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Sunday, November 29, 2009 
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Friday, May 22, 2009 
Plan your Memorial Day getaway at
The Frisky Puss Hotel
Reservations start as low as $10!
Katie Kalahurka (Antoinette), Jonathan
Root (Camille) Photo: Don Ipock

Looking for something to do with friends and family Memorial Day weekend? Put away the bug spray and break out your funny bone with A Flea in her Ear! Mistaken identities, misunderstandings, and mad-cap chases will have you rolling in the aisle.

Watch a video preview here.

Gary Griffin, director of Broadway's The Color Purple, makes his Rep debut in this brilliant new adaptation of this hilarious comedy.A Flea in her Ear was recently featured in Playbill! Read the article here.

A Flea in Her Ear
 May 15-June 7 at Spencer Theatre
Memorial Day specials:
Saturday 2 & 7 p.m. $20
Sunday 2 & 7 p.m. $10

To reserve today, visit kcrep.org
No promo code needed!

Not valid with any other offer or discount. Valid only for May 15-24 performances.
This show is suggested for pre-teens and up.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An Interview with Gary Griffin (Part 2 of 3)

 Gary Griffin on the set of A Flea in Her Ear.
Photo:  Don Ipock
"I called The Color Purple an act of sculpture,” A Flea in Her Ear director Gary Griffin recently said. “Michelangelo said ‘I didn’t create the statue of David, I took away everything that wasn’t David’ and that was what I thought we were doing with The Color Purple." Read more about Gary Griffin's work on the award-winning musical version of The Color Purple. Part 1 

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The 09-10 Season announced!
THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES
Grand Hotel: The Musical
Sep. 11-Oct. 4       Spencer Theatre
Broadway sensation Moises Kaufman makes his directorial
debut at the Rep with this classic Tony Award winning musical.

M. Proust
Oct. 9-Nov. 15   
Copaken Stage
Tony nominee Mary Beth Peil
gives a riveting one-woman performance exploring the mind of Marcel Proust in this play by Mary Zimmerman (The Arabian Nights, Metamorphoses). Directed by Artistic Director Eric Rosen.

Around the World in 80 Days
Jan. 22-Feb. 14   
Spencer Theatre
Your entire family can travel the world
in a beautiful and exotic new interpretation
of this Jules Verne classic.

Broke-ology
Feb. 19-Mar. 21       Copaken Stage
An emotionally powerful new play by KCK playwright
Nathan Louis Jackson about the struggles of an
African-American family in our city.

TBA
Mar. 12-Apr. 4       Spencer Theatre
Once again you will be entranced by the
brilliance of David Cromer (The Glass Menagerie)
in a new take on an American classic.
Venice Ensemble in Center Theatre Group’s
workshop presentation of Venice.
Venice
Apr. 9-May 9       Copaken Stage
The latest collaboration between Matt Sax (Clay) 
and Eric Rosen--an original new musical that
will make your heart pound.



A Christmas StorySpecial Event!
A Christmas Story, The Musical!
Nov. 20-Dec. 27   
Spencer Theatre
Based on the most beloved
Christmas movie of all time,  this major new Broadway-bound musical is destined to become a holiday classic.
See it first at the Rep!


See all 6 shows for as low as $120!
Read more about pricing...

Season tickets are now on sale online.
 Besides getting the best seats for the best prices, season ticket
holders get free exchanges, local arts and restaurant
discounts, advance seating for special events and more!

Order your season tickets today at kcrep.org
or by calling 816-235-2700.

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Friday, April 10, 2009 

Current mood:  scared
The Borderland to thrill audiences at special 11 p.m. show!
Prepare to be scared! The Rep presents Jim Grimsley’s chilling "The Borderland" on Friday, April 24th at 11 p.m. The show plays at Copaken Stage in the heart of the Power and Light District! Tickets just $25; all beer $2.

What's it about? A young couple escapes the rat-race of the big city by moving to the country only to find their illusion of security quickly upended when a young mother of five seeks refuge from an abusive husband.
What's the buzz? Read the KC Star story.....

