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HEY HI-DE-HO MAN; A Tribute To Cab Calloway
Kansas City, MO
From longtime favorite KC Fringe Fest producer-Br. John, comes the latest installment in his 'Historical Music Showcase Theater' series. A talk show host sits down with Jazz legend-Cab Calloway (both portrayed by Br. John)...
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In Their Own Words
Kansas City, MO
"In Their Own Words" is presented by The Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City and is a collection of poems, prose, short stories and plays penned by the students of Ruskin High School and Hickman 9th Grade Center as a pa...
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Sun of the Revolution
Kansas City, MO
This play explores the generational gap between today’s style of hip hop in comparisons to the Golden Era. When a young man disturbs an older gentleman’s peace on a train ride, a battle of will and wit ensues. Can the wild...
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The Epic Epic
Kansas City, MO
Sometimes reality is too real. Leave your cares at the door, kick reality to the curb, and escape into an unknown world full of fascinating characters, epic landscapes, and good triumphing over evil! PLUS you get a say in ...
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The Wendigo
Kansas City, MO
In this adaptation of the Algernon Blackwood story, four hunters go into the Canadian wilderness and become hunted & haunted by a supernatural 'legend.' Mike Speller returns to the KC Fringe with his one-man interpretation...
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The Yellow Wallpaper: A Dance Into Madness
Kansas City, MO
Inspired by the gothic classic “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this is a story of a woman controlled by her aloof but dominating husband. A tale of past and perhaps current woes of frightening madness a...
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Will The Circle
Kansas City, MO
Block parties have always been a neighborhood’s “beers-and-brats” version of “Keep Calm, Carry On.” But in a country as divided as ever, with violence simmering at the edge of every day, what better way to combat the stres...
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Dust Bowl: American Stories
Kansas City, MO
Grant Maloy Smith presents his new album DUST BOWL - AMERICAN STORIES as a one-man show. Take a trip back to the American Great Plains during the 1930s, when enormous dust storms ("black rollers") rolled across the prairie...
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Huck Finn and the Quest for the Winding Wind
Kansas City, MO
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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Liminal State: A Travelers' Guide
Kansas City, MO
The Fishtank's new performance 'Liminal State: A Traveler's Guide' delivers an eclectic collection of new theatrical work; modern and experimental, celebrating the body as an expressive tool, vessel for research, and site ...
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Shelter Shorts
Kansas City, MO
A fun, fast-paced, and educational show that will make you wonder just what your pets are really thinking. An a family friendly adventure through the lives of shelter animals. Experience everything from intake into the she...
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The Immaculate Big Bang
Kansas City, MO
The Immaculate Big Bang (god - science - laughs) Sparked by the death of his father and birth of his daughter, Comedian Bill Santiago goes in search of answers and laughs at the border of science and religion, exploring t...
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The Mosquito Radio Hour III: Third Times the Harm...
Kansas City, MO
We are back and we are still NOT THE MOTH. Each night, a different swarm of talent will share tales of stings, bites, irritations, and bumps in life. Think your life sucks? Come spend the evening with us...and wear prot...
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Beginnings from an End
Kansas City, MO
Our choices build the foundations of our lives. Three women, three choices- each one building her life. Beginnings follows the progression of reproductive rights since Roe v Wade, and examines the impact of the right to ch...
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Clockstoppers: How to Build a Railroad Empire
Kansas City, MO
Based on true events, Clockstoppers is a two woman musical romp about the day that time stood still. Go back in time to November 18, 1883, the day clocks stopped to standardize the new time zones. Does every second count? ...
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Lucy and the Circumstances -- Chapter 1
Kansas City, MO
Lucy Duggan is a young woman at a crossroads. Should she stay with the band she leads or continue her studies in psychology? To complicate matters, Lucy has learned that she has multiple sclerosis and her parents’ marriage...
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Militant Showgirls
Kansas City, MO
We are storytellers, but we are also activists. We filter and magnify and distort the society we live in to entertain, but also to force it to look at itself, and to push it forward. Onstage and off. We will not quietly ac...
