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With her stoic beauty, her uni-brow and her dark hair braided with flowers, the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has an iconic face. Kahlo died in the 1950s,…
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Terry Teachout, who writes for the "Wall Street Journal," sees at least 100 plays a year—about half of them are in New York City, and the other half are…
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Some of the basic lessons of “A Christmas Carol” have rubbed off on Nicole Marie Green and Logan Black, the actors who play Mrs. and Mr. Cratchit this…
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Eric Rosen is saying goodbye to Kansas City. But not without a few sniffles first.Rosen, who is moving to New York, began his role as artistic director of…
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Segment 1: Artistic director of the KC Rep is leaving soon. How has local theatre changed?After 10 years with the Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Eric…
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Segment 1: Swope Park is over twice the size of Central Park. Are we using it as well as we could?Swope Park is one of the largest municipal parks in the…
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Segment 1: A new play about gun violence in Kansas.Nathan Louis Jackson's new play, "Brother Toad," is set in Wyandotte County and Johnson County. It's…
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Across America, gentrification is pricing people out of the communities they grew up in. Today, we look at alternatives to avoid raising the cost of…
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Ten years ago, when Eric Rosen was angling for the job as artistic director of Kansas City Repertory Theatre, he pitched a new adaptation of A Christmas…
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Playwright August Wilson wrote a series of ten plays, one for each decade of the 20th century, that examines the black experience in America. Today,…
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The musical Between the Lines has been in development for the past three years. This weekend marks its debut at the Kansas City Repertory Theatre.The show…
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Play-reading isn't the type of thing most audiences expect to be raucous, but that's what's likely to happen at the Kansas City Rep's Playwright Slam on…