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Stars Set for SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM at KC Rep This Winter
by BWW News Desk - January 27, 2017
Kansas City Repertory Theatre has announced the cast of this mid-season addition to its 2016/2017 season. Artistic Director Eric Rosen will direct a starry cast in the acclaimed musical revue Side by Side by Sondheim featuring actors Jenny Ashman, Shanna Jones, Orville Mendoza and Oliver Thornton.
MTH Theater at Crown Center Announces 2017 A NIGHT ON THE TOWN Performance Series
by BWW News Desk - January 26, 2017
In its third year, MTH expands the A Night on the Town performance series for 2017. The first edition is schedule for January 26-28 and will feature Kansas City Soprano Alison Sneegas Borberg.
KC Rep Congratulates Claybourne Elder on Role in Broadway's SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
by BWW News Desk - January 25, 2017
Kansas City Rep congratulates the star of their 2016 production of The Santaland Diaries, Claybourne Elder, on his newest role on Broadway, as the soldier in Sunday in the Park with George, which was recently announced.
LOST IN YONKERS to Take the Stage at the Jewish Community Center
by BWW News Desk - January 25, 2017
Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers, one of the playwright's most iconic works, will take the stage of The White Theatre at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City (The J) for a five-performance run opening Saturday, Feb. 11 at 7:30 p.m.
BWW Review: SHIPWRECKED! at Spinning Tree Theatre - Fun Fraud
by Alan Portner - January 23, 2017
Shipwrecked has a lengthy moniker and excellent actors
The Acting Co's X/JULIUS CAESAR Rep Headed to Spencer Theatre This February
by BWW News Desk - January 23, 2017
UMKC Theatre and The Acting Company is pleased to present a new artistic and educational collaboration as part of its 2016-17 season and 44th national tour featuring two new gripping dramas in repertory -- the world premiere of Marcus Gardley's X: Or, Betty Shabazz vs. The Nation and William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
BWW Review: PHOTOGRAPH 51 at Metropolitan Ensemble Theater
by Alan Portner - January 23, 2017
Discovery depended on work of female scientist
Spinning Tree Presents Imagination-Based Play SHIPWRECKED!
by BWW News Desk - January 22, 2017
'The adventures of Louis de Rougemont - as told by himself' was the publishing phenomenon of the 1890s. In his autobiography, which was serialized in Wide World magazine, Englishman de Rougemont described his incredible thirty-year adventure lost in the vast, unexplored Australian outback. He sailed the high seas and met exotic islanders, flying wombats, giant sea turtles and an enormous man-eating octopus. Or did he? This "vaudevillian romp with radio theatre overtones" (Los Angeles Times) "springs to life like a theatrical pop-up book" (The New York Times).
MET to Present Regional Premiere of Anna Zeigler's PHOTOGRAPH 51
by BWW News Desk - January 21, 2017
Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre presents the Regional Premiere of Photograph 51 by Anna Zeigler.
The Kansas City Wind Symphony to Present SONGS OF THE EARTH AND THE SEA
by BWW News Desk - January 20, 2017
The Kansas City Wind Symphony Presents 'Songs of the Earth and the Sea' The Kansas City Wind Symphony continues their 19th season 'As You Like It' on Sunday evening February 12th at 7:00 in the sanctuary of Village Church in Prairie Village, Kansas.
BWW Review: MY OLD LADY at Kansas City Actors Theatre
by Alan Portner - January 20, 2017
Family drama surprises
World Premiere of HOW TO USE A KNIFE at Unicorn Theatre
by BWW News Desk - January 20, 2017
Will Snider's How to Use a Knife is a world premiere play bursting with energy, secrets and suspense. It isn't easy running a busy restaurant kitchen in New York City, but it may be the last chance Chef George gets to turn his life around.
MET to Present Regional Premiere of Anna Zeigler's PHOTOGRAPH 51
by BWW News Desk - January 19, 2017
Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre presents the Regional Premiere of Photograph 51 by Anna Zeigler.
