Two Tickets to any for the following:  

Clay

Sept. 6-28, 2008
A New Musical
Written and Performed by Matt Sax
Developed in Collaboration with and Directed by Eric Rosen
Copaken Stage

Kansas City audiences will have the amazing opportunity to experience this explosive new hip hop musical – one of new Artistic Director Eric Rosen’s biggest successes – just prior to its New York premiere. Created by a phenomenal young artist named Matt Sax in collaboration with Rosen, Clay is a coming-of-age story told with the great humor, intensity, and lyricism of contemporary hip hop music.

Tony Nominee for Best Play

Radio Golf

Oct. 17-Nov. 9, 2008
Written by August Wilson
Directed by Lou Bellamy
Spencer Theatre

Radio Golf tells the story of charismatic African-American political candidate and real estate tycoon Harmond Wilks, who is running for office while attempting to revitalize the historic Hill District using federal funds. When an old mansion, the home of the legendary Aunt Ester, is slated for demolition, a stranger claiming ownership appears, forcing Wilks to choose between his ambition and the inevitable pull of his own history.

The first Tennessee Williams Play on the Rep Stage in over a Decade!

The Glass Menagerie

Jan. 9-Feb. 15, 2009
Written by Tennessee Williams
Copaken Stage

Tennessee Williams’ enduring classic is an award-winning portrayal of a disintegrating family during the depression of the 1930s. Looking back through the eyes of Amanda Wingfield’s son Tom we share an intimate moment of their family life in a St. Louis tenement house in the delicate atmosphere of time remembered. Amanda, a former Southern belle, places well-meaning but unrealistic demands on her exceedingly shy and slightly crippled daughter Laura, driving her to seek refuge in a world of fantasy that revolves around her collection of glass animals.

From the Creator of the Smash Hit Metamorphoses

The Arabian Nights

Jan. 30-Feb. 22, 2009
Written by Mary Zimmerman
Directed by Mary Zimmerman
Spencer Theatre

A Co-Production with Berkeley Repertory Theatre

From the creator of the Broadway and Kansas City smash Metamorphoses comes this glorious and extraordinary retelling of one of the greatest epics of world literature. Zimmerman’s stunning theatrical event is a series of stories brilliantly woven by the beautiful princess Scheherezade —one story a night, for 1001 nights, to save her own life.

A Musical Created by the Rep’s New Artistic Director

Winesburg, Ohio

A New Musical
Mar. 13-Apr. 5, 2009
Based on the Novel by Sherwood Anderson
Book and Lyrics by Eric Rosen
With Music and Additional Lyrics by Andre Pluess and Ben Sussman
Conceived and Developed in Collaboration with Jessica Thebus
Directed by Eric Rosen and Jessica Thebus
Spencer Theatre

An award-winning new musical by KC Rep’s new Artistic Director Eric Rosen and three of Chicago’s most talented theatre artists. Based on Sherwood Anderson’s classic stories of life in a small Midwestern town at the turn of the 19th century, Winesburg is a passionate ode to expressing the secret passions that lie beneath the quiet surface of everyday life. 

A New Thriller!

The Borderland

Apr. 3-26, 2009
Written by Jim Grimsley
Copaken Stage

In this explosive thriller, a young couple who think that escaping the rat-race and having a child might save their crumbling marriage decide to pack up their urban life and move to the country. On a stormy night, their illusion of security is quickly upended when an impoverished young mother of five is chased onto their property by her abusive husband.

From the Broadway Director of The Color Purple

A Flea in Her Ear

May 15-Jun. 7, 2009
Written by Georges Feydeau
Adapted by David Ives
Directed by Gary Griffin
Spencer Theatre

Having recently directed The Color Purple on Broadway, Olivier Award-winner Gary Griffin brings us a newadaptation of Feydeau's masterful French farce that was a recent hit at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. The story begins when Madame Raymonde Chandebise suspects that her husband Victor’s lack of affection indicates he is having an affair behind her back.