Robert Trussell

March 7, 2021

Music Becomes Common Ground in KC Black Rep’s “Texas in Paris”

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.

February 24, 2021

‘What I Went Through is Life Changing’

Bob Reeder, a well-traveled folk singer known for his penchant for Irish ballads and limericks, has a story to tell.

February 13, 2021

The Unicorn’s ‘RED BIKE’ Offers a Fine Performance and Creative Visuals

The Unicorn has found a way to make limited production budgets a strength by embracing visual presentations that are unlike anything you’ll see at other local theater companies.

January 23, 2021

At the Coterie, Audiences Can Choose Between Streaming Productions

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.

January 18, 2021

MTH Scores with a Virtual ‘Music of Motown’

MTH Theatre again goes on location for its current classy video production — to the atmospheric art gallery at the picturesque KC Crossroads Hotel.

January 13, 2021

For KC Arts Organizations, A Long, Hard Slog

In the world of theater, a ghost light is placed at center stage after a show closes — a single bulb on a stand that dimly illuminates the boards until the next production moves in. Few images are more haunting, because the ghost light denotes the absence of what makes performance possible: People.

December 16, 2020

Lyric Opera Scores With an Affecting Virtual Production of “Amahl and the Night Visitors”

This year the Lyric Opera chose to undertake a new production of "Amahl and the Night Visitors" with the novel participation of puppeteer Paul Mesner.

December 15, 2020

Help for Theater People: New Program to Award Grants of up to $500 to Artists, Designers and Technicians

The COVID-19 has hurt all aspects of the economy since March, and theater professionals are among those hit the hardest. Some actors, stage managers and..

December 3, 2020

The Rep Tells a Familiar Story in a New Way with its Virtual Production of ‘A Christmas Carol’

“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.

Author: Robert Trussell