January 19,2019 Death and the Maiden at Kansas City Actors Theatre is riveting – this is the play for our times. The setting is banal. A house by the sea, simple furnishings,…
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Theater reviews
A Moon for the Misbegotten – review by Frank C. Siraguso
Eugene O’Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten, the sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning A Long Day’s Journey into Night, is a hard-bitten play about love, dissembling, and destruction, with a side of…
Blithe Spirit – review by Frank C. Siraguso
KC Actors Theatre season opener, Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit, laughs in the face of death. A “farce in three acts,” as Coward describes it, Blithe Spirit centers on the relationships of novelist…
Skylight – review by Frank C. Siraguso
Tom and Kyra confront their past and present lives in the KC Actors production of David Hare’s Skylight. May 28, 2018 If you caught any press releases of Skylight, the spring 2018…
The Barber of Seville – Review by Frank C. Siraguso
The Lyric Opera’s production of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville is a light, preposterous love story that is the ancestor of 1930s screwball comedies. Based on Le Barbier de Séville, a French…
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
– theater review by Frank C. Siraguso
The Rep’s production of Simon Stephens’ adaption of Mark Haddon’s novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, is a brilliant gem of many facets (Cast photo: KC Rep/Cory Weaver)…
Sea Marks – Theater Review by Frank C. Siraguso
KC Actors Theatre production of Gardner McKay’s Sea Marks is a sweet, bittersweet tale of love and expectations we have for one another. Words mean nothing. Words mean everything. Between these two…
King Lear – Theater Review by Frank C. Siraguso
Ted Swetz as King Lear owns the stage in KC Actors Theatre-UMKC Theatre collaboration This is the third time I’ve seen Shakespeare’s King Lear on the Spencer Theatre stage. The first, in…
A Lie of the Mind – Theater Review by Frank C. Siraguso
Powerful performances propel Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind at KC Actors Theatre Sam Shepard’s 1985 A Lie of the Mind explores relationships and the differences between men and women. He…
The Book of Mormon, review by Frank C. Siraguso
You’ve heard about it, you’ve read about it, now here’s your chance to see the smash musical, The Book of Mormon live in living color at The Music Hall. If nothing else,…