Causes: Arts & Culture, Theater

Mission: Upstream Theater is a professional production company dedicated to presenting new works and inventive stagings of classical plays, with a special focus on joint ventures involving artists from other countries. We offer a theater that is spiritual and sentient, witty and engaged, multilayered and syncretic. Our goal is to move you, and to move you to think. Our outreach has three prime aims: to offer St. Louis audiences an international perspective in theater, to engage local communities from cultures outside the United States, and to help develop younger audiences.

Geographic areas served: St. Louis area

Programs: Successful production of three plays in 2014, including two us premieres of australian plays and a new translation of sophocles' antigone. Upstream was named the "best theatre troupe for plays" by the st. Louis post-dispatch.