Category: Theater Reviews

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March 26, 2023

“Hamilton” Touring Production at the Music Hall Finds New Nuance in Beloved Characters

The "Hamilton" cast has created deeply nuanced portrayals that stand on their own while still feeling true to the characters fans have come to know so well.
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March 24, 2023

KC Rep’s “the ripple, the wave…” Surges with Substance and Spirit

At KCRep Christina Anderson's masterfully rendered, highly entertaining family drama unleashes and illuminates larger truths, and forces us to confront them anew.
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March 23, 2023

Unicorn Theatre’s Time-Hopping ‘Marys Seacole’ Is No Ordinary Biodrama

Anyone familiar with Drury’s work knows that this will be no straightforward biography.
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March 13, 2023

Lyric Opera’s “The Shining” Is Horrific, Haunting and Absolutely Gorgeous

Lyric Opera’s production of The Shining makes us wonder why horror-opera isn't more of a thing.
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February 23, 2023

MTH’s Original “R&H: Unplugged” Offers Electrifying Variations on Musical Theatre Masters

Music Theater Heritage's exhilarating production aims not just to revive and celebrate the songs of Rodgers, Hart, and Hammerstein, but to give them new life.
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February 18, 2023

KC Melting Pot’s “Fairview” Subverts Structure and Expectations To Engage in Complex Questions About Race & Art

KC Melting Pot Theater continues to explore the ways in which race and class play out in the very acts of producing and consuming theatre.
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February 16, 2023

KCRep’s Captivatingly Absurd World Premiere “Flood” Explores the Dangers of Privilege & Complacency

Mashuq Mushtaq Deen’s new play Flood offers as good an argument as I can imagine in favor of a resurgence of the Theater of the Absurd.
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February 3, 2023

At the Unicorn Theatre, “Refuge” is a Moving, Musical, Magical Experience

Refuge, the new play about borders, barriers, and American dreams currently in a rolling world-premiere at the Unicorn Theatre, is a complex blend of narrative, music, puppetry, and magical realism—powerful and poignant.
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January 31, 2023

The White Theatre’s “Kinky Boots” Balances Out a Few Stumbles With Heaps of Fun and Heart

Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein’s musical celebration of drag and gender expression in a battle against judgmental bigotry is as relevant as ever.
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