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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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Feature
In Kansas City, celebrity UFO-filmer Stan Romanek finds an audience of believers — and one reporter
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: August 13, 2009
Stan Romanek is telling everyone to look at the sky. Most of the people standing around on this mid-July evening outside the Intrigue Park Place Hotel, near Interstate 435 and...
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Night & Day
Float On
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: August 13, 2009
To his credit, the late, great country singer and songwriter Roger Miller aimed higher than Branson. His 1985 Broadway hit, Big River — a musical adaptation of Mark...
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Stage
Men betray killer instincts in Glengarry Glen Ross; women bleed in the Actors' Equity Showcase
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: August 13, 2009
The history of men at work goes something like this: hunter, slave, serf, yeoman, line worker — and then what? Salesman? HR rep? In this post-factory, post-farmer,...
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Night & Day
Grab Bag
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: August 6, 2009
Over six years, the annual Actors Equity Showcase of locally written short plays has grown richer and more unruly. It promises surprises yet has its own traditions. Chief among...
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Night & Day
We'll Take What We Can Get
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: August 6, 2009
The bad news is that the Actors Theatre of Kansas City, this paper's choice for Best Theater of 2008, is able to mount just one show in 2009. The good news is that the show is...
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Studies in Crap
Harvesting the Past
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: August 6, 2009
Title: Twenty-Fifth Biennial Report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture Date: 1926 Discovered: at Prospero’s Books, 1800 West 39th Street Representative quotes:...
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Critic's Choice
Toby Keith
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: July 30, 2009
Friends, patriots, country fans, lend him your ears. Here comes the big dog. The bar lover. The collector of Taliban scalps. The man who put the TK in that Dixie Chick's FUTK...
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Stage
This year’s Fringe Festival tried too hard to be important
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: July 30, 2009
The best shows at this year's Fringe Festival toyed with their points rather than pounding them. Creating the loudest noise in a week full of buzz, The Death of Cupid was...
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Studies in Crap
From a Distance
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: July 23, 2009
Title: The Independent: Kansas City’s Weekly Journal of Society Publisher: Mrs. Glee Gaylord and the Creel Publishing Company Date: October 4, 1941 Discovered at:...
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Stage
The pros in Are We There Yet? suffer indignities, while the amateurs in A Midsummer Night’s Dream hit a glorious Bottom
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: July 23, 2009
Sometimes I feel for actors. Sure, the professionals starring in the American Heartland Theatre's Are We There Yet? have it all going for them: talent, ovations, livelihoods in...
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Night & Day
Drama Fest
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: July 16, 2009
After some 60 years of festivals — and in its fifth year in KC — Fringe is now a noun ("See you at Fringe"), a verb ("I need the night off because I'm Fringing")...
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Night & Day
Early Birds
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: July 9, 2009
Today's theater audiences expect to be warned if a play contains smoking, gunshots, nudity or any of the things that kids look for on Cinemax. The old souls at the Gorilla...
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Studies in Crap
What the Chuck?
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: July 9, 2009
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Stage
A cute Bug infests the Coterie, and Corrie Van Ausdal hits redial
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: July 2, 2009
On rare occasions, we're treated to shows that we don't want to end. U:Bug:Me, the new, bug-themed rock musical premiering at the Coterie Theatre, is one that I didn't want to...
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Stage
Don’t worry about missing any great poetry at this year’s Shakespeare Festival
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: June 25, 2009
Whether I enjoy the shows, I still find myself bemused at each summer's Heart of America Shakespeare Festival — at the way the finest of poetry is, at times, reduced to a...
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Night & Day
Improv Marathon
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: June 18, 2009
There's always the annual Bloomsday, last weekend's through-the-night celebration of the brick-thick and glorious puzzle Ulysses, but this year offers fans of wild, brainy,...
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