Events – Page 4

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 …

Pride & Prejudice

Mar 22 – Apr 20, 2019

Based on the novel by:Jane Austen

Written by:Kate Hamill

Directed by:Marissa Wolf

Located at:Spencer Theatre

Finding a husband is hardly Elizabeth Bennet’s most urgent priority. But with four sisters, an overzealous mother and a string of unsuitable suitors, it’s a difficult subject to escape. When the independent Elizabeth meets the handsome but enigmatic Mr. Darcy, all feelings of attraction are muted by his pride and her prejudice. Kate Hamill’s celebrated …