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Summerfest Is for the Birds
Kansas City, MO
This program is a celebration of all the arts-chamber music style! We present Michael Horwood’s Birds, which combines music and over 120 projected images to tell a story designed by Toronto writer Michael Schulman. You’ll ...
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The Taming of the Poo
Kansas City, MO
From the creator of Poops, I Did It Again, comes a new work of comedy that will, hopefully, not only hit home with a lot of people, but give them a reason to just laugh themselves silly for an hour of their lives. Everyone...
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Yiddish With Dick and Jane
Kansas City, MO
From the best-selling book by Ellis Weiner and Barbara Davilman, this is a classic story told through the beloved primer characters Dick and Jane and their little sister Sally. You'll plotz. You'll kvell. Oy vey, what a show!
Breakneck Julius Caesar
Kansas City, MO
Amid the latest swirl of controversy surrounding Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Tim Mooney, author/performer of Shakespeare's Histories, Lot o' Shakespeare, and Breakneck Hamlet brings Breakneck Julius Caesar to Kansas City!
Caution! This Play Will Kill You!
Kansas City, MO
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 appear...
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My Favorite Things (A musical review)
Kansas City, MO
“When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I'm feeling sad…I simply remember my favorite things…and then I don't feel so bad!” A show put together from my own favorite things! Me and my crew of artists will have harmon...
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Prove Me Wrong
Kansas City, MO
I recently had an "epissany" that changed my life. It was an awful revelation around my white privilege and personal racism, that left me stunned then pissed. I was convinced that what I'd realized couldn't be true so I w...
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Variations on a Theme by Tara Varney
Kansas City, MO
Schisms, disconnects, and words left unsaid. From the creator of past Fringe hits Sexing Hitler, Red Death, and Voyage to Voyager, comes a collection of intimate, touching, and humorous scenes that explore the difficulties...
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Boomer Momma Mommyisms...Wonderland Adventure
Kansas City, MO
Travel through the wonderland of being a boomer, laughing all the way. This humorous rendition of Boomer Momma "Mommyisms" explores finding a mate, training a mate, using technology, launching (and relaunching) those darn ...
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Geography for F*cking Idiots. Plays About Places I've Never Been
Kansas City, MO
See this world premiere production before it transfers Off-Broadway in the Fall! Come laugh and “aha” your way through a series of interwoven short plays about some of our favorite countries and the four things we think we...
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KCIC Classics
Kansas City, MO
The KC Improv Company is offering a veritable smorgasbord of improv comedy at this year's KC Fringe Festival! Using your suggestions, we create unique, inventive, and downright hilarious works of theater! This year, we are...
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There Aint No More: Death of a Folksinger
Kansas City, MO
“There Ain’t No More!” is an award-winning tour-de-folk operetta based on legends of American folk music.
Well, He’s Dead
Kansas City, MO
A paranoid internet sleuth and her best friend prepare a cabin for a weekend getaway. Before the arrival of the best friend’s boyfriend, the women discover a mysterious package hidden in the bedroom. Once they are joined b...
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Arc of Joan
Kansas City, MO
In the wake of 9/11, Jen Appell co-created the original rock musical Joan the Maid (now performed as Arc of Joan). Informed by the political and social climate, the production envisioned what Joan of Arc’s life would have ...
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Dirty Birdie Story Hour 2
Kansas City, MO
Dirty Birdie Story Hour is a storytelling celebration of deviance. It’s an evening of true, personal stories all themed around deviance (all kinds, not only sexual). Show creator and host, Susanna Lee, hand-picks professio...
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The Respectful Prostitute by Jean-Paul Sartre
Kansas City, MO
"I'm a good person."That's what we tell ourselves, right? And maybe, for some of us, it's the truth. But anything can be the "truth" if you reeeeaaally believe it's true - for you, anyway. So... is it true that you're a go...
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World Burlesque Federation: Stripdown
Kansas City, MO
Put on your spandex and step into the ring! Kansas City Cabaret is ready to get down and dirty for our 8th year at the KC Fringe Festival. Watch four buxom burlesquers battle it out for the “Glittery World Burlesque Federa...
