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performARTS: Kansas City Actors Theatre

As part of our performARTS series in conjunction with KC Studio Magazine, Randy Mason provides viewers with a look at the Kansas City Actors Theatre, an artist-led, artist-driven ensemble of theatre professionals who produce classic and modern-classic plays in a true rotating repertory using only local Kansas City theatre artists.

This next story begins about ten years ago when the artistic director of a theater we won’t name decided not to cast local actors in major roles. Not surprisingly, that didn’t go over too well with some very talented people here in town. And it soon led to the birth of the Kansas City Actors Theatre.

Since then, that other organization has changed its policy, but the Actors Theatre goes on, gearing up this summer for its eighth season.

As part of our performARTS series in conjunction with KC Studio Magazine, we take you inside the Kansas City Actors Theatre.

The Kansas City Actors Theater kicks off its 8th season with Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, which will run August 8th through 26th at Union Station’s H&R Block City Stage.

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WTF: KC Fringe Festival

Nick Haines finds out WTF--What's the Fringe---from the KC Fringe Festival Executive Director, Cheryl Kimmi.

The Local Show goes from the world of opera and the symphony to the fringes of the art scene in Kansas City. Yes, it’s that time again for the Fringe Festival. Now in its eighth year, the 11-day festival is jam packed with live theater, dance, performance and visual art, puppetry and storytelling, bellydancing, plays, film and fashion.

Twenty venues stretching from the Crossroads into Midtown are slated to host more than 400 performances . Nick Haines gets a preview from Fringe Festival executive director Cheryl Kimmi.

Logo for Fringe Fest--Kansas City's Premier Arts Festival July 19-29, 2012

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