doctors are found murdered in bizarre manners, which seem to resemble the 10 Biblical plagues! Detectives soon discover that all the crimes are linked to the mysterious Dr. Phibes, who was believed to be killed in a car accident. It’s a race against time (and bees, bats, frogs, rats, ice-makers, carousel unicorns, etc.) as the detectives try to stop Dr. Phibes before he kills again. The parody is directed by Artistic Director Donna Northcott and features Richard Lewis as Dr. Phibes, Luke Lindberg as Dr. Vesalius, and Ben Ritchie as Det. Inspector Trout, with Nicole Angeli, Casey Boland, Jaysen Cryer, Ruman Kazi,...