by Stephi Wild - November 19, 2024
KC Melting Pot Theatre will continue its 10th anniversary season with Lewis Morrow's Jawbone Crack Quick, under the direction of Ile Haggins. Learn more about the show here!...
by Alan Portner - July 01, 2024
BIG TROUBLE AT LITTLE YALTA is a comedic take by Neil Salvage on a not very well remembered, but extremely important meeting of world leaders during the waning days of the World War II in Europe. Almost all of what you see in our play is fiction, but a little understanding of what really transpired...
by Alan Portner - June 25, 2024
Recently, I watched and chuckled at an early rehearsal of a show called BIG TROUBLE AT LITTLE YALTA. Bob Paisley's Central Standard Theatre presents the World Premiere of YALTA scheduled for July 3 through July 7 at the Just Off-Broadway Theatre at 3051 Central in Kansas City....
by Alan Portner - December 04, 2023
Since 2010 Central Standard Theatre has been producing thought inducing, innovative theatre. Based in Kansas City, CST offers an international angle to the local theatre scene. With productions touring Britain, Ireland, Canada and Australia, CST offers the world a unique view of who we are in the ...
by Stephi Wild - September 05, 2023
KC Melting Pot Theatre will unveil its 10th season with a production of Aleshea Harris's Obie Award-winning masterpiece, 'Is God Is.' The production is directed by Lynn King....
Set in Pittsburgh’s Hill District in 1948, “Seven Guitars” follows the lives of seven African American characters as they navigate love, loss, and the pursuit ...
KU distinguished scholar/playwright of African and African American Studies Dr. Peter Ukpokodu will write and produce "The Search for Anno Domini MMXXI-I-VI," in partnership with ...
Edward Albee's classic play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf follows a middle-aged couple, George and Martha, as they manage the vulnerabilities of their marriage. George, a ...
The Session is an engaging play written by Harvey Williams from Kansas City, MO. It takes place in a small town and focuses on a ...
KCMPT presents a revival of James Baldwin's classic play The Amen Corner , directed by Melonnie Walker. The Amen Corner, Baldwin's first work for the stage ...
Is God Is , Aleshea Harris's Obie Award winning play, is a harrowing and epic tale of revenge. Twin sisters, Racine, and Anaia have received ...
Just Off Broadway Theatre is proud to announce its Summer Festival '23 featuring two plays, two play readings, and some of the finest local actors. ...
This play follows four generations of Tucker women who come together at their mother’s home to prepare a traditional stew for a very important day ...
In Fairview, we meet the Frasier family in the midst of a chaotic evening preparing for the family matriarch’s birthday dinner. Beverly, the hostess, is ...
It is 1936, and Boy Willie arrives in Pittsburg from the South in a battered truck loaded with watermelons to sell. He has an opportunity ...
Mother/son engages the aftereffects of parent-child relationships in this compelling story about race, redemption, and recovery. Lydia, a white woman who is married to a ...
Trish and Allen, a married couple in their 60s, plan an unforgettable party for a special occasion. As the festivities get underway, they discover that ...
KC Melting Pot Theatre is proud to return for our third year of this playwright festival. Our finalists are: Welcome to the Blue Swan by ...
When a group of Hollywood producers decide it would be a great idea to create a scripted African American reality show based on Molires The ...
Begetters by Lewis Morrows focuses on the twilight years of a long married African American couple, Spicer and Norma, whose caustic relationship has begun to ...
The OMallerys have gathered in their local park to share some barbecue and straight talk with their sister Barbara, whose spiral of drugs and recklessness ...
August Wilsons classic Two Trains Running, the 7th play in his ten-part series, takes place in the 1960s against the backdrop of a rumbling Civil ...
- Ntozake Shange; dir: Shirley Jo Finney....
KCMPT presents a revival of Adrienne Kennedys 1964 Obie Award-winning play Funnyhouse of a Negro at Just Off Broadway Theater May 3rd - May 18th. ...
The story follows a Baker and his wife who wish to have a child, Cinderella who wishes to attend the King's Festival, and Jack who ...
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