•Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre opens the season with a world premiere: Michael Ruth’s “Rules for Widows,” in which a woman learns about her husband’s secret life after his death. Jan Rogge heads a cast that includes Marilyn Lynch, Jennifer Colville, Coleman Crenshaw and Katie Ligon. Performances begin Sept. 8.
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The Tradition Continues…
THE BLOOMSDAY GAZETTE — It was 16 years ago on another June 16 that a group of puzzled participants first celebrated Bloomsday at the used book store of the same name in Brookside with a 24-hour reading of ULYSSES. In addition, that midnight, Sylvia Stoner, fresh from Skidmore College, directed the first staged reading in K.C. of Professor Opitz’s play.
The early readers were an enthusiastic crew of volunteers who struggled with the words and blushed mightily at the content. Despite widely varying degrees of talent, it was a huge success. Gradually over the years, the enthusiastic amateurs have given way to some of our region’s finest professional performers.
A special thanks this year goes to Kip Niven for assembling the wonderful cast, to Nancy Wormington and Renata Rea, executor director and assistant director of the Irish Center, and to the Kansas City Irish volunteers and barflies who never fail to show when needed.
— Tom & Nancy Shawver, Bloomsday Books
The Day’s Events
Admission, beer and refreshments are free, but donations to the Irish Center are appreciated.
More information about Bloomsday, Joyce and all manner of Irish bawdery below the break.
The next, FREE Martin Tanner Monday is this coming Monday, June 6, 7:30 p.m. at The Fishtank Performance Studio, 1715 Wyandotte, KC MO
Visiting Mr. Green by Jeff Baron.
This reading features one of Kansas City’s most respected actors and acting coaches, Richard Alan Nichols, along with one of KC’s hottest young actors, Coleman Crenshaw. The show is full of both humor and poignancy and will be sure to move you.
http://martintanner.com/Visiting-Mr–Green.php or see the Visting Mr. Green event page on Facebook.
Mr. Green, an elderly, retired dry cleaner, wanders into New York traffic and is almost hit by a car driven by Ross Gardiner, a 29-year-old corporate executive. The young man is given a community service of helping the recent widower once a week for six months. What starts as a comedy about two men who do not want to be in the same room together becomes a gripping and moving drama as they get to know each other, come to care about each other, and open old wounds they’ve been hiding and nursing for years. Translated into 22 languages, with over 200 productions in large and small venues, it has won numerous best play and best actor awards throughout the world.
– Herman Johansen
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Coleman Crenshaw 