Kansas City Rep Announces 2019-20 Season
The first season under interim a.d. Jason Chanos features Williams, Shange, ‘Fun Home,’ and more.
The first season under interim a.d. Jason Chanos features Williams, Shange, ‘Fun Home,’ and more.
Replacing Chris Coleman, she’ll join managing director Cynthia Fuhrman as a co-leader starting Sept. 15.
Rosen, who joined the company in 2008, will step down at the end of the summer.
It will include new plays from Paula Vogel, Jocelyn Bioh, and Kate Hamill.
The lineup will feature plays by Nathan Louis Jackson and Kara Lee Corthron.
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Ayad Akhtar, Nick Payne, Larissa FastHorse, Lorraine Hansberry and more will be part of the lineup.
The Midwestern company is blazing new trails by producing contemporary American plays.
Slate includes revivals of Sondheim’s ‘Sunday in the Park With George’ and ‘The Fantasticks,’ as well as a new-works fest and world premieres by Michael Benjamin Washington and D. Tucker Smith.
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