Central Standard Theatre founder Bob Paisley will present five plays at this summer’s KC Fringe festival, including performances by artists from California and Adelaide, Australia. The KC Fringe offerings, Paisley said, will be like “the British Invasion but with better weather.”
Strong performances in David Rabe's dramatic comedy “Hurlyburly” capture the madness of drug-addled Hollywood hustlers a generation ago. The play shows its age, but the Living Room production, directed by Bryan Moses, delivers strong performances.
Spinning Tree Theatre opens the sexy musical ‘Hello, Again,’ based on a 1900 play about a succession of casual sex encounters, and the Living Room opens David Rabe’s drug-drenched opus on Hollywood showbiz hustlers, ‘Hurlyburly.’
Lanford Wilson's “Burn This” invites the audience to dive headlong into a world of raw emotion, insoluble grief and explosive passion. It is far from a perfect play, but it has vitality and provides great material for talented actors.
Kansas City Repertory Theatre delivers a superior production of David Mamet’s classic “American Buffalo.” Director Jerry Genochio and his splendid cast see the play as a comedy of manners.
“Carousel” opened fundraising doors for the Living Room, and now it is staging two shows, “Burn This” and “Hurlyburly,” simultaneously. Artistic director Rusty Sneary hopes that doing something so audacious will lure more people to the company’s home near 18th and McGee.
It’s a safe bet that KC’s downtown area has more live theater than you’re used to.
