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St. Louis summer stock is over (see you next year, Muny), but fall theater is revving up. The Fox is breaking with tradition by bringing a nonmusical to the stage with “Life of Pi.” At the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, you can catch the original West End London production of “Woman in Black” just in time for spooky season, plus some great dance is headed our way, courtesy of St. Louis Dance Theatre.

‘The Wanderers’

• When: Sept. 11-28; performance times vary
• Where: Jewish Community Center, 2 Millstone Campus Drive, St. Louis County
• How much: $29.19-$60.54
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New Jewish Theatre tackles this Anna Ziegler play about two marriages that are drifting apart. One marriage involves Orthodox Jews and the other a secular couple, but they have more in common than it first appears.

‘Classic Adventure Movie; or Never Say Die’

• When: 7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday Sept. 11-27
• Where: The Chapel, 6238 Alexander Drive
• How much: $20-$25
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A group of misfits finds a treasure map and embarks on adventure. Seems like a classic tale right? (With maybe a little Cyndi Lauper thrown in there.) But this show from Slightly Askew Theatre Ensemble also deals with themes of nostalgia and connection and how we can approach the future with purpose.

‘Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me!’

• When: 7:30 p.m. Sept. 18
• Where: Fox, 527 N. Grand Blvd.
• How much: $29-$167
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Watch a live taping of “Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me!” the National Public Radio quiz show hosted by Peter Sagal. In it, a panel of comedians, writers and listener contestants answer questions about recent news events.

‘Beautiful: The Carole King Musical’

• When: Sept. 19-Oct. 19; performance times vary
• Where: Kirkwood Performing Arts Center, 210 E. Monroe Ave., Kirkwood
• How much: $47-$86
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Carole King is a chart-topping songwriter who wrote the hit “(You Make Me Feel Like) a Natural Woman” popularized by Aretha Franklin. This jukebox musical from Stages St. Louis covers that and the rest of her hits (She had a bunch.) and tells the story of her rise to fame.

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• When: 8:15 p.m. Sept. 25-27
• Where: House of Miles, 1701 Kansas Ave., East St. Louis
• How much: Free
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St. Louis Shakespeare Festival will wrap up its season with its Shakespeare in the Streets series, which presents an original play inspired by Shakespeare and a St. Louis neighborhood. This year, the neighborhood is East St. Louis.

‘Carmela Full of Wishes’

• When: 7 p.m. Friday, 10:30 a.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday Sept. 26-28
• Where: Metro Theater Company, 3311 Washington Blvd.
• How much: $15-$25
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Metro Theater Company presents this play for young people “Carmela Full of Wishes” by Alvaro Saar Rios. It’s Carmela’s birthday and she’s found a dandelion, but before she can blow the seeds, she has to think of the perfect wish.

‘St. Nicholas’

• When: Oct. 2-5
• Where: Greenfinch Theater and Dive, 2525 Jefferson Ave.
• How much: TBD
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Midnight Company is reviving this one-man show by Conor McPherson about vampires and theater critics.

‘Bat Boy’

• When: 8 p.m. Oct. 2-25
• Where: Marcelle Theater, 3310 Samuel Shepard Drive
• How much: TBD
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New Line Theatre is kicking off its 34th season with “Bat Boy,” a shocking rock musical about a half-boy, half bat that is discovered living in a cave.

‘Twelfth Night’

• When: 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday Oct. 2-5
• Where: Touhill Performing Arts Center, 1 Touhill Circle
• How much: $20-$25
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In this Shakespearean comedy, Viola is shipwrecked and ends up on foreign shores, where she disguises herself as a man for her safety. Unfortunately, she falls in love with a duke. That duke is in love with a lady. That lady is in love with the disguised Viola. Will the Bard be able to set things right? Find out in St. Louis Shakespeare’s staging of “Twelfth Night.”

