Category: Reviews
Ballet plus aerial combine for ‘Cracked!’
Bob EvansDec 07, 2019
By Rebecca Ralstin, guest reviewer VidaDance Company and Kansas City Aerial Arts presents “Cracked! A Reimagined Kansas City Nutcracker” at the City Stage in Union...
Milking Christmas returns to Living Room Theatre
Bob EvansDec 05, 2019
By guest reviewer Rebecca Ralstin The Living Room Theatre of Kansas City delivers again with its energetic and infectiously funny production of the...
‘Christmas Pageant’ surpasses other remounts of classic
Bob EvansDec 03, 2019
Forget any previous version of the children’s classic, “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,” and rush to secure seats for the new Theatre for Young America’s...
Scott Cox’s “And God Did Shake The Pear…” greatly entertains
What do you get when you cross a reading from a local phone book with excerpts from Shakespeare, sprinkled with various real-life prison anecdotes? A hilarious and...
Ebenezer Scrooge bestows Christmas joy at KC Rep
Bob EvansDec 02, 2019
A season-welcoming holiday classic, “A Christmas Carol” renews Kansas City’s love for Charles Dickens’ most riveting curmudgeon, Ebenezer Scrooge, who discovers...
‘Nuncrackers’ brings holiday smiles to Leawood
Bob EvansNov 19, 2019
In a time when everyone scrambles to find extra money, the priest and nuns in the Mount Saint Helen’s Convent also need money to support their parish and the work they...
Disturbing racial divide surfaces in ‘Blood Knot’
Bob EvansNov 19, 2019
“Clothes make the Man” catalyzes devastatingly angry conflict between two half-brothers in a gruesome look into South African Apartheid in Athol Fugard’s...
Movie adaptation brings ‘Victor/Victoria’ to stage
Bob EvansNov 17, 2019
By guest reviewer Rebecca Ralstin “Victoria/Victoria” could seem both timely and yet out of step with the moment; but, The Barn’s production of the musical,...
‘La Boheme’ enthralls at Lyric Opera
Lyric Opera Kansas City’s production of Giacomo Puccini’s classic love story “La Boheme” is either: An exquisite and beautiful presentation of a timeless classic...
Love challenges gender identity in twisted ‘Victor/Victoria’ comedy
Bob EvansNov 15, 2019
How’s this: A woman plays a man who plays a woman on stage? Confused? Throw in a man falling in love with the illusion of a woman playing a man, only to discover...
