Theatre

Free theater camp gives teens something new to do
By Erin Castaneda
June 28, 2008
On a warm summer Friday night,nine Lawrence youths performed Shakespeare in South Park. If the group hadn’t spent the last few weeks practicing “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and being engaged by volunteers who created the Lawrence Youth Ensemble, a new free theater camp for youth, many of them said they were likely to instead be walking downtown, sleeping or on Facebook, a social networking Web site.
Entertainment, history collide
By Erin Castaneda
June 21, 2008
History wasn’t all the Chautauqua program brought to South Park Friday night. Science fiction, comic and radio entertainment took center stage under a big tent thanks to the Lawrence Community Theater Vintage Players.
History event draws tourists
By Alexander Parker
June 20, 2008
As Chautauqua gets into full swing, organizers were happy to note that the event has turned Lawrence into a tourist destination. At the Lawrence Visitor Information Center Thursday, visitors from Johnson County, Topeka, and as far as Chicago and Lincoln, Neb., were in attendance. It’s helping the Lawrence Convention and Visitors Bureau attract people from out of town, while educating people of all ages about the hard times of the 1930s.
Getting Kinky: Songwriter, novelist and political candidate Friedman not one to blow smoke
By Jon Niccum
June 20, 2008
Kinky Friedman is probably more comfortable holding a cigar in his hand than he is a guitar or microphone. “I smoke eight to 10 a day, and I hope to live forever,” Friedman says. Even so, the iconic Texan can’t quite recall the first time he ever puffed on a cigar. “I forgot the first half of my life,” he admits. “But I would bet it was a King Edward or a rum Crooks in high school.”
Chautauqua: History under the tent
By Lindsey Slater
June 19, 2008
In 1928, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to travel solo across the Atlantic Ocean and on Wednesday, exactly 80 years later, she told her story to children in Lawrence. Well, someone who plays her did. A group of children participating in the Youth Chautauqua Camp saw firsthand how the art of playing a historical figure is accomplished, and they heard about the 1930s from people who lived through the decade in Lawrence.
6News video: Chautauqua performers of all ages ready to hit the stage
By Lindsey Slater
June 18, 2008
The decade of the 'Dust Bowl' and 'The Great Depression' comes alive in South Park as Chautauqua performers hit the stage. But the adults aren't the only history buffs around. 6News reporter Lindsey Slater has more on some local kids who also stepped back in time today.
Student play focuses on monkey trial
June 18, 2008
The topic of human evolution will take the stage starting Thursday as Summer Youth Theatre performs “Inherit the Wind,” a play based on the 1925 Scopes monkey trial.
History channeled
Chautauqua re-enactors find similarities between ’30s hardships, current events
By Terry Rombeck
June 15, 2008
Frankly, it’s hard to tell when Doug Watson is Doug Watson, and when he is Will Rogers. Watson’s authentic Oklahoma accent, his head topped with Rogers’ trademark brimmed hat, makes a dead ringer for the famous Sooner humorist and social commentator. It’s been that way for more than 15 years. But this isn’t just theater. Watson is a history professor at Oklahoma Baptist University, and he knows Rogers’ life and quotes inside and out.
Theater review: Go get a seat for ‘Annie Get Your Gun’
By Jerry Masinton
June 8, 2008
If you want to have a pleasant evening, go see the Lawrence Community Theatre’s fine production of “Annie Get Your Gun,” Irving Berlin’s immortal musical. You’ll enjoy many of the best tunes in the Great American Songbook, such as “Anything You Can Do,” “I Got the Sun in the Morning and the Moon at Night,” “The Girl That I Marry,” and the biggest show-biz song of them all, “There’s No Business Like Show Business.”
EMU Theatre provides Shakespeare parody
June 6, 2008
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two lesser-known characters from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” become the main characters in “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.”
Theater program sets stage for new experience
By Erin Castaneda
May 26, 2008
Rachael Perry knows there are plenty of children interested in Lawrence theater. She’s worked on stage and behind the scenes with them. But she believes some children, especially at-risk youths, are missing opportunities to get involved. She’s hoping to bridge the gap by providing a new theater program this summer.
Review: ‘Movin’ Out’ combines brilliance, confusion
By John R. Phythyon Jr. - Special to the Journal-World
May 3, 2008
Billy Joel is one of the all-time great storytellers in American music, so it’s only natural his work would provide the backdrop for a dance extravaganza that took Broadway by storm in 2002. Twyla Tharp’s interpretation of more than 25 of Joel’s songs, “Movin’ Out,” won a Tony Award in 2003, and a tour of it hit the Lied Center Thursday night.
‘John Brown’ opera opening in KC
By Terry Rombeck
May 1, 2008
If martyrdom, love and violence are hallmarks of opera, then a new production opening this weekend in Kansas City will go over well — even if it's set in Kansas.
Review: Acting matches memorable script in ‘Shape of Things’
By John R. Phythyon Jr. - Special to the Journal-World
April 28, 2008
“What is art?” is one of those questions that’s difficult to answer. Each person answers it a little differently, but is something art solely because the artist says it is?
6News video: Annual variety show to take the stage tonight
April 23, 2008
The curtain goes up tomorrow night for Lawrence High School's annual Showtime Music Revue.

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