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When did we stop telling folk tales? The days of white-haired elders sitting by fires under the stars recounting local legends might be over, but…
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Did Nazis fall in love?Of course they did, though it may be hard to associate the idea of that emotion with a society that committed human atrocities. But…
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Playwright Alice Carroll of Overland Park recently dropped off donations at a thrift store. A man in her age bracket got her attention. He said he was…
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The push for safe spaces and trigger warnings is leading many educators to more carefully curate their syllabi. The issue inspired creativity in a Kansas…
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Heidi Van is founder and producing artistic director of the Fishtank. But her new play, Death, By Shakespeare opened over the weekend not at her usual…
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David Hanson’s plays have been called experimental theater and high-concept art. He prefers “immersive theater,” citing his current production, Audience,…
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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…
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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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When he debuted his one-man show at Kansas City’s Fringe Festival in the summer of 2015, Ry Kincaid was already thinking ahead to the 2016 election. No…
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Can a play – even a short, ten-minute one-act – change the world we live in?That question is part of the mission of Alphabet Soup: Stories From Queer…
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It all started with Death of a Salesman.When up-and-coming Kansas City playwrights Sarah Aptilon, Victor Wishna and InbarKahnsat sat down and thought…