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Performance by Simon Carrington Chamber Singers was worth the wait

May 29, 5:54 PM

When the Simon Carrington Chamber Singers, performs in Kansas City, choral music enthusiasts understandably sit up and take notice, especially since concerts are few and far between. Their performance Saturday afternoon at Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral was well worth the wait.

KC THEATER | THE 2010-11 SEASON

Robert Trussell

Broadway rocks on with a new breed of musicals

By ROBERT TRUSSELL

The Kansas City Star

We’re long past the point where any piece of intellectual property — movie, play, novel, comic book — might be considered unsuitable or unfeasible for the Broadway stage. But the authorship of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” is worth noting: Bono and the Edge of the rock band U2.

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Review | 'On An Average Day' at The L:ving Room at the Pearl

May 29, 1:07 PM

Actors, especially young ones, love to fight. So it's fair to say that the real theater — when the audience's attention is wholly engaged — breaks out about three quarters of the way through "On An Average Day."

Review | MET’s ‘Light in the Piazza’ brightens and dims

May 28, 6:49 PM

Beware of demonic Shetland ponies. “The Light in the Piazza,” an award-winning quasi-operatic musical, gets a workmanlike production from the feisty Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre.

Review | 'The Light in the Piazza,' the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre

May 28, 8:31 AM

"The Light in the Piazza," an award-winning quasi-operatic musical about a rich woman's quandary when her mentally damaged daughter falls in love with a handsome young Italian, gets a workmanlike production from the feisty Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre.

Broadway rocks on with a new breed of musicals

May 29, 11:49 PM

We’re long past the point where any piece of intellectual property — movie, play, novel, comic book — might be considered unsuitable or unfeasible for the Broadway stage. But the authorship of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” is worth noting: Bono and the Edge of the rock band U2.

Theater review | ‘Red’ is a compelling portrait of an artist

May 26, 3:45 PM

NEW YORK | To the public, art is something to enjoy. Painters make pictures. Singers perform. Actors put on shows.

This summer, the park’s the thing for theater productions

May 27, 1:15 PM

Kansas City. Summer. Think brutal. So why, you may ask, would such a place have so much outdoor entertainment?

Denzel Washington hits home run in Broadway revival of ‘Fences’

May 24, 6:09 PM

NEW YORK | Sometimes a play can bring out the best in an actor. And then there are times when an actor brings out the best in a play. To watch Denzel Washington as an embittered ex-baseball player in August Wilson’s “Fences,” which claimed a Pulitzer Prize in 1987, is to be in the presence of artistry so pure, so organic, that at times the thin film of make-believe is simply torn away.

Feel the good vibe of 'Fela'

May 25, 6:49 PM

So it turns out a show with a messy structure and dissatisfying dramatic arc also happens to be one of the most exciting two hours of theater on Broadway at the moment. The show is “Fela!” and it celebrates the life and music of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.

Walken fits the bill perfectly in 'A Behanding in Spokane'

May 26, 9:35 AM

The question that lingers after watching Christopher Walken’s star turn in “A Behanding in Spokane” is how much of that unique weirdness is manufactured and how much of it is real.

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