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Night & Day
By Alan Scherstuhl
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
By Alan Scherstuhl
Title: The Counterfeit Candidate: Ronald Reagans
Backdoor Socialism in California
Author: Kent H. Steffgen
Publisher: National Issues, Las Vegas
Date: 1976
Discovered:...
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Night & Day
By Alan Scherstuhl
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
By Alan Scherstuhl
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
By Alan Scherstuhl
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
By Alan Scherstuhl
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
By Alan Scherstuhl
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
By Alan Scherstuhl
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
By Alan Scherstuhl
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
By Alan Scherstuhl
Title: Twenty-Fifth Biennial Report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture
Date: 1926
Discovered: at Prosperos Books, 1800 West 39th Street
Representative quotes:...
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Critic's Choice
By Alan Scherstuhl
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
By Alan Scherstuhl
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
By Alan Scherstuhl
Title: The Independent: Kansas Citys Weekly Journal of Society
Publisher: Mrs. Glee Gaylord and the Creel Publishing Company
Date: October 4, 1941
Discovered at:...
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Stage
By Alan Scherstuhl
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
By Alan Scherstuhl
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
By Alan Scherstuhl
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
By Alan Scherstuhl
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Stage
By Alan Scherstuhl
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
By Alan Scherstuhl
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
By Alan Scherstuhl
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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