by A.A. Cristi - February 13, 2025
Kansas City Actors Theatre (KCAT) wraps up their 20th Anniversary Season with the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning Doubt: A Parable, by John Patrick Shanley....
by Stephi Wild - December 18, 2024
Kansas City Actors Theatre has announced the line-up for its 21st Season, running from May 2025 through March 2026. Learn more about the full lineup and find out how to get tickets ehre!...
by Alan Portner - September 17, 2024
It is a quest to commit the perfect murder, and it almost works. “Dial M For Murder” is the twisted story of a failed novelist who has married an heiress and has decided to do her in to inherit her millions....
by A.A. Cristi - September 03, 2024
Kansas City Actors Theatre will present DIAL M FOR MURDER beginning next week at the City Stage. ...
by A.A. Cristi - August 30, 2024
Victor Wishna's play 'Tree of Life' explores Jewish continuity through the story of a small synagogue in Ottumwa, Iowa, and its Torah scroll's journey to a new congregation in South America....
by Alan Portner - August 14, 2024
It is funny. It is a slice of life. It is a literal peek behind the curtain. Kansas City Actors Theatre production of Alice Childress’s TROUBLE IN MIND allows audiences a long-delayed opportunity to vision America (and its theatrical community) as it appeared in 1955 from an African American point o...
by Blair Ingenthron - July 14, 2024
Kansas City Actors Theatre will continue their 2024/2025 20th Anniversary Season with Trouble in Mind by Alice Childress. Over 65 years after it was written, Trouble in Mind finally made its Broadway debut in late-2021, and comes to the City Stage this August! ...
by Alan Portner - May 26, 2024
The Lehman Trilogy studies American Dream Mythology as seen through the eyes of Italian playwright and poet Stefano Massini. The English translation by Ben Power transfigures itself into an absorbing and poignant exercise in stellar storytelling as one might imagine it by three brothers around a met...
by Stephi Wild - May 03, 2024
Kansas City Actors Theatre will kick off its 2024/2025 20th Anniversary Season of productions with the award-winning The Lehman Trilogy by Stefano Massini, adapted to English by Ben Power. ...
by Alan Portner - January 20, 2024
They say you never forget your first. That was certainly the situation for a former Scotland Yard Police Inspector named Rough (played by John Rensenhouse). Oddly, Inspector Rough had no known first name. Rough’s first bloody murder case in 1865 remained unsolved fifteen years after the event....
Kansas City Actors Theatre presents Dial M for Murder, a psychological thriller directed by Katie Gilchrist and adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from Frederick Knott's original ...
This incredible 1938 Victorian thriller, famous for its Academy Award winning adaptation to the big screen, details the dark tale of a marriage based on ...
The play centers around a couple, Nancy and Bill, who have been married for 50 years. They decide to move to a retirement community called ...
Smart People is a great ride! (Deadline) Written by Lydia R. Diamond, winner of the Lorraine Hansberry Award Winner for Best Writing. Smart People is ...
A thoroughly entertaining comedy-drama (The New York Times) From Tony Award Nominated playwright Colman Domingo. Dot chronicles a West Philadelphia family dealing with the matriarchs ...
Sometimes we come across a piece of first-person writing that shocks us back into a restorative innocence vis--vis the human heart. (The New York Times) ...
Newly translated and adapted by UMKC professor Dr. Felicia Londré as part of the city-wide celebration, “KC MOlière: 400 in 2022,” “The Pests” follows the ...
Developed specifically as a world premiere in honor of the Auschwitz exhibit, this emotionally charged theatrical event draws on the diary entries from teenagers who ...
Twenty years ago, Pastor Paul’s church was nothing more than a modest storefront. Now he presides over a congregation of thousands, with classrooms for Sunday ...
Kansas City Actors Theatre Harold Pinter...
Kansas City Actors Theatre will present an original online play, "Get Us Out of These Boxes: A Zoom Christmas Carol," written by KCAT company member ...
Conor McPherson's booze-soaked tale of art, obsession, and the supernatural. Audience-favorite Victor Raider-Wexler (Mornings at Seven, And Then There Were None, The Gin Game) regales ...
Jessie feels like a stranger in her own story, and shes ready to end it. Marsha Norman's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama is the story of a ...
Marsha Norman Kansas City Actors Theatre...
Athol Fugard's semi-autobiographical, Drama Desk Award-winning Master Harold and the Boys is often regarded as one of the esteemed South African playwrights best works. In ...
Nora Helmer fights to save her family and herself from scandal in Henrik Ibsen's classic play that sparked controversy when it was first produced 140 ...
The four Gibbs sisters have reached their Golden Years, and life should be easy. But its never so when your neighbors are relatives, and with ...
Paulina Salas, a former political prisoner, and her husband Gerardo Escobar, a lawyer, live in a time of transition as their country shifts from dictatorship ...
Mitch Brian; dir: John Rensenhouse. World Premiere...
Gardner McKay; dir: Jan Rogge. H&R Block City Stage:...
William Shakespeare; dir: Ed Stern....
After a severe incident of spousal abuse tears Jake and Beth apart, their two families hole up to await the backlash. Set in rural California ...
Ten suspicious and malicious souls are alone on an island when murder ensues in Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. Considered by many to ...
Will Eno....
Kansas City Actors Theatre introduces Israel Horovitz, an acclaimed but neglected playwright, with this witty, wise and romantic play. When a failed American novelist inherits ...
After losing her Mississippi home to creditors, Blanche du Bois relocates to the New Orleans home of her younger sister and brother-in-law, Stella and Stanley ...
After losing her Mississippi home to creditors, Blanche du Bois relocates to the New Orleans home of her younger sister and brother-in-law, Stella and Stanley ...
Herb Gardner; dir: Dennis Hennessy....
Herb Gardner; dir: Dennis Hennessy....
Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play. The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the ...
J.C. Nichols Auditorium: R.C. Sherriff; dir: Mark Robbins....
by Jeffrey Hatcher Tell-Tale is the story of Emil, the mild-mannered undertaker whose unspoken passion for a local real-estate woman who comes to all his ...
Eugene O'Neill; dir: John Rensenhouse....
William Inge's beautiful story of love, regret, and the courage to pursue one's dreams in 1950's small-town America....
Our partnership with UMKC Theatre and one of Kansas City’s true gems, the National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, continues following last season’s ...
Two couples meet to have a civil discussion regarding a schoolyard fight between their sons. What results is a savagely hysterical night of tantrums and ...
The Birthday Party was the first full-length offering from British playwright Harold Pinter, who is now widely regarded as the theatre’s master of enigma and ...
The Collection focuses on sexual relationships—hetero-, homo- and bi—and shows us the corrosive effects of jealousy and suspicion. The play brings us into the lives ...
One Time Only…First in a series of readings highlighting additional works by this season’s playwrights. Union Station’s H&R Block City Stage....
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