OriginKC: World Premiere

Representatives for Those at Peace

Dec 2, 2023

A full-length play byMadeline Easley

In partnership with The Great Plains Theatre Commons (GPCT), Tofte Lakes Center, and Tulsa Artists fellowship, KCRep has inaugurated the Four Directions Playwright Residency for Native and Indigenous playwrights. In collaboration, each organization created a weeklong residency for Madeline Easley, over a one-year timeframe.

The culminating workshop and reading will take place on December 2nd at 5pm at Copaken Stage.

A panel discussion and project …

Flood

An OriginKC: World Premiere

Jan 31 – Feb 19, 2023

Written by:Mashuq Mushtaq Deen

Directed by:Kenneth Prestininzi

Located at:Copaken Stage

With humor, grace, and beauty, this absurdist tragic-comedy will stay with you long after it ends. We are honored to give this captivating new play its first full production.

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. …

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 …

Last Days of Summer

Sep 7 – Sep 30, 2018

Music by:Jason Howland

Book and Lyrics by:Steve Kluger

Based on the book by:Steve Kluger

Direction and Musical Staging by:Jeff Calhoun

By special arrangement with:Daryl Roth

Located at:Spencer Theatre

OriginKC: World Premiere

Based on the contemporary American classic novel by Steve Kluger, LAST DAYS OF SUMMER is the story of Joey Margolis, an imaginative and tenacious boy being raised by his mother and aunt in early 1940s Brooklyn. He and his best friend Craig Nakamura write letters to their hero, Charlie Banks, the all-star third basemen for …

Legacy Land

Mar 6 – Apr 5, 2020

Written by:Stacey Rose

Directed by:Logan Vaughn

Located at:Copaken Stage

OriginKC: World Premiere

Legacy Land, an honorable mention on the 2019 Kilroys List, is an unflinching dark comedic dive into the bizarre legacy that sexual abuse imprints upon the lives of sisters Barbara and Denise. Denise’s unexpected Thanksgiving homecoming upends Barbara and her young lover Marcus’s plans for a cozy weekend. When Denise’s domineering boyfriend Freddie reveals the …

Frankenstein: A Ghost Story

Mar 6 – Apr 5, 2020

Written by:Kyle Hatley

From the novel byMary Shelley

Directed by:Joanie Schultz

Located at:Copaken Stage

OriginKC: World Premiere

A storyteller, accompanied by a live musician, unravels Mary Shelley’s iconic 200-year-old science fiction tale as a haunting and heartbreaking cautionary tale like none other. That this tale is as important today as it was then, speaks to the human condition. “We tell stories because they teach us we’re not alone in our misery, or …