‘The Minutes’

• When: 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday Oct. 2-18
• Where: Stray Dog theater, 2336 Tennessee Ave.
• How much: $30-$35
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Get a peek behind the scenes of small town politics in this comedy from Stray Dog Theatre. “The Minutes” by Tracy Letts (who also wrote “August: Osage County”) is about a city council meeting in Big Cherry where hypocrisy, greed and ambition carry the day.

‘Life of Pi’

• When: Oct. 7-19; performance times vary
• Where: Fox, 527 N. Grand Blvd.
• How much: $37-$125
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The Fox opens its season with “Life of Pi,” the adventure story about a young man from India whose father owns a zoo. When they try to move the family and zoo by boat, they get shipwrecked and the only survivors are Pi and several animals including a Bengal tiger, who doesn’t seem that interested in sharing the lifeboat.

‘Professor House’

• When: 7:30 p.m. Oct. 8-25
• Where: The Chapel, 6238 Alexander Drive
• How much: Pay what you wish, $25 suggested
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A professor is trying to get some work done, but the ghost of his dead grad student is standing on his desk. The grad student wants him to commit suicide for wrongs done when the student was alive. Contraband Theatre presents this play about a ghostly reckoning.

‘The Woman in Black’

• When: Oct. 8-26; performance times vary
• Where: Loretto-Hilton Center, 130 Edgar Ave., Webster Groves
• How much: $46-$103
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Get ready for thrills and chills with “The Woman in Black.” This show was one of the longest-running plays on London’s West End, and that production is coming to the Rep. It’s about Arthur Kipps, who hires an actor to help him re-create dark moments from his past and finally confront them. But there is something or someone lurking in the shadows.

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• When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday Oct. 9-19
• Where: Greenfinch Theater and Dive, 2525 S. Jefferson Ave.
• How much: $23-$37
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Chorus of Fools tackles this “Hamlet” prequel about what was going on in Denmark before King Hamlet was killed and his son thoroughly botched the job of avenging him. David Nonemaker and Eric Satterfield, who run Chorus of Fools, also wrote the play.

‘Set: The Legacy Concert’

• When: 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Oct. 11 and 12
• Where: COCA, 6880 Washington Ave.
• How much: $25.55-$49.08
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Modern American Dance Company (usually referred to as MADCO) is celebrating its 50th anniversary with “Set: The Legacy Concert,” which will include 14 dancers performing choreography from past MADCO participants.

‘I Have Been Here Before’

• When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday Oct. 17-Nov. 2
• Where: Kranzberg Black Box Theater, 501 N. Grand Blvd.
• How much: $24-$34
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J.B. Priestly wrote this story about people thrown together at a remote Yorkshire Inn. While they don’t know what will happen next, they all have a sinking suspicion this has happened before. Albion Theatre tackles the surreal drama.

‘The Brothers Size’

• When: Oct. 22-Nov. 16; performance times vary
• Where: Loretto-Hilton Center, 130 Edgar Ave., Webster Groves
• How much: $60-$80
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Tarell Alvin McCraney, the Academy Award-winning writer behind “Moonlight,” wrote this play about brothers in the Louisiana Bayou dealing with incarceration. The Rep is staging the play for the first time in St. Louis.

‘Entry Points’

• When: Oct. 30-Nov. 1
• Where: COCA, 6880 Washington Ave.
• How much: TBD
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Resilience Dance Company will be tackling two world premieres in this fall concert, one from choreographer Jorrell Lawyer-Jefferson and the other from Hélène Simoneau. Plus, you will see choreography from Mike Esperanza and Annie Rigney.

‘The Notebook’

• When: Nov. 4-16; performance times vary
• Where: The Fox, 527 N. Grand Blvd.
• How much: $34-$125
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You can enjoy Nicholas Sparks’ “The Notebook” as a book, as a film, and now as a musical. The love story between Allie and Noah, two people from different worlds who face obstacles to being together, is enhanced with songs from Ingrid Michaelson and direction from Michael Grief (“Dear Evan Hansen,” “Next to Normal,” “Rent”) in this Fox touring production.

