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 program. Last year the result was a sobering production of “The White Rose: We Defied Hitler,” which told the story of young Sophie Scholl, who […]
YouTube is, among other things, an amazing cultural repository, incomplete and disorganized though it may be. There you can find random touchstones from the past, including a grainy kinescope recording of the original NBC broadcast of “Amahl and the Night Visitors” on Christmas Eve, 1951. It was the first of several TV productions of Gian […]
“A Christmas Carol” has been dramatized for film and television repeatedly, and stage versions began popping up almost as soon as Charles Dickens’ novella hit book stores in 1843. In Kansas City, family audiences have turned out to see Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s annual stage production for some 40 years. The great irony, of course, […]
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 […]
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 […]