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KCKCC #333: Poultry in Motion, or The Land of Oohs and Aahs
Kansas City, MO
An unstoppable force meets an immovable object as a drinking group with a running problem comes to KCMO to tell but show. This modern retelling of King Midas and the golden touch zooms from the Buffalo Room, shuttles to th...
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Louder Than A Sound 2
Kansas City, MO
Louder Than A Sound is a display of what it means to be a musician and to show that singers are more than just sound on a mic. This show was created to help demonstrate that music has a bigger purpose than just entertainme...
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Right Between the Ears
Kansas City, MO
Right Between the Ears is the award-winning sketch comedy series broadcast on public radio. It has been spoofing politics, celebrities, sports figures, lame TV shows and stupid commercials since 1985. The show's been broad...
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Striking Beauty
Kansas City, MO
An idealistic artist calls for an art strike in the Crossroads to battle unscrupulous and unethical authorities. The resulting Tweet storm surprises even him! His moral compass spins wildly as he and his family land in j...
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Friday, July 28 2017
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Fri, Jul 28 2017
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Friday, July 28 2017
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Fri, Jul 28 2017
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Friday, July 28 2017
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Downtown Replay
Kansas City, MO
Come play with us! Experience Kansas City in a way you've never heard or seen before! Downtown Replay is a collaborative and interactive piece exploring the sights and sounds of KC. Be a part of this full sensory experienc...
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Fountain City Sketch
Kansas City, MO
Fountain City Sketch is a subsidiary of The KC Improv Company. Over the past 3 years, we have been creating original, hilarious new sketch comedy at The Kick Comedy Theater. This year, we bring the best of the best to The ...
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From Alphabet Street to When Doves Cry: 99 Haikus About Prince
Kansas City, MO
Come see the artist MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL magazine calls "inexplicable, but totally hilarious." National Poetry Slam performer and pop-culture maven Michael Shaeffer flies in from Alaska to perform a funkadelic and deliriously...
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Gallery of Dreams
Kansas City, MO
Have you ever walked through an art gallery and wished you could disappear into the painting and dream in the world of fantasy? From the old world masters, to the best of contemporary art, Crescendo Conservatory brings the...
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Radio Free Puppets
Kansas City, MO
Radio Free Puppets is a variety radio hour... with puppets. Featuring a diverse cast of characters, Radio Free Puppets takes you back to a time when entertainment was only limited by your imagination and your radio's dial....
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Teen Film
KCMO, MO
Watch short films from local teen filmmakers presented by Reel Spirit and Blue Valley's CAPS program. Stay after the films for a Q&A with some of the filmmakers.
Another Year Closer to Death
Kansas City, MO
Darkness arrives in Kansas City as teenage goth, Emily Kzany, emerges from the shadows to share her pain and poetry. Hailing from Yukon, Oklahoma (birthplace of Garth Brooks), Kzany's "cutting" edge poems are inspired by c...
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Blackmail, Murder & Other Ways To Say I Love You
Kansas City, MO
Love hurts. Music tells us so, literature tells us so, and playwrights Glendora Davis, Mary Beth Gordon, and Lezlie Revelle will show you the little ways we hurt, torture, and sometimes kill to get what we desire.
Down the Urinal Hole and Around the Corner
Kansas City, MO
Hi. Hello it’s me. And you, yes, you are invited to a #QueerCultHorror loosely inspired by Edgar Allen Poe’s Masque of the Red Death. Excited yet? Prepare for sexuality, intimacy, and ecstasy, as you swallow down the fears...
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Play That Funky Music, White Boy!
Kansas City, MO
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 Tr...
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Check Mate
Kansas City, MO
Immersive cinematic play from the team who brought you Audience and Bird in the Hand. A brilliant young scientist was able to crack the fabric between alternate realities and ran away – devastated by the results. Based on ...
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On the Road to Verona
Kansas City, NM
Leave your cell phones on! Go to our “Road to Verona” Facebook page and join the characters on stage. Post your comments on how to write love letters, “like” characters’ relationship updates, react to Proteus unfriending V...
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A Dinner Party
Kansas City, MO
After a botched robbery, Kevin finds himself hiding at a dinner party. As Lucy & Kyle, the hosts, attempt to keep their uninvited guests' identity a secret, the growing lie pushes everyone to the brink. Of sanity, probably.
