FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Tammy Cunningham
June 22, 2017
FIRE IN DREAMLAND, anOriginKC: New Works Production at KCRep, Recently Added to 2017-2018Season atNew York’s Famed Public Theater!
Kansas City, MO– Kansas City Repertory Theatre announced today thatFIRE IN DREAMLANDhasbeen added to the 2017-2018 season at The Public Theater in New York City. KCRep also congratulates their Director of New Works, Marissa Wolf who will direct the play for The Public Theater.
FIRE IN DREAMLANDmarks the third OriginKC: New Works production that has gone on to be produced at The Public Theater in New York. Commissioned by Berkeley Rep and The Public Theater,FIRE IN DREAMLAND was part of the inaugural season for the OriginKC: New Works Festival at KCRepin 2015.Additionally, THE GREAT IMMENSITY, a thrilling and timely production that looks at the artists, scientists, and activists who are working creatively to tackle the big issues of climate change and other environmental crises, and VENICE, an ambitious new musical written by KCRep Artistic Director Eric Rosen, have found their way to The Public Theater stage.
Having directed the world premiere at KCRep, Marissa Wolf will direct the production of FIRE IN DREAMLAND at The Public. KCRep’s’ curator and producer for its annual New Works Festival, Wolf says, “In collaboration with Artistic Director Eric Rosen, I’m thrilled to champion vital, urgent and nationally recognized plays and musicalsunder the umbrella ofOriginKC, forwarding Kansas City as a major national center for the development and production of new work. FIRE IN DREAMLAND was among the very first new plays we produced here under the auspices of the New Works Festival, and Kansas City has become part of the play’s DNA.”
DREAMLANDis written by Rinne Groff (The Ruby Sunrise, Saved) is a moving, lyrical piece, set on Coney Island, in the aftermath of 2012’s Superstorm Sandy. It explores the astonishing things we do when faced with devastation. To learn more about FIRE IN DREAMLAND:
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The 2017-2018 KCRep Season Includes:
BETWEEN THE LINES: World Premiere Musical
Sep 8-Oct 1, 2017
Spencer Theatre
Music and Lyrics by Elyssa Samsel and Kate Anderson
Book by Timothy Allen McDonald
Based on the book by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer
Directed by Jeff Calhoun
Produced in Association with Daryl Roth Productions
FENCES
Oct 13-Nov 12, 2017
Copaken Stage
By August Wilson
Directed by Ron OJ Parson
Special Event: A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Nov 17-Dec 24, 2017
Spencer Theatre
By Charles Dickens
Adapted for the stage and directed by Eric Rosen
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG INTHE NIGHT-TIME
Jan 26-Feb18, 2018
Spencer Theatre
BySimon Stephens
Adapted from the novel by Mark Haddon
Directed by Marissa Wolf
SEX WITH STRANGERS
March 2-March 25, 2018
Copaken Stage
By Laura Eason
Directed by Chip Miller
SWEENEY TODD: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
March 23-April 15, 2018
Spencer Theatre
ByStephen SondheimandHugh Wheeler
Directed by Eric Rosen
ORIGINKC: New Works Festival
April 27-May 27, 2018
Copaken Stage
Umbrella dates for the New Works Festival are April 27-May 27, 2018. More information on the schedule will follow at a later date and will include new play readings, discussion panels and more in addition to the two feature productions:BROTHER TOAD by Nathan Louis Jackson and WELCOME TO FEAR CITYby Kara Lee Corthron.