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Author: Alan Scherstuhl
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  1. Studies in Crap

    The Old Slow News Day

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: June 18, 2009

    Title: Sports, classified and TV sections of the Kansas City Kansan Date: Sunday, May 7, 1967 Discovered at: Fairway estate sale Representative quotes: “Proud...

  2. Stage

    The Unicorn’s Speech & Debate team has something to say, as do Ron Simonian’s potty-mouthed characters

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: June 18, 2009

    Although we're in the traditional dead weeks of early summer, fresh work is flourishing on Kansas City stages. That's a problem in which to luxuriate. At the Unicorn Theatre,...

  3. Stage

    The audience zooms in on Hamlet’s existential dread

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: June 11, 2009

    A sign outside UMKC's Studio 116 warns that the urgent, intimate Hamlet inside "contains adult themes and may cause motion sickness." This isn't a joke. Just a couple of...

  4. Studies in Crap

    Blast From the Past

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: June 4, 2009

    Title: Coronet magazine Date: September 1947 Discovered at: North Kansas City estate sale The cover promises: “The tragic failure of America’s women: a shocking...

  5. Stage

    It’s Frank’s world — the singers at Quality Hill Playhouse just live in it

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: June 4, 2009

    Less than five minutes into All Sinatra, Quality Hill Playhouse's rousing but overstuffed cabaret tribute to the greatest pop singer of the 20th century, Jon Daugharthy set my...

  6. Night & Day

    Wordy Woman

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: May 28, 2009

    As the title of her one-woman show In Conclusive Woman implies, Julie Rae Pratt is, like most, a whole host of things at once — not only friend, lover, sister and mother,...

  7. Night & Day

    New Laughs

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: May 28, 2009

    Despite the half-filled bars and the departure of Stanford and Sons, comedy flourishes in Westport. Better still, it's of the low-price, off-the-cuff variety, with ComedyCity...

  8. Studies in Crap

    That Was Entertainment

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: May 28, 2009

    Once framed and hung in a Prairie Village kitchen, this single column of yellowed 1910 Kansas City Star newsprint heralds last century's theatrical amusements and serves as a...

  9. Critic's Choice

    Sugarland

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: May 28, 2009

    It's no insult to point out that country music radio confectioners Sugarland are about as pop as country comes. That's pop as it used to be: melodically unfussy, equal parts...

  10. Stage

    After seeing the Rep’s A Flea in Her Ear, the critic is buzzed

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: May 28, 2009

    At the Kansas City Repertory Theatre's dizzy, lavish A Flea in Her Ear, there's only one problem most audience members might face: They might be glutted. So generous is...

  11. Studies in Crap

    G-mail

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: May 21, 2009

    Title: E-mail From God for Teens Author: Claire and Curt Cloninger Publisher: RiverOak Publishing Date: 1999 Discovered at: Goodwill, Olathe The cover promises: Can God craft a...

  12. Critic's Choice

    They Might Be Giants

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: May 21, 2009

    The world could stand to be in love again, and the ocean levels are damn sure rising up, so here's to revisiting Flood, They Might Be Giants' brand-new record of 1990, that...

  13. Stage

    MET’s Kiss of the Spider Woman can’t quite escape its confines

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: May 21, 2009

    Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre's courageous production of Terrence McNally's Kiss of the Spider Woman (music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebbs) isn't quite what I would...

  14. Studies in Crap

    Back in Time

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: May 14, 2009

    Title: HBO & ZZ99 Present Starlight ’84 Summer Spectacular Publisher: New West and Contemporary Productions Date: 1984 Discovered at: Waldo Antiques The cover promises:...

  15. Stage

    Improv troupes kill in Westport; The Taffetas is a sugar rush

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: May 14, 2009

    Westport seemed slow on a Saturday night. As I scarfed a slice between comedy shows, the guy at Joe's Pizza confirmed it. "Yesterday was slow, too," he said to paramedics on a...

  16. Stage

    Bare at the Unicorn and The Witches at the Coterie: See ’em both in all their glory.

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: May 7, 2009

    Bare, the potent new musical at the Unicorn, tells a familiar story — Catholic-school boys struggling with their sexuality — in a familiar form. What's surprising...

  17. Studies in Crap

    Hope Heads South

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: May 7, 2009

    Title: Indian Creek Pathfinder Authors: The yearbook staff (and autograph givers) of Indian Creek Junior High School Date: 1971-72 school year Discovered at: 2nd Chance...

  18. Studies in Crap

    Cheer Up, Fatty

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: April 30, 2009

    Title: CHEERLEADING! Authors: Pauline Finberg and Peter Filichia Publisher: Scholastic Date: 1983 Discovered at: Used book store in Winnipeg, Manitoba The cover promises:...

  19. Stage

    Bare at the Unicorn and The Witches at the Coterie: See ’em both in all their glory

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: April 30, 2009

    Bare, the potent new musical at the Unicorn, tells a familiar story — Catholic-school boys struggling with their sexuality — in a familiar form. What's surprising...

  20. Night & Day

    Truly Masterful

    By Alan Scherstuhl
    Published: April 23, 2009

    We're anticipating that The Master and Margarita is going to be an event. It's the latest KC play to be directed by Barry Kyle, of the Royal goddamn Shakespeare Company (and...

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