Kansas City Repertory Theatre Announces 2025 Schedule For BROKE-OLOGY All Free Community Tour
KCRep for All is in its fourth year and has been met with enthusiasm.
By: A.A. Cristi Feb. 06, 2025
Kansas City Repertory Theatre has announced the 2025 tour schedule of KCRep for All, a FREE community tour bringing Broke-ology to Kansas City community centers, public libraries, and non-profit organization spaces. KCRep for All is in its fourth year and has been met with enthusiasm.
KCRep for All breaks down economic and geographic barriers and makes theatre more accessible as KCRep travels across the region to perform in local communities. This program is inspired by The Old Globe's Globe for All program in San Diego.
Performing the same script as seen on KCRep's main stage, the show is re-staged and re-imagined to bring theater to neighborhoods, connecting with community members where they live. Following its public run at Copaken Stage, Broke-ology will embark on the fourth annual KCRep for All tour across the Kansas City metro, in libraries, colleges and community centers throughout our area, with performance dates from March 6 through March 16. Tour patrons see the show free of charge. More information about KCRep for All can be found at kcrep.org/kcrep-for-all/. Tour dates and locations are also listed below.
Diving deep into a heartwarming working-class neighborhood in Kansas City, Kansas, Broke-ology, from Nathan Louis Jackson, is a warm and poignant work that explores the complexities of family, sacrifice and resilience. Directed by Francois Battiste and starring Robert Coppage III, Raffeal Sears, Melvin Abston and Teonna Wesley. Photos, bios and more can be found at KCRep press.
Nathan Louis Jackson, a Kansas City, Kansas, native who was the KC Rep's playwright in residence from 2013 to 2019, died at the age of 44. He wrote Broke-ology while a student at the famed Juilliard School in New York. It premiered in 2008 at the Williamstown Theater Festival in Massachusetts and opened a year later, with Wendell Pierce in the lead role, on Broadway at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center.
The free community tour of Broke-ology is led by Associate Artistic Director Morgana Wilborn. She stated, “We are thrilled to fulfill both Nathan's vision and our mission of making theatre accessible to all for the fourth year of KCRep for All. Bringing the heartfelt experience of Broke-ology to neighborhoods across Kansas City allows us to connect, inspire, and celebrate community in a truly meaningful way.”
KCRep for All 2025 Tour
Thurs., March 6, 7:00 p.m.
Washington High School
7340 Leavenworth Rd.
Kansas City, KS 66109
Friday, March 7, 2:00 p.m.
Beatrice Lee Community Center
1310 N 10th St
Kansas City, KS 66101
Saturday, March 8, 1:00 p.m.
Johnson County Central Resource Library
9875 W 87th St
Overland Park, KS 66212
Wednesday, March 12, 1:00 p.m.
Kansas City Public Library, North-East Branch
6000 Wilson. Ave
Kansas City, MO 64123
Thursday, March 13, 6:00 p.m.
Kansas City, Kansas Public Library--West Wyandotte Library
1737 N 82 St
Kansas City, KS 66112
Friday, March 14, 6:00 p.m.
Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage Center and Museum
3700 Blue Parkway
Kansas City, MO 64130
Sunday, March 16, 2:00 p.m.
Kansas City Community College Performing Arts Building
7250 State Ave
Kansas City, KS 66112
Morning Star Youth and Family Life Center *
2411 E 27th St.
Kansas City, MO 64127
Veterans Community Project*
8900 Troost Ave
Kansas City, MO 64131
Don Bosco Senior Center*
580 Campbell St
Kansas City, MO 64106
* Additional location partners for closed performance
Each performance will feature a post-show talk back with cast and crew.
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