SPECIAL! If you're coming to the 11 p.m. performance, you can get a free glass of wine or appetizer* at Vinino and Maker's Mark in the Power and Light District.
Reserve your seats today at kcrep.org or call 816-235-2700.
*with the purchase of an entree. Not valid with any other offer or discount.
Photo credit: Matthew Brumlow (Jake) and Matthew Rapport (Gordon) in The Borderland Photo: Don Ipock
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Thursday, February 26, 2009 





Only 5 performances remaining!
Last Chance! $20 Tickets to The Arabian Nights

The ensemble of The Arabian Nights. Photo: kevinberne.com


Don't miss this stunning theatrical event, a series of stories brilliantly woven by the beautiful princess Scheherezade to save her own life. As long as she can keep the king entertained with her magical stories of beauty, honor, love, and the search for wisdom, he will spare her. The KC Star called it "exceptional, unique and an example of the highest level of professionalism a theatergoer can expect to see in Kansas City — or anywhere."

All remaining seats for Feb. 26-Mar. 1 only $20!

To receive your discount, log on to kcrep.org
with promocode FINALWEEK or call 816-235-2700.
Not valid with any other offer or discount.







KC Rep's new musical Winesburg, Ohio in Playbill

Winesburg, Ohio

"Winesburg, Ohio, the musical acclaimed in earlier productions in Chicago and Philadelphia, gets a new production by Kansas City Rep beginning March 13. Broadway's Nancy Anderson, Leslie Dennison, James Judy and Geoff Packard are in the cast of 13.

"Eric Rosen, the Rep's new artistic director, who wrote book and lyrics for Winesburg, Ohio, directs the musical based on Sherwood Anderson's novel about "the hopes, dreams and inner desires of the residents of a small Midwestern town," as the Rep puts it.

"The music (and additional lyrics) by Andre Pluess and Ben Sussman "is based on a century-old American folk style that is steeped in the land and the people of the Midwest and evokes memories of earlier and simpler times." Read more...

You can get 2-for-1 tickets for Mar. 13-19 performances when you log in with promocode MUSICAL. Get your tickets today! 

Not valid with any other offer or discount. Valid only on Mar. 13-19 performances.
Not valid for Wine and Burgers Dinner.

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Friday, February 20, 2009 
Bring a friend for free to Winesburg, Ohio

Lesley Bevan and Jeff Parker in the original About Face Theatre
production of Winesburg, Ohio. Photo by Michael Brosilow

Directed by Artistic Director Eric Rosen
Be one of the first to see this brand new musical

Mar. 13-Apr. 5 at Spencer Theatre

Bring a friend for free when you buy a ticket to March 13-19 performances of Winesburg, Ohio. Created by KC Rep’s Artistic Director Eric Rosen and three of Chicago’s most talented theatre artists, this brilliant new musical won the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Work and the Barrymore Award for Best Musical. At once hilarious, heartbreaking, and triumphant, Winesburg, Ohio is one of the most original new musicals to come along this decade, and an homage to one of the greatest works of 20th century literature. You won't want to miss it! Reserve your seats today!

To receive your discount, just log on today
to kcrep.org with promocode MUSICAL.
Not valid with any other offer or discount. You must buy at least one regularly priced single ticket in order to receive your free ticket. Valid only on Mar. 13-19 performances.


What is Winesburg, Ohio about?

Based on Sherwood Anderson’s classic stories of life in a small Midwestern town at the turn of the 19th century, Winesburg is the story of George Willard, full of hopes for a great life as an artist. One by one, George encounters the citizens of Winesburg, and begins to learn that secret histories and deep hidden passions are lurking just beneath the surface.

Take advantage of this deal today by
visiting kcrep.org or calling 816-235-2700.


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Thursday, February 19, 2009 

The Arabian Nights
Ensemble of The Arabian Nights. Photo: kevinberne.com

Amazing reviews! Standing ovations! Tickets are selling so fast, we decided to give you one more week to get in to see this amazing epic.


The Arabian Nights is a series of stories, some beautiful and poetic, some rollicking and risque, woven by the princess Scheherezade to save her own life. You won't want to miss it! 

The reviews are in! 
Alan Scherstuhl of the Pitch just released his amazing review of the show online. He said,"I wish theater this transporting wasn't so rare." Read the full Pitch review here...

And, if you missed it, the Star's Robert Trussell also raved about The Arabian Nights. "I need new ways of saying a show is exceptional, unique and an example of the highest level of professionalism a theatergoer can expect to see in Kansas City — or anywhere." Read full KC Star Review here...


