Season Tickets
Sweeney Todd
Mar 23Apr 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 2Mar 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 26Feb 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 13Nov 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 8Oct 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 20May 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 19May 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 22Apr 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 …

School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play
Feb 22Mar 17, 2019
Written by:Jocelyn Bioh
Directed by:Chip Miller
Located at:Copaken Stage

Paulina is the reigning Queen Bee at Ghana’s most exclusive boarding school, who has her sights set on the Miss Universe pageant. But the mid-year addition of Ericka, a student newly-arrived from America with undeniable talent and beauty, captures the attention of both the pageant recruiter and Paulina’s teenage “squad.” Jocelyn Bioh’s hilarious re-imagining of …

Indecent
Jan 20Feb 10, 2019
Written by:Paula Vogel
Directed by:Eric Rosen
A co-presentation with:Arena Stage and Baltimore Center Stage
Located at:Spencer Theatre

“A heart-stirring reminder of the power of art.” – Daily News

Paula Vogel’s deeply intimate, yet joyful and funny play is inspired by the true events surrounding the controversial 1923 Broadway debut of God of Vengeance, a play seen by some as a seminal work of Jewish culture — and as an obscenity by others. Ultimately …

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