Voting in absentia by Frank C. Siraguso July 28, 2020 The Missouri primary election is Tuesday, August 4, 2020. Today we, Molly Margaret and I, went to the Kansas City Board of…
Pasta Coronavera
Frank C. Siraguso April 8, 2020 In these sequestered days, we don’s always order food for pickup. We always liked cooking at home, although sometimes we have periods of going out…
Death and the Maiden – review by Frank C. Siraguso
January 19,2019 Death and the Maiden at Kansas City Actors Theatre is riveting – this is the play for our times. The setting is banal. A house by the sea, simple furnishings,…
1959
Frank C. Siraguso Photo by Bud Simpson It was a week past Christmas. Mom and I had walked the half block up the street to my grandparents, my mom’s parents, for New…
A Moon for the Misbegotten – review by Frank C. Siraguso
Eugene O’Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten, the sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning A Long Day’s Journey into Night, is a hard-bitten play about love, dissembling, and destruction, with a side of…
Blithe Spirit – review by Frank C. Siraguso
KC Actors Theatre season opener, Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit, laughs in the face of death. A “farce in three acts,” as Coward describes it, Blithe Spirit centers on the relationships of novelist…
Skylight – review by Frank C. Siraguso
Tom and Kyra confront their past and present lives in the KC Actors production of David Hare’s Skylight. May 28, 2018 If you caught any press releases of Skylight, the spring 2018…
The Barber of Seville – review by Frank C. Siraguso
The Lyric Opera’s production of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville is a light, preposterous love story that is the ancestor of 1930s screwball comedies. Based on Le Barbier de Séville, a French…
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
– review by Frank C. Siraguso
The Rep’s production of Simon Stephens’ adaption of Mark Haddon’s novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, is a brilliant gem of many facets (Cast photo: KC Rep/Cory Weaver)…
Sea Marks – review by Frank C. Siraguso
KC Actors Theatre production of Gardner McKay’s Sea Marks is a sweet, bittersweet tale of love and expectations we have for one another. Darren Kenney & Cinnamon Schultz. Photo: KCAT/Brian Paulette Words…