Don't miss the Kansas City theatre event of the season!
Click here to buy tickets now.

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Saturday, February 07, 2009 
Robert Trussell of the KC Star loved "The Arabian Nights" and you will too!
'Arabian Nights’ continues Rosen’s stellar run at KC Rep
"I need to expand my vocabulary. I need new ways of saying a show is exceptional, unique and an example of the highest level of professionalism a theatergoer can expect to see in Kansas City — or anywhere. That’s basically been my response to three of the four productions we’ve seen so far in Eric Rosen’s inaugural season as Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s artistic director.
"The latest is Mary Zimmerman’s “The Arabian Nights,” an intoxicating mix of music, imagery, storytelling and heightened theatricality. One could argue that the piece is too long and that her acknowledgment in the final moments of the cultural destruction wrought by the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq is unnecessary. But you can’t fault the ensemble performances or the sheer audacity of Zimmerman’s vision."
Read more here...
Buy tickets at adventuroustheatre.com or by calling 816-235-2700.
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Saturday, February 07, 2009 
The Glass Menagerie review in the Wall Street Journal

Compelling Stagings That Serve Two Great Plays Well

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The greatest of all American plays has received a production worthy of its beauty and truth. Tennessee Williams's "The Glass Menagerie," one of the immortal masterpieces of 20th-century theater, is currently being performed by Kansas City Repertory Theater in a staging by David Cromer, whose Writers' Theatre revival of "Picnic" was the best show I saw last year, not just in Chicago (where Mr. Cromer and most of his production team are based) but anywhere in America. His "Glass Menagerie" is fully as impressive. Mr. Cromer has the uncanny ability to take a too-familiar script and make it seem entirely new -- yet it is his special gift to serve the plays that he stages, rather than twisting them into unrecognizable and irrelevant shapes. Such is the essence of re-creative genius.

So what has Mr. Cromer done with "The Glass Menagerie"? To begin with, he has collaborated closely with his designers to create a visual environment for Williams's play that looks nothing like any "Glass Menagerie" I've ever seen, even though it is fundamentally faithful to both the spirit and the letter of the text. At the center of Collette Pollard's set is a cramped, shabby tenement apartment identical to the one described in Williams's stage directions -- except that the walls of the living room have been ripped away and are hanging askew in midair. Throughout the evening a stream of images related to the play is projected on these walls: words and phrases plucked from the script, "home movies" of the characters as seen in their youth, live close-ups of the actors that are shot by video cameras concealed on the set. Read more...

The Glass Menagerie at Copaken Stage, extended thru Feb. 15--Great seats still available!

Buy tickets today online at
adventuroustheatre.com or call 816-235-2700.
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Thursday, February 05, 2009 


http://www.kansascity.com/620/story/1018309.html

Read this AWESOME reivew of THE ARABIAN NIGHTS by Robert Trussell in The Kansas City Star. The show is running at Kansas City Repertory Theatre!

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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 

As a thank you for being our friend on MySpace, the Rep would like to offer you and your friends $15 tickets to preview performances* of The Arabian Nights! This amazing show by Mary Zimmerman (Metamorphoses) will only be at the Rep's Spencer Theatre until Feb. 22. See it early before the extraordinary buzz about this show makes tickets disappear faster than a desert mirage!

The only catch? You must spread the word about the fantastic time you had at the Rep! Deal?....


Don't miss the Kansas City theatre event of the season! Get $15 tickets when you attend Jan. 30-Feb. 5 performances. To receive your discount, log on to kcrep.org with promocode NIGHTS. Buy tickets now.....

*Preview performances are Jan. 30-Feb. 5 only. Not valid with any other offer or discount.....
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The Glass Menagerie extended through Feb. 15! 

"Anyone who wants to experience theater like they never have needs to beat a path to Copaken Stage," Robert Trussell of the KC Star instructed readers in his review Friday.

We at the Rep couldn't agree more! That's why we've made it even easier to get in to see Tennessee Williams' classic by extending the show for one more week. That means fantastic seats have just opened up for one of the most talked-about shows in town. And with prices starting at $15, it's affordable for everyone!
More about the show... Or buy tickets now.....


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