The current virtual production from the Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City is an affecting, micro-budget evocation of music’s power to bridge divides between cultures and people. “Texas in Paris,”
One of the few good things you can say about the COVID-19 pandemic is that it has proven to be a creative trigger for theater companies that simply cannot perform
Each year since 1992 the Coterie has teamed up with UMKC Theatre for a coproduction that pools resources and takes advantage of graduate and under-graduate students in the school’s theater
In “Death of a Driver,” playwright Will Snider delivers a thoughtful two-character drama that depicts a poignant but doomed relationship between people from opposite sides of the globe. The play is being presented by the Unicorn Theatre in a virtual production through Nov. 29. In a program note, Snider explains that for three years he […]
It should come as no surprise in light of the COVID-19 pandemic that the Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City will kick off its fifth season with a virtual performance. Damron Russel Armstrong, founder and artistic director, explained that initial performance of “Blood at the Root” by Dominique Morisseau, will be performed by actors performing […]
In our ever-shifting pandemic arts landscape, we are now at a juncture where some of Kansas City’s best actors can be heard but not seen. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Kansas City Actors Theatre, like all other theater companies, finds itself unable to perform before live audiences — especially now when most of the […]
There’s a new theater company in town and its artistic leadership is apparently unafraid to open a play in the midst of a pandemic. Venture Out Theatre’s inaugural production, an affecting three-character drama called “The Outgoing Tide,” was staged for a limited, socially distanced audience at Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre. A video version shot by Matt […]
The brain trust at MTH Theater has found a way to reach an audience, even in the depths of a pandemic. Following up the company’s classy video production of “An Evening of Rodgers and Hammerstein,” performed and filmed on the MTH stage without an audience, artistic director Tim Scott, music director Anthony T. Edwards and […]
Virtual theater is here. Yes, it’s all because of the COVID-19 pandemic, which shows few signs of receding anytime soon. Theater companies, obligated to protect the health of performers, crew and spectators, simply cannot stage live plays or musicals. So the next logical step is theater one step removed. On the plus side, theater lovers […]
