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The Kansas City Repertory Theatre will stage six performances on the south lawn of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in October.
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Segment 1: What if instead of the Confederate flag, the symbol of the Civil War was a worn out dish rag?The current exhibit at H&R Block Artspace is about…
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In his new play, Nathan Louis Jackson draws on his own life to tackle the issue of gun violence.“Brother Toad” tells the story of two men who are related…
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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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“Let’s hear what you've got,” Nathan Louis Jackson says to Roben Pope, a junior at Central Academy of Excellence in Kansas City, Missouri.Jackson rests…
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For his day job, he smoked ribs at a barbecue joint. But his secret identity was a playwright. Hear Nathan Louis Jackson's journey to becoming a writer…
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"Growing up, I thought I lived in like a black city," says Nathan Louis Jackson, who spent his childhood and early adulthood in the Quindaro neighborhood…
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Meet the KCK native who is the resident playwright at the KC Rep and one of the writers for "Marvel's Luke Cage" on Netflix.Guest:Nathan Louis Jackson,…
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This was the year the Kansas City Ballet re-imagined “The Nutcracker.” Henry David Thoreau and Barbra Streisand got theatrical treatments, and the Kansas…
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Long-haired peace-loving hippies promoting ideas of free love are the foundation of the ground-breaking 1967 musical "Hair".On Friday's Up to Date, we…
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Angels in America is Tony Kushner’s two-part epic now playing at the Kansas City Repertory Theatre. Set in New York in the 1980s, it’s a commentary on…
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Even if you’ve visited Grover’s Corners before, you might not recognize it now. Thornton Wilder’s classic town is getting a makeover.On Tuesday's Up to…