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Welcome to Fear City
Welcome to Fear City
Apr 28 – May 27, 2018
Written by:Kara Lee Corthron
Directed by:Chip Miller
Located at:Copaken Stage
OriginKC: World Premiere
In this electrifying and alive story, a South Bronx boy searches for his poetic voice and wrestles with his identity. His neighborhood fights to survive following the 1977 blackout that rattled New York City and jump-started the hip-hop revolution.
Top: Nedra Dixon, Brianna Woods, Christopher Reed Brown, and Brandon J. Pierce in Welcome to Fear …
Brother Toad
Brother Toad
Apr 27 – May 27, 2018
Written by:Nathan Louis Jackson
Directed by:Melissa Crespo
Located at:Copaken Stage
OriginKC: World Premiere
Mellon Foundation KCRep Resident Playwright and Kansas City, Kansas resident, Nathan Louis Jackson (Sticky Traps, Broke-ology, When I Come To Die) asks us to bear witness to the humanity behind the choices made regarding guns and family in our City’s black community.
Nathan Louis Jackson and Kansas City Repertory Theatre are participants in the Andrew W. …
Sweeney Todd
Sweeney Todd
Mar 23 – Apr 15, 2018
Music and Lyrics by:Stephen Sondheim
Books by:Hugh Wheeler
From an Adaptation by:Christopher Bond
Directed by:Eric Rosen
Located at:Spencer Theatre
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (A Musical Thriller) tells the story of an obsessively vengeful barber and his twisted partnership with the outrageous Mrs. Lovett who together, devise a devilish plot to add a special ingredient to a recipe that has all of London dying for their pies. Sondheim’s gloriously gruesome and …
Sex with Strangers
Sex with Strangers
Mar 2 – Mar 25, 2018
Written by:Laura Eason
Directed by:Chip Miller
Located at:Copaken Stage
Desire, intellect, and secret agendas collide in this smart, tantalizing take on modern love and the double-edged quest for artistic validation in the digital age. Olivia, an obscure novelist on the cusp of 40, is trapped in a secluded B & B with Ethan, a wildly successful blogger 10 years her junior. Opposites attract, passions …
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Jan 26 – Feb 18, 2018
Written by:Simon Stephens
Based on the novel by:Mark Haddon
Directed by:Marissa Wolf
Located at:Spencer Theatre
Winner of the 2015 Tony Award for Best Play, Curious Incident tells the story of 15-year-old Christopher, a boy with an extraordinary brain who is exceptionally intelligent but ill-equipped for dealing with everyday life. When Christopher falls under suspicion for killing the neighbor’s dog, he sets out on a journey to find the real culprit …
Fences
Fences
Oct 13 – Nov 5, 2017
Written by:August Wilson
Directed by:Ron OJ Parson
Located at:Copaken Stage
The winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play that same year, Fences is set in 1950s Pittsburgh against the backdrop of a rapidly changing America. Perhaps the most highly-regarded of Wilson’s soaring ten-play cycle, it tells the gripping story of an African American father and son and …
Between the Lines
Between the Lines
Sep 8 – Oct 1, 2017
Music and Lyrics by:Elyssa Samsel and Kate Anderson
Book by:Timothy Allen McDonald
Based on the books by:Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer
Orchestrations & Arrangements by:Greg Anthony Rassen
Directed by:Jeff Calhoun
Located at:Spencer Theatre
OriginKC: World Premiere
From the producers of KINKY BOOTS and GROUNDHOG DAY comes the World Premiere Musical BETWEEN THE LINES, based on the best-selling novel by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer and directed by Jeff Calhoun (NEWSIES).
BETWEEN THE LINES is the story of seventeen-year-old Delilah McPhee, whose life is turned upside down by her parents’ divorce. Forced …
Unreliable
Unreliable
Apr 20 – May 19, 2019
Written by:Dipika Guha
Directed by:Ailin Conant
Located at:Copaken Stage
OriginKC: World Premiere
Gretchen is a lawyer. Yusuf is her client. Yusuf is being held indefinitely without trial for terrorism. Hattie is Gretchen’s mother. Only, Hattie thinks Gretchen is a secretary, Gretchen thinks Hattie is sick and Yusuf believes he’s been framed. In a world of competing narratives, facts no longer exist. Which of these people are grounded …
Frida…a self portrait
Frida…a self portrait
Apr 19 – May 19, 2019
Written by:Vanessa Severo
Directed by:Joanie Schultz
Located at:Copaken Stage
OriginKC: World Premiere
After suffering polio as a child, a grisly bus accident in her teens that left her with permanent injuries and in almost constant pain, and an addiction to Morphine, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo’s life is explored in this astonishing play by KCRep’s Fox Fellowship Resident Actor Vanessa Severo. Through beautiful physicality and raw honesty, the …