BLADDER INTERRUPTED. A Self-Story About Cancer
Kansas City, MO
If there’s a breast cancer sisterhood, what’s a girl to do when she finds herself instead in a bladder cancer golf club? Mechele Leon wrote and stars in this personal story about getting cancer and losing a bladder, about ...
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Ella, July 21 & 28 OR Improvisations, July 24 & 26
Kansas City, MO
TWO SHOWS TO CHOOSE FROM! Eboni Fondren portrays Ella Fitzgerald, 100 years after her birth, with local jazz band Mighty Mo Combo in a SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT, July 21 & 28 only. Hear Eboni's beautiful vocals accompanied by big...
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KCYA's Teen Fringe Troupe
KCMO, MO
KCYA's own Teen Fringe Troupe promises to be a show you won't forget!
My White Son
Kansas City, MO
Rashaad and Andy saw separate but meteoric rises to the top. Rashaad - a young, black Oscar winning actor and Andy - a critically acclaimed comic, also share a sudden descent into Hollywood shame. Personal missteps have le...
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The Adventures of Crazy Jane and Red Haired Annie: New Fairy Tales for the Playful, Witty and Wise
Kansas City, MO
What happens when you combine magical realism, the wonder and menace of fairy tales, a good dash of wild women, the wisdom of Sesame Street and modern street smarts? You get <i>The Adventures of Crazy Jane and Red Haired A...
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The Art of Magic
Kansas City, MO
The Society of American Magicians Assembly #38 is proud to present a look at magic today. With sleight of hand artists, illusionists, hypnotists, and mentalists popping up in the media more and more, we invite you to come ...
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Walls Suck
Kansas City, MO
Meet Andi, a warm-hearted artist in a long-term, polyamorous relationship with two men. This loving thruple lives together, faces the world together, and sometimes argues about whether Beyonce is a true feminist. When Andi...
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The Cat Meme-ologues
Kansas City, MO
You've got to be kitten me! Your favorite internet cats have come to life in a variety of monologues inspired by cat memes. They're looking for stage time and tuna. Featuring the work of local Kansas City playwrights Linds...
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The Devil on the Wall or, That Time I Got Kidnapped
Kansas City, MO
Jamie Campbell re-lives the time he was kidnapped as a child in this solo performance that is part comedy, part storytelling, and 100% true. Travel back to 1991 as Jamie relives what he calls the “greatest adventure of my ...
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I Can Rap 'The Raven', and Other Things I Probably Shouldn't Brag About
Kansas City, MO
Taylor Kay Phillips has many talents and virtually no skills. Born and raised in KC, she knew all the US presidents in order before she learned how to change a light bulb. And after 4 years at Harvard, her most impressive ...
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QUACK & Rules We Live By
Kansas City, MO
QUACK - When a paranoid young man is terrorized by the recurring presence of a rubber duck, he soon learns that his squeaky tormentor is merely a herald of something far more malevolent.Rules We Live By - After being set...
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Take Flight: An Adventure in Cirque
Kansas City, MO
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!Clutching a one-way ticket to his dreams, Bumbles' plane freezes in time... with his heart (Kiki) and mind (Fink) at odds, Bumbles must choose between clinging to the past or leaping into the unknown...
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Variations on a Scene by Tara Varney
Kansas City, MO
Step into the mind of an actor as a scene from the current Fringe show Variations on a Theme by Tara Varney is given a cold read and reworked live on stage. This is a new kind of improv, featuring a different scene every n...
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A Picture's Worth Five Dollars
Kansas City, MO
Disturbing the Peace. Assault. Police. Utility Belts. Liberty. Laser Pointers. A Homeless Ghost. A Tutu’d Fairy. This original satire promises to excite, humor, intrigue, entertain, and ask the questions. When an immigrant...
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JELLY ROSE live n concert: Relationships, Resolutions, Spirituality, & Potpourri
KCMO, MO
If you have seen Jelly Rose and her four-piece band live in concert before, you know she can flat out bring it! That will not change with this performance. What will change is that this year’s performances will each have a...
