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Kansas City Represents in The Kennedy Center’s “Arts Across America”

Just like everyone, everywhere, the venues and arts organizations in our nation’s capital are not immune to the effects of the pandemic. To reach beyond its darkened curtains, The John

Light and Darkness: ‘An Outgoing Tide’ captures the good and bad of family relationships

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

Tasty Tidbits: Lyric Opera of Kansas City’s “Opera in Eight Parts”

The Lyric Opera of Kansas City’s newest venture, which will undoubtedly please their loyal patron base, is “Opera in Eight Parts,” a sort of hybrid recital/tasting menu which introduces the

Theater on Video: MTH Strikes Again With Songs of Rivers and Oceans

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

At Unicorn, A Show Will Go On

Cynthia Levin, the longtime artistic director of the Unicorn Theatre, couldn’t stand the idea of a dark theater building with no audiences, no working actors, no opening nights. But that became

Kansas City Represents in The Kennedy Center’s “Arts Across America”

Just like everyone, everywhere, the venues and arts organizations in our nation’s capital are not immune to the effects of the pandemic. To reach beyond its darkened curtains, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opened up its Digital Stage to feature a legion of artists in the series “Arts Across America,” sponsored […]

October 29, 2020
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Light and Darkness: ‘An Outgoing Tide’ captures the good and bad of family relationships

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 […]

October 23, 2020
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Tasty Tidbits: Lyric Opera of Kansas City’s “Opera in Eight Parts”

The Lyric Opera of Kansas City’s newest venture, which will undoubtedly please their loyal patron base, is “Opera in Eight Parts,” a sort of hybrid recital/tasting menu which introduces the major points of opera’s development from the 16th into the 21st century. As the pandemic and social isolation have dragged on, three things are apparent. […]

October 22, 2020
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Theater on Video: MTH Strikes Again With Songs of Rivers and Oceans

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 […]

October 20, 2020
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KCAT Pivots to Radio Drama

And so the artists at Kansas City Actors Theatre wrestled with the question all theater professionals have confronted this year: What are we gonna do? The COVID-19 pandemic basically shut down theater everywhere — Kansas City, Chicago, New York and all points in between. Actors Equity Association, the union for actors and stage managers, enacted strict guidelines that largely prevented conventional rehearsals.

October 1, 2020
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At Unicorn, A Show Will Go On

Cynthia Levin, the longtime artistic director of the Unicorn Theatre, couldn’t stand the idea of a dark theater building with no audiences, no working actors, no opening nights. But that became the summer reality for the Unicorn and other Equity theater companies.

September 21, 2020
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