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Segment 1: Criminal charges in Schlitterbahn death come amid push for tighter regulations on Kansas amusement parks.Last week, three Schlitterbahn…
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A new theater troupe in Kansas City is staging monthly play readings in an unlikely venue: a bar.That’s part of the Kansas City Public Theatre’s mission.…
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Seg. 1: KC Public Theatre + Playwright Lindsay Adams. Seg. 2: Natasha El-Scari. Seg. 3: Mundo Nouvo.Segment 1: A new group wants to make theater accessible to everyone.What if you could see a play for free in a non-traditional venue? Well, now you can.…
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Kansas City has a wide range of theater venues, from tiny spaces that seat only a couple dozen people to the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. And…
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On our First Friday arts show: a local artist has been keeping a dream journal for over 40 years. In his new exhibit, he's brought recurring objects from…
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Playwright Laurie Brooks has tackled challenging subjects for young adults — from the Salem witch trials to bullying. Her latest play, The Secret of…
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Playwright Karen Hartman knew her work "Project Dawn" dealt with intense material. Its story, about women with multiple prostitution convictions who are…
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Although he wrote one of the greatest romances of all time, William Shakespeare isn’t generally known as a sexy playwright. But a Shakespeare expert plans…
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Victor Raider-Wexler, a venerable actor with a voice as deep as magma, has never performed as a woman before. “It’s a brand new thing," he says of his…
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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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It was a year ago when the Kansas City Actors Theatre decided to produce Sam Shepard's play “A Lie of the Mind” this season. When Shepard died in July,…
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Meet the creative forces behind some of the exciting art stuff going on in September. We talk to the director of a play where ten manly explorers are…