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Author: Alan Scherstuhl
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  1. Studies in Crap

    Once upon a time, Kansas City worked

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: February 4, 2010

    Title: The Story of Kansas City: The City at Work Date: 1958 Publisher: Kansas City, Missouri, Board of Education Discovered at: River Market Antique Mall The cover...

  2. Stage

    Around the World in 80 Days and Life on the Mississippi: on-the-road shows that miss some of the attractions

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: February 4, 2010

    The new Kansas City Repertory Theatre always achieves what it sets out to do. I admire even the shows that I don't relish, such as the colossal, mechanical A Christmas Story....

  3. Studies in Crap

    George Leonard Herter tells you How to Live With a Bitch

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: January 28, 2010

    Title: How to Live With a Bitch Author: George Leonard Herter Date: 1969 Publisher: Herter's Inc., a Minnesota sporting-goods outfitter now distributed by...

  4. Stage

    With Boston Marriage, Kansas City Actors Theatre contemplates same-sex marriage, circa 1900

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: January 28, 2010

    There's a wit to staging David Mamet's Boston Marriage in the stateliest drawing room at the Webster House, an 1885 schoolhouse at 16th Street and Wyandotte that hosts high-end...

  5. Stage

    MET puts on a dark comedy about teens for grown-ups

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: January 21, 2010

    It's impolite to guess an actress's age, but Kimberly Akimbo, now enjoying an effective shoestring production at Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre, invites — hell, demands...

  6. Night & Day

    Old Slang

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: January 14, 2010

    Tonight is ladies' night in Mamet-land, when the too-long-in-exile Kansas City Actors Theatre opens Boston Marriage, the only play by David Mamet to boast an all-female cast....

  7. Night & Day

    Future Ain't What It Used to Be

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: January 7, 2010

    Better late than never. Just as we dip our feet into the second decade of the new millennium, along comes the Journeyman Theatre Company with a production of The Violet Hour, a...

  8. Night & Day

    Benjamin Button's Cousin

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: January 7, 2010

    No small theater in town is as daring as Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre (3614 Main), that thriving, loose-limbed concern whose directors fill their storefront space with sand by...

  9. Stage

    Red Light Winter undresses a young writer's mind

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: January 7, 2010

    Everyone in Red Light Winter, right down to the whore, is big on Tom Waits and the corresponding idea that a fucked-up life is a romantic one. Soaked through with sex and...

  10. Night & Day

    Laughs in a bowl

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: December 31, 2009

    Lately, Kansas City's teensiest theater has been its liveliest. The Fishtank — a foil-wrapped hollow at 1715 Wyandotte — has been a showplace in recent months of...

  11. Studies in Crap

    Ms. Rockwell gets her diary back

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: December 31, 2009

    For a moment, she wasn't sure. Stepping into a Johnson County Houlihan's for lunch with the Pitch writer who spent 2009 publicly invading her privacy, the woman we've come to...

  12. Feature

    Will she run for Congress? Who cares – it makes good radio for KMBZ 980's conservative Darla Jaye

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: December 10, 2009

    Darla Jaye doesn't remember hanging up on my dad. But she doesn't doubt that she did. The spitfire host of KMBZ radio's 980 Live … with Darla Jaye is sitting with me at a...

  13. Night & Day

    Unstoppable Singer

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: December 10, 2009

    For some folks, just one Christmas show isn't enough. Local actor, singer and lovable lug James Wright, one of the stars of this year's Spectacular Christmas at Musical Theater...

  14. Night & Day

    Vicious Video

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: December 10, 2009

    Mr. T would call it “absoludicrous.” Local video alchemist Pat Vamos has mixed together 70 minutes of found-footage glory to pimp his new Magical for the Ugly DVD....

  15. Night & Day

    Vicious Video

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: December 10, 2009

    Mr. T would call it "absoludicrous." Local video alchemist Pat Vamos has mixed together 70 minutes of found-footage glory to pimp his new Magical for the Ugly DVD. You can...

  16. Night & Day

    Unstoppable Singer

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: December 10, 2009

    For some folks, just one Christmas show isn't enough. Local actor, singer and lovable lug James Wright, one of the stars of this year's Spectacular Christmas at Musical Theater...

  17. Stage

    Refuse reincarnation at the Unicorn or chaotically celebrate Jesus' birth with Musical Theater Heritage

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: December 10, 2009

    American theater long ago sided with three-act storytelling over modernist prickliness, so audiences don't often find themselves fighting through a play such as Christopher...

  18. Feature

    The Pitch's Crap Archivist finds a holiday gift from 60 years ago: tourism

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: December 3, 2009

    So you're visiting Kansas City in December 1949. Perhaps you're a conventioneer: The Missouri Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages hits town December 4, and the Potato Association...

  19. Night & Day

    6 X 10 Festival

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: December 3, 2009

    Thank the sweet baby Jesus: Here’s a December night in the theater that's not about yuletide ghosts, Christmas carols, flagpole licking, or good ol' George Bailey getting...

  20. Night & Day

    Festive Reprieve

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: December 3, 2009

    Thank the sweet baby Jesus: Here's a December night in the theater that's not about yuletide ghosts, Christmas carols, flagpole licking, or good ol' George Bailey getting...

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