Five-time Tony Award nominee Michael John LaChiusa is visiting Kansas City’s Spinning Tree Theatre to view the Friday, May 24 performance of his musical Hello Again and to conduct a talkback about the show.

Tickets for the 8:00pm performance, which include the post-show talkback, are available by calling (816) 842-9999 or at www.spinningtreetheatre.com. Seating is limited, and securing reservations in advance is highly recommended as this event is expected to be sold-out.

LaChiusa wrote the music, lyrics and libretto for the 1993 Obie Award winning musical, which …

Sexy Sizzle at Spinning Tree

By Karen Hauge  Wed, May 15, 2013

Spinning Tree Theatre closes its season with the steamy and thought-provoking “Hello Again,” an exploration of human attachment and sexuality performed with great passion and insight by a stellar local cast.

Sex is a beautiful, uncomfortable, serious, laughable, awkward, messy, natural, ecstatic, offensive, organic, curious, bizarre, and glorious part of life—but it’s not something that often gets explored in as great or graphic detail on the musical stage as in Hello Again. Michael John LaChiusa’s ten-scene, …

Spinning Tree Theatre proudly announces our 2013-14 Season

Stick Fly
by Lydia Diamond

Kansas City premiere

November 1-17, 2013 at Just Off Broadway Theatre

The affluent, African-American LeVay family is gathering at their Martha’s Vineyard home for the weekend, and brothers Kent and Flip have each brought their respective girlfriends to meet the parents for the first time. As the two newcomers butt heads over issues of race and privilege, longstanding family tensions bubble under the surface and reach a boiling point when secrets are revealed.

“A MUST SEE. Fascinating. Arrestingly …

For tickets to “An Afternoon of Song” – Spinning Tree Theatre’s 1st benefit

Sunday, February 24, 2013 2:00-4:00pm at Californos Westport

call (816) 569-5277

or visit http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/321752

The Kansas City Star includes both our 2012 offerings, The Fantasticks and Master Class, in their Best of 2012 Theatre!

The Fantasticks, called “the most memorable night of theatre of the spring season” by theatre writer Robert Trussell (October 22, 2012, The Kansas City Star), is called “one of the most memorable productions of the year.”

HELLO AGAIN

words and music by Michael John LaChiusa

a Kansas City Premiere

Suggested by the 1897 play La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler, Spinning Tree Theatre’s production of Hello Again (“the best original musical of the season,” The New York Times) celebrates its 20th anniversary. This adult musical fantasy is about the search for one’s perfect lover. Four-time Tony Award nominee Michael John LaChiusa sets – physically and musically – each of ten scenes in a different decade of the 20th century. Seductive, entrancing, and darkly comical, Hello …

with Michael Grayman – Artistic Director, Spinning Tree Theatre

Michael teaches acting, improvisation and musical theatre song interpretation for all ages. He specializes in preparing the young actor for Kansas City professional auditions as well as in preparing the college-bound actor for university and conservatory auditions.

For Private Coaching rates and availability:  (816) 569-5277 or mgrayman@spinningtreetheatre.com

Kansas City directing credits:  Narnia (Starlight Theatre at The Kauffman Center); Master Class, The Fantasticks, The Year of Magical Thinking, Make Me a Song: The Music of William Finn (Spinning Tree …