http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/index.xml News, sports and entertainment from Kansas City Star en-us Copyright 2008 Kansas City Star Performing Arts 60 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:32:58 CDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys feedback@kansascity.com http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/690761.html http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/690761.html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:16 CDT I’ll be the first to admit that criticizing “Always … Patsy Cline” for not being a real play seems petty when you consider how much pleasure it has brought to a mass audience. http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/690216.html http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/690216.html Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:42 CDT I'll be the first to admit that criticizing “Always…Patsy Cline” for not being a real play seems rather petty when you consider how much pleasure it's brought to a mass audience. http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/686992.html http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/686992.html Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:35 CDT Once again Angela Wildflower Polk delivers an intense performance and anchors a show that becomes something special because she’s in it. http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/685592.html http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/685592.html Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:56 CDT It’s always refreshing to encounter a piece of audacious theater that actually works. Paula Vogel’s “Desdemona, a Play About a Handkerchief” is plenty audacious, but director John Rensenhouse and three talented actresses ratchet up the audacity quotient significantly in the first production of the summer from Actors Theatre KC. http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/681597.html http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/681597.html Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:31 CDT It's always refreshing to encounter a piece of audacious theater that actually works. http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/680988.html http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/680988.html Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:05 CDT The Coterie Theatre began life like most theater companies in Kansas City — with youth, energy, very little money and absolutely no long-range plan. http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/680984.html http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/680984.html Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:05 CDT The Coterie Theatre’s 2008-09 season is what we’ve come to expect from the young-audiences theater company. The season is by turns serious, silly and in-between, offering a dizzying range of plays and musicals that cover subjects as diverse as the Holocaust and zombies. http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/674761.html http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/674761.html Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:02 CDT I might as well just say it: You owe it to yourself to get down to Southmoreland Park to see the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival production of "Othello." And there's one overriding reason: Damon Gupton's extraordinary performance in the title role. http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/671438.html http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/671438.html Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:22 CDT John Rensenhouse wants audiences to see acting at its best — unencumbered and pure. To prove the point, Rensenhouse is directing a no-frills production of “Desdemona, a Play About a Handkerchief,” the first show this summer from Actors Theatre KC. http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/671440.html http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/671440.html Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:22 CDT Joe Price, a respected stage director and acting instructor, is leaving Kansas City. Price, who directed the current Unicorn Theatre production of “Well,” is on his way to Buffalo, N.Y., where he will teach at Buffalo State College. Price moved here from Buffalo, where he was an associate producer for the Oasis Theatre Company. http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/671445.html http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/671445.html Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:22 CDT “Esoterra,” or “Mysterious Earth,” a multimedia, multi-disciplinary spectacle that evolved from a modest art-gallery performance in 2005, will be staged twice this week at the Uptown Theater. http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/673979.html http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/673979.html Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:37 CDT I might as well just say it: You owe it to yourself to get down to Southmoreland Park to see the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival production of “Othello.” http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/669396.html http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/669396.html Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:06 CDT A black man in a white society. A military leader celebrated for his bravery. A man whose love for his wife is so fragile that he believes the lies of a schemer who tells him she is unfaithful. http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/668824.html http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/668824.html Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:01 CDT If you’re like me, you get a little nervous when you go see a show you really liked the first time you saw it. http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/665961.html http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/665961.html Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:53 CDT Lisa Kron’s “Well” is a very funny play. It’s also annoying, self-referential, pretentious and full of jokes aimed at an audience of theater people. But Kron saves the enterprise by mocking her own deficiencies as a storyteller and ridiculing the grant-supported genre of “conceptual” playwriting. http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/665562.html http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/665562.html Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:12 CDT It was a great night for regional theater at the 2008 Tony Awards, the annual extravaganza designed to celebrate the art and promote the business of Broadway. http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/665291.html http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/665291.html Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:53 CDT NEW YORK | The lavish revival of “South Pacific” took five prizes, including director of a musical, and “Boeing-Boeing, a 1960s sex farce filled with slamming doors and eager stewardesses, was named best-revival play, as the 2008 Tony Awards got under way Sunday. http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/661491.html http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/661491.html Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:35 CDT NEW YORK | The musical offerings on Broadway this spring are exceptional. And if you take the best of the revivals and compare them to the best of the new musicals, you can sketch a cultural road map. These shows tell us where we’ve been and where we’re going. http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/661503.html http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/661503.html Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:35 CDT So now Nancy Opel is connected to two of the great subversive musicals of the 21st century. In 2002 the Johnson County native earned a Tony nomination for her comic performance as Penelope Pennywise in the Broadway production of “Urinetown: The Musical,” and now she’s playing the title role in the national tour of “The Drowsy Chaperone,” which opens Tuesday at Starlight Theatre. http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/661511.html http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing_arts/story/661511.html Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:35 CDT NEW YORK | Big Daddy’s got cancer, Brick’s a drunk and Maggie needs a roll in the hay.