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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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