Kristi LewczenkoZacahary M. Andrews and Julane Havens in I spilled out of The Master & Margarita drunk on what I'd seen. A comic, wicked, sensual, absurd and moral adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's all-that-times-a-thousand novel about the devil coming to Soviet Moscow, this UMKC production bursts with marvels. A short list: luminous moonscapes, women bewitched into flight, the devil's own magic show, a cat in a gunfight, the anguish of Pontius Pilate, and many beheadings (comic and not).
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UMKC's production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia closes this Sunday, before our next issue goes to press. Because it's a fine production of a play touched with greatness, we're running a review here, now. Also, the review doesn't mention lights or sound or costumes, which all were fine, because, Christ, have you ever tried to summarize Arcadia?
Kristi LewczenkoZachary M. Andrews and Anna Safar​
Just a year or so back, when UMKC's Graduate Theatre Department often outdid the Repertory Theatre with w
Zachary Andrews, Amy Urbina and James Taylor play real life Kansas Citians in Slammed!​Since I've learned to expect excellence from the theater department at UMKC, I felt little surprise that last night's performance of Slammed!: KC Speaks Out on the Recession was lively, engaging theater acted, designed and directed by some of this town's finest.
What did surprise, however, was the depth of its reporting. Boiling over with local voices, stories and concerns, with tales of layo
