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October 23, 2016

Neil LaBute Play at Unicorn is, Like, Whatever

I wish I could say how many times “whatever” is uttered in the meandering dialogue of The Way We Get By. But I wasn’t counting...

October 22, 2016

Death and Money Collide Onstage at KC Rep

Ayad Akhtar’s The Invisible Hand is a brainy thriller balanced precariously between a melodrama and an international finance seminar. It’s fascinating, unique and even educational..

October 1, 2016

Love, Loss and Memory at the Living Room

Two-character plays present daunting challenges to both writers and actors, but the genre will be with us forever because of one shining virtue: They’re cheap..

September 17, 2016

KC Rep Opens Season with a Spectacular ‘Evita’

Kansas City Repertory Theatre kicks off its 2016-17 season with a visually dazzling production of the musical Evita, a modern classic that benefits from the..

September 11, 2016

Cinnamon Schultz is Riveting in Kansas City Actors Theatre’s Production of Classic ‘Streetcar’

Blanche DuBois, caught in a time loop, remains forever a moth drawn to the open flame of Stanley Kowalski. Indeed, “The Moth” was a working..

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..

August 13, 2016

Kansas City Actors Theatre’s ‘I’m Not Rappaport’ Has a Touch of Arthritis

Kansas City Actors Theatre enjoys a deserved reputation as a company that introduces heady new plays to local theatergoers. They also revisit classics, often with breathtaking results. KCAT short-changes itself by opening its 12th season with a creaky play that was a Broadway hit in 1985 but feels stale.

July 16, 2016

Thoughtful Surrealism and British Silliness at the Invasion

Finding new ways to tell stories on stage is something theatergoers should root for. So The Warriors: A Love Story scores points from the get-go...

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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