At Play Theatre Roundup: 1.9.11

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KMUW / Jedd Beaudoin

Wichita Community Theatre prepares the fourth show of its 66th season: the comic farce The 39 Steps by Patrick Barlow, familiar from its 1935 film adaptation by Alfred Hitchcock. The show will run January 26 through February 12.

Crow Uptown Dinner Theatre presents Steel Magnolias now through February 12. The 1987 play by Robert Harling was adapted for the screen in 1989. Since its off-Broadway debut the play has been performed all over the world, gaining special popularity in markets such as Sweden and Japan.

In February and March Mosley Street Melodrama will present The Dukes of Haysville or The Hazzards of Going Down South… of Wichita written by Tom Frye. The production begins February 2.

The Wichita State University School of Performing Arts has a full season including performances of the Tennessee Williams classic The Glass Menagerie (coming in April) and a Commedia dell’arte show, The Sausage, beginning in February.

Wichita Center for the Arts will present Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice and Alan Ayckbourn’s Round and Round The Garden later this season.

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Music: Vertigo Suite performed by Matt Haimovitz and Christopher O’ Riley available on the CD Shuffle.Play.Listen