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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.

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.

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.

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.

November 5, 2018

“Show Boat” in Context: Timeless Music and Tough History

MTH Theater at Crown Center offers up lively entertainment packaged around a history lesson in a spirited, scaled-down production of “Show Boat,” the 1927 classic..

September 23, 2018

An American Classic Lives Again in Dazzling Lyric Opera Production

Heat, passion, romantic longing, revenge and sudden violence — these are the prime ingredients of flamenco, Shakespeare and film noir. And all are present and..

August 14, 2016

Nedra Dixon does Billie Holiday in Spinning Tree Theatre’s ‘Lady Day’

The history of American music is filled with the brilliant, the tragic and the doomed. But few artists embody all three, and fewer still endure..

July 15, 2016

Sex, Murder and All That Jazz at the New Theatre

The New Theatre production of Chicago may be the most technically polished show in the venerable Overland Park dinner theater’s history. That, at least, is..

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