From the roof of the Unicorn Theatre, you can see the future. It's under construction on a hill in downtown Kansas City, Mo., in the form of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, a massive, looming $400 million–plus structure expected to open in fall 2011. Two theaters will be housed there—one with 1,800 seats, the other 1,600—that will dwarf the twin stages at the Unicorn, which has been producing plays since 1974.Still, for Cynthia Levin, the Unicorn's producing artistic director, the behemoth growing in the near distance, which she can see from atop her space, is a sign that despite rough economic times, things are building toward the good for the theater scene in Kansas City. "It's incredible what's happening here," she said.Theater and performing arts projects large and small have cropped up in several major cities in recent years, whether entirely new facilities or renovations of existing ones.
- 7/14/2010
- backstage.com
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