Author: Robert Trussell

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September 8, 2020

Brave New World: Live (sort of) Theater on a Screen Near You

Virtual theater is here. Yes, it's all because of the COVID-19 pandemic, which shows few signs of receding anytime soon.
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August 5, 2020

Pandemic Pushes KCRep to Cancel Planned Season

Kansas City Repertory Theatre has cancelled its previously announced 2020-21 season, yet another example of the COVID-19 pandemic’s disastrous effect on live theater and all performing arts. Artistic Director Stuart Carden and Executive Director Angela Gieras released a joint statement on Aug. 5 explaining the decision to pull the plug on what looked like a potentially exciting season.
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June 10, 2020

More Shows to Come

Spinning Tree Theatre has announced a diverse grouping of plays and musicals, all Kansas City premieres, for its 2020-21 season. This, by the way, is the company’s 10th anniversary season.
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June 1, 2020

A Summer Without Festivals

This is the time of year when the KC Fringe Festival is gearing up for big crowds attending shows by diverse performers at multiple venues. But that won’t be happening. The KC Fringe Festival, a showcase for performers, musicians, playwrights and visual artists, was set to unfold July 12-26 at downtown and midtown performance spaces.
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May 29, 2020

‘Hey, KCRep is for You’

Stuart Carden has made himself a ubiquitous presence at Rep performances, mingling with the audience, striking up conversations with theatergoers and making an improvised public announcement before every performance.
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May 4, 2020

‘An Exciting Page Turn’

For more than 10 years, audiences at the tiny Fishtank Theatre saw experimental theater, mini-musicals, offbeat plays, solo performances, Fringe Festival shows and singular events such as a 24-hour live reading of a memoir by Alaska governor (and failed vice-presidential candidate) Sarah Palin.
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March 30, 2020

KC Performing Arts See Uncertain Future Amid COVID-19 Lockdown

As the theater community reels from a community-wide shutdown ordered by public officials on both sides of the state line, artistic leaders are faced with..
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March 15, 2020

COVID-19: Kansas City Goes Dark

It was a Friday the 13th like no other.  Friday is normally a big day for the performing arts. But this was not a normal..
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February 25, 2020

Kyle Hatley Reinvents Another Classic

And so Kyle Hatley returns. The triple-threat theater artist — he writes, directs and acts — made a huge impact on the Kansas City theater scene after he arrived in 2008 to become Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s assistant artistic director under Eric Rosen. In Kansas City, Hatley produced his original scripts for KC Fringe.
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