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KC Rep's Eric Rosen looks to future

He’s sticking around. He’s sticking around. At least for a while. That’s the word from Eric Rosen, Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s 41-year-old artistic director, who plans to remain at the helm of the city’s leading nonprofit theater company at least through 2014.

Previous Columns

Coterie to open season with ‘Spring Awakening’

May 22, 3:17 PM

For years the Coterie Theatre has pushed the boundaries of acceptability when it comes to what a children’s theater can and can’t do.

Summer theater | KC is alive with the sound of musicals

May 22, 3:14 PM

The summer theater season in Kansas City really means the summer musical season, because you’ll be hard-pressed to find plays that don’t involve singing, dancing and over-the-top emotions between now and early September.

Musically impressive ‘Everyday Rapture’ hits and misses on opening night

May 21, 9:32 AM

“Everyday Rapture” is a curiosity — a fictionalized autobiography of the Topeka actress who co-wrote it and performed it in all of its New York incarnations.

Living Room to throw a fundraising party

May 18, 11:49 AM

Rusty Sneary and Shawnna Journagan, founders of the Living Room, will mark the gritty theater company’s second birthday Monday with a fundraiser.

New Theatre owners celebrate 40 years of entertaining KC

May 19, 8:47 PM

Dennis Hennessy and Richard Carrothers, owners of the New Theatre, have spent 40 years in show business. If you want to get a sense of how they accomplished that and built an audience of 25,000 season ticket holders, well, all you have to do is listen.