‘The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe’

• When: Nov. 7-23
• Where: Gaslight Theater, 358 N. Boyle Ave.
• How much: TBD
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St. Louis Actors’ Studio is devoting its upcoming season to leading ladies and kicking it off with this one-woman show, which seems to be a string of vignettes, but as the story progresses some meaning starts to form. Lily Tomlin originated the role on Broadway, and St. Louis Actors’ Studio is giving Michelle Hand the reins in this feminist theatrical touchstone.

‘An Orchard for Chekov’

• When: Nov. 7-23
• Where: Marcelle Theatre, 3310 Samuel Shepard Drive
• How much: TBD
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Upstream Theater is staging several U.S. premieres during its 21st season including this Brazilian play from Pedro Brício, translated from the Portuguese by Stephen K. Smith. It’s about a woman who really wants to stage “A Cherry Orchard” by Anton Chekhov in Brazil, but she’s running into tons of problems. Then the playwright himself appears to her, which is weird because he’s dead.

‘First Impressions’

• When: Nov. 13-22
• Where: The Chapel, 6238 Alexander Drive
• How much: $25
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In addition to going into prisons to stage plays, the Prison Performing Arts program has an alumni troupe that will be staging “First Impressions,” Jane Austen’s early stab at “Pride and Prejudice.” This show though includes stories from people about encountering “Pride and Prejudice” for the first time, from Pakistan to Paris to St. Louis, people still respond to the classic British novel.

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• When: Nov. 14-23
• Where: Kranzberg Black Box Theatre, 501 N. Grand Blvd.
• How much: TBD
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A divorce deposition makes a man reflect on his years of terrible behavior in this play by Amy Hanson. First Run Theatre presents new works, often from Midwestern playwrights.

ABT Studio Company

• When: 7:30 p.m. Nov. 14 and 15
• Where: Touhill Performing Arts Center, 1 Touhill Circle
• How much: $60-$89
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ABT stands for American Ballet Theatre, one of the top ballet companies in America. The company fosters young talent in the ABT Studio Company, which is for dancers between the ages of 17 and 21. Dance St. Louis brings the young talents to the Touhill.

Fall Series

• When: 7:30 p.m. Nov. 14, 8 p.m. Nov. 15, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Nov. 16
• Where: COCA, 6880 Washington Ave.
• How much: $20-$75, pay what you wish on Sunday
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This year, St. Louis Dance Theater’s season is themed Love Languages, and this concert will include a world premiere from Belgian-Colombian choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa. She’s created more than 100 works for 80 dance companies. St. Louis Dance Theater’s artistic director has another world premiere for audiences to round out the performance.

‘Les Miserables’

• When: Nov. 18-23; performance times vary
• Where: Fox, 527 N. Grand Blvd.
• How much: $35-$180
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The classic Cameron Mackintosh musical about a prisoner being hunted down by an overzealous cop returns to the Fox.

‘Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery’

• When: Nov. 20-Dec. 7; performance times vary
• Where: Jewish Community Center, 2 Millstone Campus Drive
• How much: $29.19-$60.54
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Sherlock and Watson are back in this comedy at New Jewish Theatre. The play is the usual convoluted murder mystery Sherlock Holmes would get involved in: The heirs to an estate are dying, and there’s a family curse in the mix. But the humor of the show is that five actors play more than 40 characters.

‘The Wiz’

• When: Nov. 25-Dec. 7; performance times vary
• Where: The Fox, 527 N. Grand Blvd.
• How much: $44-$138
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“Wicked” isn’t the only musical to remix the classic “Wizard of Oz” story. “The Wiz” is a classic in its own right, an all-Black version of the musical that features iconic soul, gospel and rock songs as Dorothy eases on down that yellow brick road. The Fox’s touring production is based on the recent Broadway revival.