You Get What You Need – Review by Isaac Robinson
Produced by Phil Kinen’s Big Show Productions, performed at Just Off Broadway Theater, directed by Philip Kinen, written and improvised by the cast and crew, “You Get What You Need” is about the recording process of one of the most famous Rolling Stones songs of all time, “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”. The…
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Shows by Venue Arts Asylum Address: 1000 E 9th St Kansas City, MO 64106 Shows: You Are (Not) Okay Scream in Blue The “SIN”-sational Mae West Gleesical: A Stage Musical Satire of the Hit Fox TV Show, Glee The Young Life and Troubled Times of Reuben Hall Hanging by the End of the Leash The…
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Shows by Venue Arts Asylum Address: 1000 E 9th St Kansas City, MO 64106 Shows: Somewhere AFTER PERSEPHONE, A Musical Overture the Musical Kansas City Magic Showcase Medea: An American Tragedy The Man in My Beard The Bolender Center Address: 500 W Pershing Rd Kansas City, MO 64108 Shows: In The Red Rise Kansas City…
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Lookin’ For A Fight
Relevance Productions Show Information: Jake lives in a small town where people talk and everyone knows each other’s business. It’s common knowledge that Jake has a reputation for solving problems with his fists. One day he is waiting outside the daycare for the father of a child who’s been bullying his daughter. Adamant that he…
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Play That Funky Music, White Boy!
Relevance Productions Show Information: Scott Cox believes he’s witnessed the second coming of… George Clinton. His friends told him the Funk-master isn’t dead, but now he’s a dangerous man on a divine mission. To spread the Gospel of Funk (AKA “The Capital T Truth”), Scott’s mission is clear: star in a one-man show as Clinton.…
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House of Bernarda Alba
Relevance Productions Show Information: In the wake of her husband’s death, tyrannical matriarch Bernarda Alba enforces eight years of mourning upon her five daughters: For eight years, they are not allowed to leave their home. But the daughters’ desires for love and longing for freedom have come to a boil, leading to an explosive generational…
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World Burlesque Federation: Stripdown
Kansas City Cabaret Show Information: Put on your spandex and step into the ring! Kansas City Cabaret is ready to get down and dirty for our 8th year at KC Fringe. Watch four buxom burlesquers battle it out for the “Glittery World Burlesque Federation Championship Shimmy Belt.” Join us for a night of raucous entertainment…
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Caution! This Play Will Kill You!
Warren Deckert Show Information: Nine people are invited to the opening night of a play which doesn’t exist! No one knows who sent the invitation! Someone or something is lurking in the dark beyond the flickering lights! A raging storm has suddenly appeared in the night sky outside!…
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Huck Finn and the Quest for the Winding Wind
Phil Kinen’s Big Show Show Information: 60 year-old, burned out Huck Finn no longer finds joy in writing and storytelling, and seeks new adventures. Enter Iktomi, a native American boy who entices Huck with the legend of the Winding Wind. They embark for Apache…
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By Hephzibah Dutt In Gilda: A Tribute to Gilda Radner, performer, Helena Cosentino presents a tremendously entertaining, ninety-minute, one-woman show. Presented in deep thrust staging at the Just Off Broadway Theatre, Cosentino’s show is a lively testament to her versatility as a performer—she sings, dances, narrates, does impressions—and all this after cleverly crafting a script…
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