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Raves for Glengarry Glen Ross

kcactors — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 05:10:48 +0000

Reviews are In!

“Every now and then I see a show so good I can easily convince myself I’ve got the best job in the world. Glengarry is one of those shows.” - Robert Trussell, Kansas City Star
Read the whole review athttp://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/columnists/robert_trussell/story/1367863.html?storylink=pd

“The company that delivered the city’s best drama for the last few years returns for a scathing production.” - Russ Simmons, Sun Publications
Read the whole review at http://sunpublications.com/entertainment/

Cast of Glengarry Glen Ross on KKFI

kcactors — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:16:37 +0000

Listen to Glengarry cast members discuss the play with Michael Hogge on KKFI, 90.1 at Noon this Monday.

Cast & Director on KCUR

kcactors — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:14:18 +0000

Media Alert!

KCUR 89.3 FM
“Arts Roundup” with Steve Walker
Friday, July 31 at 5:30, 7:30,and 9:30 am

Listen to Steve interview Glengarry Glen Ross director John Rensenhouse and some of the actors as they talk about the show!

After the broadcast, the interview will be available to hear at your leisure at http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kcur/arts.artsmain

Donate Online to Actors Theatre

kcactors — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:58:31 +0000

We’ve just made donating to KCAT much easier, thanks to Network for Good, a nonprofit organization that helps other nonprofits establish an online donation presence. To donate, merely visit our website and look on the left-hand side of the page, where you’ll find a button like this: that will take you to our Network for Good page, where you can easily donate via credit card or PayPal.

Every donation helps, no matter how small. Go ahead, give it a try, won’t you?

The cast of Glengarry Glen Ross

kcactors — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:44:29 +0000

Here’s the cast of Glengarry
Glen Ross at Actors Theatre. L to R: Brian Paulette, Phil Fiorini, Scott Cordes, Victor Raider-Wexler, David Fritts, Stuart Rider, John Rensenhouse.

For more on this stellar cast, visit www.kcactors.org/GGGRcast/castindex.html.

Our 2009 Production

kcactors — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:07:07 +0000

Glengarry Glen Ross
Directed by John Rensenhouse

With every successive season we have employed the finest of Kansas City’s theatre artists and artisans, and have unfailingly delivered smart, unique and moving productions. Productions which focus squarely on the playwright, the actor, and powerful storytelling.

It is in that tradition that we offer our next production, a scalding comedy about power, manipulation and Florida real estate: David Mamet’s classic Glengarry Glen Ross.

David Mamet is the author of some of the best-known and most important plays in American theatre, such as American Buffalo, Oleanna and Speed-the-Plow. Throughout his work he has proven himself a master at scripting stories filled with deception, crime and plot-twists. And tying it all together is dialogue written with an acute ear for language and its use in scrabbling for power. As Ben Brantley wrote in the New York Times, “Mr. Mamet hears American scheming with an exactitude and delight still unsurpassed by any other dramatist.”

Glengarry Glen Ross, winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, is Mamet at the top of his game. The Times’ Frank Rich writes, “…Crackling tension…ferocious comedy and drama. A top American playwright in bristling form.”

And true to our form, the seven actors who will be playing this group of shabby, strutting salesmen will be culled from the very best Kansas City has to offer. We have no doubt that ATKC’s production of Glengarry Glen Ross will provide a funny, powerful, high-octane evening at the theatre.

Previews July 30-August 4, 2009
Opens August 5, 2009
Closes August 16, 2009