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Kansas City Repertory Theatre is a professional resident theater company serving the Kansas City metropolitan area, and is the professional theater in residence at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). The theatre has had five artistic directors: founder Dr. Patricia McIlrath guided the theater from 1964 until she retired in 1985 ...
UMKC Theatre is a graduate and undergraduate academic department of the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) that provides both educational and professional training in multiple areas of theatrical production, including acting, scenic design, lighting design, costume design, sound design, dramaturgy and historical research, playwriting, and stage management, [1] and maintains a strong ...
The theatre is also known to be a place for young local actors to obtain experience in a professional setting. [3] The artist-led theatre company often collaborates with theatre students from the UMKC Theatre. [4] [5] This Mission was exemplified when they were the first theatre company to run Lanford Wilson’s Tally Trilogy in repertory. [6]
Theodore "Ted" Swetz (born March 21, 1953) is an American actor, theatre director, and educator. [1] He currently serves as the Head of Acting at UMKC Theatre , an academic department of the University of Missouri-Kansas City .
In 1981, Cynthia Levin became Producing Artistic Director of the theatre. [9] Levin announced at the start of the theatre's 40th-anniversary 2013–2014 season that the Unicorn will be launching a Longevity Campaign to raise the funds necessary to make the theatre the only of its kind in Kansas City to purchase and own its performance space. [10]
Levin has served as a director, actor, or designer for over 260 Unicorn productions, [10] and has directed plays for UMKC Theatre and the Coterie Theatre in Kansas City. She has also directed multiple world-premiere readings at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. [ 11 ] Levin is a founding board member of the National New Play Network.
The Kansas City Music Hall is a large proscenium theatre with a striking Streamline Modern interior that seats an audience of 2,400 patrons. The hall presents touring Broadway shows, as well as visiting symphony orchestras, opera and ballet companies, and other events. It was the main hall of the Kansas City Philharmonic for several decades.
John Ezell (born 1933) is an American scenic designer and theatre educator. [1] He currently serves as the Hall Family Foundation Professor of Design at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he leads the UMKC Theatre Scenic Design program. [2] [3]