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Well, the reviews are in, and the Coterie Theatre's production of "Lucky Duck," which runs through this weekend at the New Victory Theater in New York, earned a mix of kudos and slams from t…
NEW YORK | First things first: This won't be your typical theater review. This will be an occasion to look back at where we've been and how far we've come. And by "we" I mean professional t…
Chuck Mead remembers it this way.
The drama of the moment on Broadway is a stunning revival of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," directed with extraordinary immediacy by Mike Nichols and showcasing two exceptional perfo…
The legacy of two legendary Broadway lyricists and book-writers are the subject of "Make Someone Happy," the current show at Quality Hill Playhouse.
The stage version of Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," like the novel, celebrates the chaos of freedom, glorifying the individual in his eternal battle against dehumanizing bure…
Terrific comic performances, creative direction and a handsome physical production make "The Importance of Being Earnest" one of the best shows I've seen at the American Heartland Theatre in…
"The Great Immensity" alerts us to the devastating consequences of climate change if we don't get off our rear ends and do something about it.
Kansas City Repertory Theatre in partnership with the Civilians, a New York-based "investigative theater" company, alerts us to the devastating consequences of climate change if we don't get…
Kristin Chenoweth was neither the first nor the last actress to thank her parents for driving her to all those dance classes when she collected her 1999 Tony Award.
A new play about iconic African-American Congresswoman Barbara Jordan will receive its world premiere at the Gem Theater as part of an initiative by a newly formed nonprofit group to bring …
We had arrived at the penultimate moment of Shakespeare's timeless tragedy of doomed love.
The new production of "Billy Bishop Goes to War," directed by John Rensenhouse, is the second collaboration among the National World War I Museum, the Kansas City Actors Theatre and the UMKC…
Central Standard Theatre's memorable production of Alfred Uhry's "Driving Miss Daisy" gets one more weekend of performances before jetting Down Under.
"Pump Boys and Dinettes" was a unique show when it opened on Broadway just over 30 years ago and it still is - an amiable, slap-happy revue that pokes fun at our rural roots and country cous…
Geoffrey Nauffts' play, "Next Fall," a hit both on and off Broadway in 2009-10, addresses issues of love, faith, death and loss - and, remarkably, does so with a sense of humor that cuts to …
The Coterie Theatre and the UMKC Theatre Department have joined forces to produce a remarkably well-acted revival of "The Wrestling Season," a taut one-act play by Laurie Brooks about intens…
Kudos to J. Kent Barnhart and Quality Hill Playhouse for creating a show that transported a seen-it-all theater critic to a different time and place.
Geoffrey Nauffts wants to sucker punch you.
The Kansas City Repertory Theatre, in collaboration with three other regional theaters, gives us an inventive, high-spirited and somewhat endearing stage version of "The Adventures of Tom Sa…
It wasn't really a straight concert. It wasn't exactly a stroll down memory lane. And it was something more than a Broadway greatest-hits revue. And although all of those ingredients are fou…
The Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre's impressive production of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull" is remarkable in several ways, but most remarkable of all is how contemporary this 1895 play feels.
Patti LuPone thinks back to the early days of her friendship with Mandy Patinkin and describes it this way: "Mandy became my rock."
Workin' hard.
Think of Kansas City theater as a perpetual motion machine.
