On Stage

On Stage

Hosted by Sanda Moore Coleman

KMUW commentator Sanda Moore Coleman looks behind the curtain to give listeners (and play goers) a bit of history and perspective.

Latest Episodes

On Stage: 'Anything Goes'

From Wichita State University comes the Cole Porter musical Anything Goes, directed by guest artist Bradley Allan Zarr. The idea for a musical set on…
On Stage This Fall

The Wichita Grand Opera is open for single tickets beginning Oct. 1. Their 2019-20 season includes All is Calm, The Christmas Truce of 1914; a…
On Stage: The History Of 'Cats'

Andrew Lloyd Webber composed the score for Cats in 1977, setting to music the poems from T.S. Eliot's “Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats,” published in…
On Stage: 'Love Me Or Leave Me'

WSU hits the ground running with Second Stage Theatre's production of Love Me or Leave Me, the 2019 winner of the Wichita State University Playwriting…
On Stage: At The Kechi Playhouse And At Roxy's

The Kechi Playhouse is putting Living on Love onstage Fridays through Sundays from September 6 to the 29th. This two-act farce from Joe DiPietro is…
On Stage: In The Heights

Music Theatre Wichita is closing out its season with the much-anticipated production of In the Heights, the award-winning musical with lyrics and score by…
On Stage: Neil Diamond Musical

Over time, the jukebox musical has gathered strength in its ability to entertain through nostalgia and solid scores of pop hits. Recent productions have…
On Stage This Month; And Celebrating 5 Years

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage, who won for Ruined in 2007 and Sweat in 2017, is the 2020 honoree for the Distinguished…
On Stage: 'A Chorus Line'

In July of 1975, a musical unlike any Broadway had seen before made its debut at the Shubert Theatre: A Chorus Line, directed by Michael Bennett, who also…
On Stage: Local Theater

Just in time for Riverfest is Mosley Street Melodrama's production of Gone with the Windwagon, an original script by local writer Carol Hughes that…