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Jessica Showers, a long-time believer in the collaborative power of the performing arts, is a Midwest native and Kansas City-based arts journalist. She is on the editorial board for The Sondheim Review, a quarterly magazine dedicated to the work of renowned composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim. Jessica received a master's degree in arts journalism with a focus in theatre from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and a bachelor's degree in magazine journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia. As part of her graduate coursework, Jessica partnered with Charleston, S.C.'s daily paper The Post and Courier to cover theatre at Spoleto Festival USA. She also interned in New York City for American Theatre magazine and for Syracuse Stage, Syracuse, N.Y.'s local LORT theatre organization. Jessica looks forward to delving into Kansas City's wealth of theatricality and sharing it with KCM's readers.
Wed, Nov 02, 2011
David Cale’s one-man show "The History of Kisses," playing through November 27 at Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s Copaken Stage, is a languorous but rewarding series of fleeting seaside romances.
Tue, Nov 08, 2011
David Cale’s one-man show "The History of Kisses," playing through November 27 at Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s Copaken Stage, is a languorous but rewarding series of fleeting seaside romances.
Wed, Nov 16, 2011
The designers and puppeteers of New York’s Phantom Limb Company create a visually stunning, Antarctic landscape on the stage of the JCCC’s Yardley Hall, but the plot of “69° S.: The Shackleton Project” moves at a glacial pace.
Tue, Mar 13, 2012
Westport Center for the Arts’ Live Readers’ Theatre production of "Darby O’Gill and the Little People" at Kansas City Public Library on the Plaza introduces wee ones to the cunning fairy creatures of Irish myth through vivid narration, authentic Scots-Irish music, and traditional dance.
Tue, Dec 06, 2011
With excellent acting and skilled direction, the White Theatre presents "Beau Jest," playwright James Sherman's comic toast to life’s complications.
Wed, Dec 07, 2011
Martin City Melodrama & Vaudeville Company serves up a musical whodunit, “Mother Goose’s Christmas Crimes!,” and tops it with off with some “Holiday Hi-Jinx!” for a double portion of fast-paced family fun.
Wed, Dec 21, 2011
Washington-based playwright Ken Ludwig, perhaps best known for his comedy "Lend Me A Tenor" (originally produced on by Andrew Lloyd Webber on Broadway) discusses his newest venture into farce on the golf green, "The Fox on the Fairway." The Theatre Gym is producing the play's Midwest premiere at Just Off Broadway Theatre through Dec. 31.
Wed, Dec 21, 2011
Intricate schemes and messy love lives abound in the Theatre Gym’s regional premiere of Ken Ludwig’s "The Fox on the Fairway," a farce about life on the green.
Wed, Jan 04, 2012
From fairy tales to complex social issues such as rumors, bullying, and the environment, Kansas City theatre companies offer a variety of productions for the community’s younger crowd and families.
Wed, Jan 11, 2012
EARTh’s (Equity Actors’ Readers’ Theatre) concert reading of Noël Coward’s "Hay Fever" shows you don’t always need a fully produced play to capture an audience—just gifted actors. Some of Kansas City’s best talent, directed by Doug Weaver, came together Monday evening at St. Teresa’s Academy to portray a convincingly self-involved family and its confused and jostled weekend guests.
Wed, Feb 01, 2012
Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s new staging of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” is a boisterous blend of veteran acting talent and ingenious stagecraft.
Wed, Feb 08, 2012
Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s new staging of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” is a boisterous blend of veteran acting talent and ingenious stagecraft.
Wed, Feb 08, 2012
At the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Starlight Children's Theatre offers a streamlined and enjoyable, if not unpredictable stage version of the animated Disney classic, "Aladdin."
Tue, Mar 06, 2012
At MidAmerica Nazarene University, a talented young cast pays proper tribute to George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's boisterous comedic classic, "You Can't Take It With You."
Tue, Apr 10, 2012
UMKC’s new costume shop expands the Theatre Department's Master of Fine Art program’s creative scope and facilitate its status as a top graduate theatre training program.
Tue, Apr 17, 2012
With an expansive cast and earnest effort, Jewell Theatre Company brings Francis Warner’s challenging play “Living Creation” to life. Based on Lorenzo de’ Medici, he finds himself in the middle of rising political tensions, a battle between Platonic Christianity and new fundamentalist theology, and a resurgence of the plague.
Tue, May 01, 2012
With modern twists, nuanced performances, and engaging stagecraft, UMKC Theatre revives Shakespeare's “The Winter’s Tale” in the most unlikely of places: Waco, Texas and New Orleans, Louisiana.
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