KC Fringe Fest Returns: What to Stream (and Skip) at This Year’s Virtual Showcase
Throughout the pandemic, live theater has looked a little less...live. That pattern’s held for KC’s 17th annual Fringe Festival, which has gone virtual for the second summer in a row.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
