Author: Robert Trussell

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November 19, 2020

A Streaming Drama at the Unicorn: “Death of a Driver” Delivers a Thoughtful Script With Two Good Actors

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.
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November 16, 2020

A New Kind of ‘Christmas Carol’ as KC Rep Pivots to Digital

Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, theater companies have been forced to start thinking like little film studios. And now Kansas City Repertory Theatre has accepted..
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November 3, 2020

KC Black Rep Prepares to Launch Season with a Virtual Show

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. 
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October 30, 2020

KCAT Visits Kansas City’s Rowdy Past in a Compelling Radio Drama

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. 
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October 23, 2020

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. 
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October 20, 2020

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. 
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October 1, 2020

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?
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September 21, 2020

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.
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September 17, 2020

Kansas City Actors Theatre Redefined

KCAT scrapped its previously announced 2020-21 season and went back to the drawing board — and embraced a new commitment to diversity and social justice.
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