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Kansas City, MO 64141
Just off Broadway Theatre
3051 Central in Penn Valley Park
P.O. Box 411653
Kansas City, MO 64141
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KC Melting Pot Theatre is proud to return for our second year of this playwright festival hosted by our Director of New Play Development, Lewis J. Morrow. We received submissions from all over the country and are delighted to bring you these finalists.
Baybra’s Tulips is a compelling family drama that pivots around Baybra, an African American man returning home after a 10-year stint in prison to live with his sister, Tellulah, and her born-again Christian husband Charles. Estranged from his daughter who was an infant when he was sentenced, Baybra struggles to reconnect with the world that seemingly left him behind. Faced with the reality of his present and the secrets of his sister’s past, Baybra reaches a crossroads where vengeance and the desire to build a new life crash head-on into the fate of the family.
The timeless enchantment of a magical fairy tale is reborn with the Rodgers & Hammerstein hallmarks of originality, charm and elegance. Originally presented on television in 1957 starring Julie Andrews, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella was the most widely viewed program in the history of the medium. Its recreation in 1965 starring Lesley Ann Warren was no less successful in transporting a new generation to the miraculous kingdom of dreams-come-true, and so was a second remake in 1997, which starred Brandy as Cinderella and Whitney Houston as her Fairy Godmother.
struggles to reconnect with the world that seemingly left him behind. Faced with the reality of his present and the secrets of his sister’s past, Baybra reaches a crossroads where vengeance and the desire to build a new life crash head-on into the fate of the family.
October 24 - November 6, 2021
InPlay Theatre Company in collaboration with WCA Theatre present "Dark Was Their Journey" an Original Play by Jacqee Gafford.
Local professional actors as Coretta Scott King, Myrlie Evers and Betty Shabazz, the widows of assassinated freedom-movement leaders Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Medgar Evers, and Malcom X. Years after their husbands were killed, the three women meet for a weekend and share their grief, their courage, laughter, fears and hopes.
The play charts the evolving roles of the three women from spouses of iconic figures to notable figures after their husbands’ assassinations. The play also notes the special relationship the three widows forged after their husbands’ deaths.
August Wilson’s classic Two Trains Running, the 7th play in his ten-part series takes place in the 1960s against the backdrop of a rumbling Civil Rights Movement, the recent assassination of Malcolm X, and gentrification encroaching on Black communities. As the community awaits the funeral of “Prophet Samuel,” a local reverend, Memphis Lee fights to keep his restaurant alive with the threat of “urban renewal.” As the Black community reels from the impact of Civil Rights and community leaders’ deaths and urban renewal’s grip on the Pittsburgh community, the next generation of community freedom fighters, Sterling and Risa, work to help Memphis save his business from the government that continues to double down on racist practices against African Americans.