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Lookin' For a Fight
Kansas City, MO
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...
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Neighborhood Goons
Kansas City, MO
Written partially as a love letter to Chicago, Neighborhood Goons is loosely based on some of the characters there and the things they did - namely drink, swear, and beat each other up.
Write to Me
Kansas City, MO
From the creator of the acclaimed Boom! An International Lost and Found Family Marching Band, and Mask of the Broken Heart, Write to Me is a love letter to letter-writing. Inspired by a box of 200 received letters, Stephan...
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Ready or Not
Kansas City, MO
You've got it all. You're married, you've got a house, a steady job. Life is on track! Suddenly, it takes a turn. You're pregnant! And it's exciting. Scary, overwhelming, yes... but exciting! And then comes a twist. And an...
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IFCKC Presents: Film @the Fringe
Kansas City, MO
The Independent Filmmakers Coalition of Kansas City presents a collection of short films written, produced, performed and shot by some of the finest of Kansas City's film community. Join us as we explore the brightest mome...
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Marie Antoinette
Kansas City, MO
It’s ‘French Revolution’ meets ‘Keeping up with the Kardashians’. Marie Antoinette provides a peek into the life of the infamous Queen of France and cake enthusiast. She delights us with her three-foot wigs and extravagant...
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The Caduceus!
Kansas City, MO
Following a catastrophic event, best friends and polar opposites Comedy and Tragedy are cast out as spiraling whirlwind dancing on the scales of time and space. Searching always in hopes of finding what they really need. W...
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Rhythm and Boobs: Let's Duet
Kansas City, MO
'Rhythm and Boobs' is back and double the trouble. Why don't we do it the KC Fringe Festival? Audie Oh!, Romany Jewel, Phoebe Pharamone, Stella Blue and more feature with the Hardest Working Band in Show Business to bring ...
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The House of Bernarda Alba
Kansas City, MO
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 lov...
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Mama's Boy
Kansas City, MO
Blake Friis grew up a proud, self-proclaimed mama's boy. His mother was smart, funny, and the toughest person in town. After a devastating car accident, she made a recovery that exceeded everyone's expectations...except he...
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Snowed Inn
Kansas City, MO
A live reality show where the audience has control! See what happens when strangers are forced to live in an isolated cabin, have their lives filmed, and are made to compete in absurd challenges! When reality show fame and...
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Finding You, Losing Me
Kansas City, MO
Join us for a compilation of works from our hit show "Blush" as well as some new, never before seen pieces! We will also have several guest artists that will be a must see! If you have never seen Seamless, we are a modern...
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The Chronic Single's Handbook
Kansas City, MO
A chronically-single guy takes a trip around the world hoping to change his luck with love. An unflinching look at how men feel about sex, love, marriage, and massage parlors. Adult language and adult situations, including...
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Dances of India
Kansas City, MO
Nritya and Anjali dance presents Vrikshasan: Where is your back?. It explores the issue of environmental degradation, taking our cue from climate change. Using the tree pose from yoga as the main motif, the dancers explore...
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Belly Dance on the Fringe: Rhythm & Moves
Kansas City, MO
The sound of Middle Eastern music stands apart because of its unique instrumentation and rhythms. Raghsidad and Friends will demystify the sounds by presenting the facts of the beats using figures in motion and sharing exa...
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Cody Clark: A Different Way of Thinking
Kansas City, MO
Magician Cody Clark combines the arts of magic, theatre, comedy, and storytelling to give a first-person account of living with autism. From his birth to his graduation from the University of Louisville, Cody will take you...
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Suzette Woods/ A Tribute to Anita Baker, featuring Samara Smith
Kansas City, MO
This is a tribute show to one of Suzette's favorite jazz & R & B artists, Ms Anita Baker. Her music has inspired Suzette to use her voice as a tool. This is a 55 min show with special guest Samara Smith. She will also brin...
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Here Lies Joyland
Kansas City, MO
Here lies Joyland. This once iconic theme park now rots -abandoned- in Wichita, Kansas. It is here, four teens break inside the rusted gates in a quest to uncover Joyland's dark history. Yet, innocent adventure turns swift...
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