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Stage
In the Coterie’s Maul of the Dead, zombies have bloody fun at the mall
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: October 29, 2009
To what standard should we hold a mad undertaking like the Coterie Theatre's Maul of the Dead? To the raunchy burlesques of director Ron Megee's Late Night Theatre days, at...
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Stage
With David Cale's Palomino, the KC Rep scores again
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: October 22, 2009
The new Kansas City Repertory Theatre has racked up yet another illustrious first. Halfway through Palomino, David Cale's world-premiere play about a carriage-driver gigolo and...
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Studies in Crap
In the Year 1982, Part III: Ms. Rockwell steps further into adulthood
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: October 22, 2009
Out of college, living with her moody friend BB, working full time at a hotel, worrying over her weight, wishing that she'd had a date to squire her to Neil Diamond, our Ms....
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Studies in Crap
Aged Leathers
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: October 8, 2009
Title: Kansas City Town Squire Date: September 1970 Discovered: at Prairie Village estate sale The cover asks: “Volker Park … Jungle or Paradise?”...
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Stage
While One Time Productions ponders Arts or Crafts,
Quality Hill Playhouse throws its Curtain UpBy Alan Scherstuhl
Published: October 8, 2009
Because it boasts more theater than it has theaters, Kansas City could use a couple of more Bess Wallersteins. A producer, director and improviser, Wallerstein has revived the...
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Stage
The Unicorn’s First Time is awkward; The Coterie’s Electric Poe is creepy
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: October 1, 2009
Part bar talk and part confessional, Ken Davenport's My First Time manages, at its best, the trick of making drama out of real people's real words — in this case, "first...
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Night & Day
Losin' It
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: September 24, 2009
The Unicorn Theatre (3828 Main), 36 years in, still has the air of the frisky upstart, that theater that dares to take on the new, the challenging, the political — and...
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Studies in Crap
Berdella: The Movie is torture to sit through
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: September 24, 2009
Title: Berdella: The Movie Date: 2009 Directed by: Paul South and Bill Taft Discovered at: My mailbox at The Pitch The poster promises: Either David Cross playing George...
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Stage
The Kansas City Repertory Theatre takes an amazing journey Into the Woods
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: September 24, 2009
Sparkling, joyous and black as pitch, the wonders of the Kansas City Repertory Theatre's marvelous new production of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods could manifest themselves...
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Night & Day
Time for Sondheim
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: September 17, 2009
After just one year into its Eric Rosen-led era, the Kansas City Repertory Theatre is spoiling us. Here we have that dark fairy-tale lark Into the Woods, perhaps Stephen...
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Night & Day
Kansas' Cannes
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: September 17, 2009
Yes, the good folks behind the ninth-annual Kansas International Film Festival have landed Michael Moore's latest documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, a full three weeks...
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Film
A few choice finds at the Kansas International Film Festival
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: September 17, 2009
Discovery is at the heart of moviegoing, especially when a filmathon like the Kansas International Film Festival wants you to moviego and go and go. This year's ninth-annual...
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Stage
Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre humanizes sea monsters; Minds Eye Theatre makes humans into monsters
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: September 17, 2009
Like the joke novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, or its cash-in sequel, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, most of the power in Edward Albee's drama Seascape comes...
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Stage
L’Histoire d’Amour is a window into the soul
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: September 10, 2009
The humble miracle of Corrie Van Ausdal's Fishtank performance studio isn't simply that such a lark exists, although it is remarkable: a theater where actors perform behind a...
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Night & Day
Battle Improv
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: September 3, 2009
Like people, improv scenes are special little snowflakes. Ideas that spring from the collective mind of troupes such as Babel Fish, Tantrum, Improv-Abilities and the Trip Fives...
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Night & Day
Street Show
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: September 3, 2009
It's rare that a theater is as aptly named as the Fishtank, Corrie Van Ausdal's new-ish Crossroads performance studio at 1715 Wyandotte, where audiences peer from the street as...
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Night & Day
Go West
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: September 3, 2009
Recession be damned, the metro is somehow experiencing a renaissance of that most economically challenged of art forms: live, local, ambitious theater, much of it...
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Studies in Crap
The Ron Man
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: September 3, 2009
Title: The Counterfeit Candidate: Ronald Reagan’s Backdoor Socialism in California Author: Kent H. Steffgen Publisher: National Issues, Las Vegas Date: 1976 Discovered:...
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Night & Day
Fictional Flora
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: August 27, 2009
Last month, the ambitious community theater crew over at the Barn Players unspooled A Midsummer Night's Dream, offering up all the lovestruck swooning you could hope for....
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Stage
Musical Theater Heritage puts on a mighty Big River
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: August 27, 2009
As the crowd-pleasing, packed-house production of Big River demonstrates, Musical Theater Heritage is getting better as it grows. The company's take on Roger Miller's...
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