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    <title><![CDATA[   Review | Cast's performances make 'The Time of Your Life' memorable ]]></title>
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        The Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre does a bang-up job with William Saroyan&#39;s &quot;The Time of Your Life,&quot; a sprawling barroom drama that captures the harsh, bittersweet and absurd realities confronting eccentric characters on the eve of World War II.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre mounts Saroyan's classic, 'The Time of Your Life' ]]></title>
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        We haven&amp;rsquo;t seen the production yet, but tip your hat to the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre for its sheer boldness in staging William Saroyan&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;The Time of Your Life.&amp;rdquo;      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Review | Machiavelli would be proud of 'Farragut North' ]]></title>
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        A famous line from &amp;ldquo;The Godfather&amp;rdquo; came to mind Friday night as I watched a tasty little play about cutthroat politics at the Unicorn Theatre: &amp;ldquo;It&amp;rsquo;s not personal; it&amp;rsquo;s business.&amp;rdquo; In &amp;ldquo;The Godfather,&amp;rdquo; of course, the line meant that assassinations were strategic calculations carried out dispassionately. Nobody gets gunned down in Beau Willimon&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;Farragut North,&amp;rdquo; but political careers are derailed with the same sort of cold-blooded logic.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Review | Little House on the Prairie ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:09 CST</pubDate>
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        It&#39;s tough to resist the charm of Pamela Sterling&#39;s adaptation of &#147;Little House on the Prairie&#148; in its first production at the Coterie Theatre in nine years.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   How will the arts survive? Expert Michael Kaiser has some answers ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:15 CST</pubDate>
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        Michael Kaiser has simple words of advice for nonprofit arts groups facing a bad economy: Be brave. Feeling the squeeze from dropping donations and government grants? Then take your audience by surprise.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   For producer, KC Rep's ‘Christmas Story' is a dream come true ]]></title>
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        Gerald Goehring learned long ago how to stretch a dollar. When he blew into New York City a couple of decades ago with a theater degree from Wichita State University, he quickly discovered that his calling card into the world of professional theater would not be his artistic aspirations but his carpentry skills.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Review | Farragut North ]]></title>
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        A famous line from &#147;The Godfather&#148; came to mind Friday night at the Unicorn Theatre as I watched a tasty little play about cutthroat politics: &#147;It&#39;s not personal; it&#39;s business.&#148;      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   &lsquo;Wicked': The hit machine lands for a long Music Hall run ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:15 CST</pubDate>
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        Theater composers have a couple of reliable tricks to fall back on if the music at hand is not destined for the Show Tune Hall of Fame. One is to simply make it loud, so the actors can belt out a song for all it&amp;rsquo;s worth, which is often enough to convince ticket-buyers that they&amp;rsquo;re getting their money&amp;rsquo;s worth. The other is to make sure even relatively quiet songs wrap up with the Big Finish, suggesting that the emotion-tugging swell may actually be deserved.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Flawlessly produced 'Wicked' hits the jackpot ]]></title>
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        The road company that set up &quot;Wicked&quot; at the Music Hall this week executes the material flawlessly, magnifying the show&#39;s best qualities and gamely forging ahead when the music fails them.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   'It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play' reverently reimagines beloved movie ]]></title>
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        Some shows that really shouldn&amp;rsquo;t work can turn out quite nicely if you have just the right combination of talent That&amp;rsquo;s the case with &amp;ldquo;It&amp;rsquo;s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play&amp;rdquo; at the American Heartland Theatre. This crisply directed, well-acted show hits most of the right notes and avoids potential pitfalls.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Martin City Melodrama presents 'A Ridiculously Reduced Christmas Carol' ]]></title>
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        Almost everyone in a position to know agrees &amp;mdash; performing in a Martin City Melodrama show is as grueling as a marathon. But they also agree it couldn&amp;rsquo;t be done a different way.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Unicorn Theatre takes on campaign politics in 'Farragut North' ]]></title>
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        Beau Willimon was there the night of the Dean Scream. He synthesized many of his experiences there in his play &amp;ldquo;Farragut North,&amp;rdquo; about a fictional presidential primary campaign.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Theater review: &lsquo;H.M.S. Pinafore' ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:15 CST</pubDate>
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        I won&amp;rsquo;t be the first theatergoer to describe Gilbert and Sullivan&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;H.M.S. Pinafore&amp;rdquo; as sheer foolishness, but it sums up the 1878 operetta rather well. Set entirely on the quarter deck of a British naval vessel that has been given the decidedly unmanly name of &amp;ldquo;Pinafore,&amp;rdquo; the story is a farcical essay on the British obsession with class distinctions.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   'Wicked' returning to KC, popular as ever ]]></title>
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        Producer Marc Platt gets emotional when he talks about the extraordinary worldwide popularity of &amp;ldquo;Wicked.&amp;rdquo; Maybe that&amp;rsquo;s because the musical itself has gotten under the skin of so many people.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Lyric Opera's 'H.M.S. Pinafore' offers pleasing diversion ]]></title>
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        I won&#39;t be the first theatergoer to describe Gilbert and Sullivan&#39;s H.M.S. Pinafore as sheer foolishness, but it sums up the 1878 operetta rather well. Director/choreographer William Theisen has ratcheted up the absurd humor of the piece in his crowd-pleasing production for the Lyric Opera, eliciting broad comic performances from a very strong cast.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   &lsquo;Richard III' is up next for Heart of America Shakespeare Festival ]]></title>
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        The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival will revive one of the Bard&amp;rsquo;s finest villains for the 2010 edition of the annual outdoor production. &amp;ldquo;Richard III,&amp;rdquo; one of Shakespeare&amp;rsquo;s most popular history plays, will be staged June 15 through July 3 in Southmoreland Park. Bruce Roach, a festival veteran and one of Kansas City&amp;rsquo;s most estimable actors, will play the title role.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Several theater groups are presenting entertaining fundraisers ]]></title>
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        Pay up, please. That&amp;rsquo;s what some of our friends in the theater community would really like you to do. Call it an alignment of the planets if you will, but the next few weeks will see a succession of theater-related fundraisers.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Research helps Barry Williams play minister in &lsquo;Church Basement Ladies 2' ]]></title>
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        Barry Williams wasn&amp;rsquo;t sure what to think when the New Theatre Restaurant sent him the script to &amp;ldquo;Church Basement Ladies 2.&amp;rdquo; For one thing, the lifelong Los Angeles Basin-resident would be playing a Lutheran pastor, which would certainly be a stretch for the actor best known as Greg Brady on &amp;ldquo;The Brady Bunch.&amp;rdquo;      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Big 12 | Theater ]]></title>
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        It&amp;rsquo;s a safe bet that KC&amp;rsquo;s downtown area has more live theater than you&amp;rsquo;re used to.      
    
  

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