FIRST DATE Shares the Love & Laughter of Dating at Starlight Indoors 2/3-26
by BWW News Desk - January 13, 2017
With Valentine's Day right around the corner, Starlight Indoors will share the love (and laughter) of dating in today's world when it stages the modern musical comedy First Date. Things will heat up in the climate-controlled Cohen Community Stage House on Feb. 3-26 as audience members join Aaron and Casey on their first date, which just happens to be a blind date, too!
Inge Center's Karen Carpenter to Direct AFTERGLOW Reading in NYC
by BWW News Desk - January 13, 2017
William Inge Center for the Arts Artistic Director Karen Carpenter takes a sojourn from Kansas to New York City to direct a presentation of the new comedy 'Afterglow.' 
These Barn Jr. Players Get BIG This January
by BWW News Desk - January 13, 2017
Kansas City's acclaimed youth troupe the Barn Players Jr. are pleased to present Broadway musical hit, 'BIG.' Based on the memorable Twentieth Century Fox film written by Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg, this amusing musical has a book by John Weidman, with music by David Shire, and lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr. The Barn Jr. winter production is directed by community theatre veteran Jason Coats, with musical direction by Todd Gregory-Gibbs.
Chad Gerlt Named Executive Director of MTH Theater
by BWW News Desk - January 11, 2017
The Board of Directors of MTH Theater at Crown Center is pleased to announce that the company's former COO, Chad Gerlt was named Executive Director January 1st, 2017.
Inge Center's Karen Carpenter to Direct AFTERGLOW Reading in NYC
by BWW News Desk - January 11, 2017
William Inge Center for the Arts Artistic Director Karen Carpenter takes a sojourn from Kansas to New York City to direct a presentation of the new comedy 'Afterglow.' 
One Week Until Kansas City Actors Theatre's Regional Premiere of MY OLD LADY
by BWW News Desk - January 11, 2017
Kansas City Actors Theatre continues its Season Twelve with My Old Lady, written by award-winning author Israel Horovitz's, directed by KCAT Artistic Board Member Darren Sextro, and starring KC stage veterans David Fritts, Kathleen Warfel, and Jan Rogge. The show will be performing from January 11 through January 29 at the H&R Block City Stage in historic Union Station.
MTH Theater at Crown Center Announces 2017 A NIGHT ON THE TOWN Performance Series
by BWW News Desk - January 09, 2017
In its third year, MTH expands the A Night on the Town performance series for 2017. The first edition is schedule for January 26-28 and will feature Kansas City Soprano Alison Sneegas Borberg.
One Week Until Kansas City Actors Theatre's Regional Premiere of MY OLD LADY
by BWW News Desk - January 06, 2017
Kansas City Actors Theatre continues its Season Twelve with My Old Lady, written by award-winning author Israel Horovitz's, directed by KCAT Artistic Board Member Darren Sextro, and starring KC stage veterans David Fritts, Kathleen Warfel, and Jan Rogge. The show will be performing from January 11 through January 29 at the H&R Block City Stage in historic Union Station.
BWW Previews: PLAYWRIGHT SLAM at Kansas City Repertory Theatre
by Alan Portner - January 05, 2017
Attend Playwright Slam with short original script
These Barn Jr. Players Get BIG This January
by BWW News Desk - January 03, 2017
Kansas City's acclaimed youth troupe the Barn Players Jr. are pleased to present Broadway musical hit, 'BIG.' Based on the memorable Twentieth Century Fox film written by Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg, this amusing musical has a book by John Weidman, with music by David Shire, and lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr. The Barn Jr. winter production is directed by community theatre veteran Jason Coats, with musical direction by Todd Gregory-Gibbs.
A CHRISTMAS STALKING Murder Mystery Dinner Set for Crowne Plaza Hotel
by BWW News Desk - December 31, 2016
The Mystery Train is poised to kill off the Old Year and start investigating the mystery of New Year! 'A Christmas Stalking' hits the rails at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 1301 Wyandotte Street, Kansas City, Missouri on December 31st at 6:30 pm.
SevenDays Seeking Kind High School Seniors for Scholarship Competition
by BWW News Desk - December 29, 2016
A single act of kindness can start a ripple to change the world. With that premise, entries are now being taken for the second annual SevenDays Make a Ripple, Change the World Scholarship competition, now under way in Kansas City as part of SevenDays 2017, set for April 18-24.

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