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    <title><![CDATA[   'Christmas in Song' comes to life in Act 2 ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:14 CST</pubDate>
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        I guess you should think of me as Scrooge Lite, especially when it comes to holiday music.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Struggles on 'Brewster Place': Adaptation of Gloria Naylor's novel at Unicorn ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:42 CST</pubDate>
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        Tim Acito has never seen &amp;ldquo;The Women of Brewster Place,&amp;rdquo; the 1989 TV miniseries produced by Oprah Winfrey.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Versatile actor spreads her wings in 'Seussical' ]]></title>
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        Jennifer Mays has done comedy. Jennifer Mays has done drama. But the thing people forget is that Jennifer Mays, a down-to-earth beauty who has performed regularly on local stages since the mid-1990s, can do musicals. After she played Miss Sandra, the sexy curator of a wax museum who belts love songs in the New Theatre&amp;rsquo;s production of &amp;ldquo;All Shook Up&amp;rdquo; last summer, a lot of people who saw the show said this: &amp;ldquo;I didn&amp;rsquo;t know Jen could sing!&amp;rdquo;      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Pleasant surprises await in KC Rep's &lsquo;Christmas Carol' ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:27 CST</pubDate>
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        Kansas City Repertory Theatre&amp;rsquo;s annual production of &amp;ldquo;A Christmas Carol&amp;rdquo; is living proof that certain theatergoers will return again and again to re-experience familiar pleasures.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Local actor Peter Fopeano shot and killed in KCK ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:22 CST</pubDate>
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        The theater community was grieving Tuesday for the loss of one of their own &#151; actor Peter Fopeano. Fopeano was found shot to death Tuesday evening in Kansas City, Kan. Police, responding to reports of shots fired, found Fopeano in a car with the engine running near Fifth Street and Troup Avenue.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Ron Megee explains playing Sister Mary Ignatius to you ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:37 CST</pubDate>
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        Let&amp;rsquo;s just say it&amp;rsquo;s not your typical holiday show. The Unicorn Theatre&amp;rsquo;s production of Christopher Durang&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You&amp;rdquo; would be novel enough by itself. For one thing, it&amp;rsquo;s been a very long time since Durang&amp;rsquo;s venerable absurdist comedy about a dictatorial nun laying down the law in a classroom has been staged professionally in Kansas City.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Pleasant surprises await in KC Rep's annual 'Christmas Carol' ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:57 CST</pubDate>
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        Kansas City Repertory Theatre&#39;s annual production of &#147;A Christmas Carol&#148; is living proof that certain theatergoers will return again and again to re-experience familiar pleasures.       
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Putting the punch in 'Boeing Boeing': timing is everything ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 06:44 CST</pubDate>
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        Ever wonder how actors get the hair-trigger timing right in a comedy? Pull up a front row seat.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Review: 'Sister Mary Ignatius' succeeds in outrageous conclusion ]]></title>
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        Well, friends, it had been a very long time since your humble theater critic sat through a production of &quot;Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You&quot; &#151; so long, in fact, that I had forgotten how dark and ultimately disturbing this absurdist comedy really is.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   &lsquo;White Space' ruling raises concerns ]]></title>
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        On the day the rest of us were casting votes for John McCain or Barack Obama, the Federal Communications Commission took a quiet vote of its own.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Piano virtuoso Konstantin Lifschitz performs Friday at the Folly ]]></title>
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        The Friends of Chamber Music scored an exclusive engagement by booking pianist Konstantin Lifschitz for his only U.S. performance this year.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   KC Rep raises the Dickens again ]]></title>
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        Kansas City Repertory Theatre unveils the 28th season of its annual holiday classic, &amp;ldquo;A Christmas Carol,&amp;rdquo; on Saturday.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Holiday Outings: Paul Mesner Puppets and &lsquo;The Nativity' ]]></title>
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        Think of it as a show and a history lesson. Paul Mesner Puppets returns with its unique production of &amp;ldquo;The Nativity,&amp;rdquo; a piece the company has performed off and on for more than 10 years.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   MET stages Arthur Miller classic, &lsquo;The Crucible' ]]></title>
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        An old friend is in town and, as always, it was thrilling to see him. Yes, Arthur Miller is onstage again in Kansas City, and something about his plays &amp;mdash; at least the ones I like &amp;mdash; get to me no matter how often I&amp;rsquo;ve seen them.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Revamped 'Seussical' shines in children's theater ]]></title>
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        The Coterie Theatre has reprised one of its most creative shows, an abbreviated version of &#147;Seussical,&#148; which it first staged in 2004 and by so doing gave the piece a second life in children&#39;s theaters across the country.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   &lsquo;A Tuna Christmas' calls on skills of two actors to portray small-town lives ]]></title>
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        The &amp;ldquo;Tuna&amp;rdquo; shows are so full of over-the-top stereotypes that it&amp;rsquo;s easy to forget just how funny, subtle and well-written they are.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Thanks to talented actors, ‘A Tuna Christmas' is a lively romp ]]></title>
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        The &#147;Tuna&#148; shows are so full of over-the-top stereotypes that it&#39;s easy to forget just how funny, subtle and well-written they are.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Review: MET's 'Crucible' full of good performances ]]></title>
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        Sometimes I wonder if the last truly exciting time in American theater was the 1950s &#151; especially after seeing an Arthur Miller blockbuster. The Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre&#39;s often riveting production of &#147;The Crucible&#148; simply underscores a fact worth repeating: Miller was a master of dramatic narrative.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Solid cast gives weight to Unicorn's &lsquo;Liquid Morality' ]]></title>
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        Beneath the malodorous world of Ron Simonian&amp;rsquo;s plays &amp;mdash; ghastly subsets populated by pimps, hookers, johns, strippers, killers and sleazy politicians &amp;mdash; are legitimate questions about ethics.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   Actor Teri Adams takes on her biggest role: Cancer fighter ]]></title>
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        October was a month of milestones for Teri Adams. The veteran musical-theater actress celebrated the one-year anniversary of her wedding to actor Parry Luellen; she celebrated her 41st birthday; and she made it through her first National Breast Cancer Awareness Month since being diagnosed with the disease.      
    
  

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    <title><![CDATA[   A riveting performance of 'Clay' ]]></title>
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        For the first five minutes of &#147;Clay&#148; I took notes like a good reporter.       
    
  

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