Arts & Culture • Podcast
Kansas City Actors Radio Theatre presents new performances of classic radio plays of intrigue, mystery, suspense, and comedy from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s in rotation with a 10-part original historical drama written by local playwright, actor, and director Forrest Attaway. Featuring local actors and musicians and hosted by actors John Rensenhouse, Cinnamon Schultz, and Walter Coppage.
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The Team
As a local actor and director, Cinnamon has had the pleasure of performing at several theatres in Kansas City; Heart of America Shakespeare Festival, The Unicorn Theatre, The Coterie Theatre, Theatre for Young America, the KC Rep., Kansas City Actors Theater and The New Theatre Restaurant. Cinnamon has also performed in radio, television and film as well, having appeared as Victoria in the film Winter’s Bone, which was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and received four Oscar nominations in 2011 including Best Picture. She is also the head Acting professor for Kansas City Kansas Community College.
John Rensenhouse is an actor/director based here in Kansas City and is the Artistic Chair of Kansas City Actors Theatre. He performed as Scar in the Broadway National Tour of The Lion King for four years and has worked at many of the major regional theatres around the country including the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage in D.C., Hartford Stage, the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse, the Milwaukee Rep and right here at home at the Kansas City Rep.
Walter Coppage is an actor/director based in Kansas City and Chicago. He has appeared at Steppenwolf Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Milwaukee Rep, Studio Theatre (DC), KC Rep, St. Louis Black Rep, The Unicorn, The Coterie, and many others. He is a founding member of KC Actors Theatre, an advisory board member for KC International FilmFest, and actor ambassador for the National New Play Network. His recent TV credits include NBC’s “Chicago Med” and Comedy Central’s “Detroiters”. Recent film credits include David Dastmalchian’s “All Creatures Here Below”, and Kevin Willmott’s “Jayhawkers” and his forthcoming, “The Profit”.
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A new venture in weekly audio programming from local theatre company Kansas City Actors Theatre, Kansas City Actors Radio Theatre presents classic radio theatre performed anew by professional local artists. Episodes will include “Kansas City: 1924,” 10-part original historical drama written by local playwright, actor, and director Forrest Attaway, alongside classic radio plays including Agatha Christie’s “The Case of the Careless Victim,” “A Murderous Revision” from the “Suspense” series, and episodes of the comedy The Bickersons, by Philip Rapp.
Episodes of Kansas City Actors Radio Theatre will feature a range of top local theatre artists, including KCAT core artistic company members Hillary Clemens, Walter Coppage, Nedra Dixon, Brian Paulette, Shawna Peña-Downing, Victor Raider-Wexler, John Rensenhouse, Jan Rogge, Cinnamon Schultz, and Matt Schwader.
Kansas City Actors Theatre is grateful to its individual donors and the season sponsors whose support is assisting with this pivot to socially-distanced, safe theatre for this current season. Among those sponsors are American Theatre Wing, the Breidenthal-Snyder Foundation, the Sanford L. and Barbara L. Cohn Foundation, the Ellis Foundation, the Miller-Nichols Foundation, the Griswold Foundation, the Muriel McBrien Kauffman Foundation for the Arts, the Missouri Arts Council, the Richard Stern Foundation, the Schubert Foundation, and Theater League.
About KCAT: Founded in 2004 as a 501(c) (3) organization, Kansas City Actors Theatre’s mission is to showcase the finest talents of Kansas City’s professional theatre community by bringing our audiences exceptional, artist-driven productions of classic and modern classic plays. To accomplish this mission: We are led by a collective of seasoned theatre professionals. We select thought-provoking plays that explore, celebrate, and share what it is to be human with sensitivity, intelligence, and humor. We employ Kansas City artists and artisans and pay them at professional rates. We actively nurture our local artistic community, which in turn makes Kansas City a more vibrant, vital place to live and work.
Recent Episodes
September 24, 2021 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Irish Joe and the Dutchman, by Bill Rogers
"Irish Joe and The Dutchman" features P.I. and former boxer Irish Joe Nolan, who, while investigating the murder of his uncle, discovers ties to Kansas City’s most lethal mobster.
ListenSeptember 17, 2021 Arts & Culture, Podcast
There’s Always Room at the Top (from Suspense) (Rebroadcast)
When a job interview doesn’t go as expected for a young go-getter, she’s given the opportunity to jump on an unforeseen second chance. But what’s really going on behind closed doors?
ListenSeptember 10, 2021 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Oh My God, Did You Just Say That?! – Married Bliss (feat. Scott Cordes and Jen Mays)
Host John Rensenhouse leads this lively and entertaining game-and-talk show, with real-life married couple, Scott Cordes and Jen Mays. The couple talk about how they met, working together in the theatre, and are quizzed on their knowledge of celebrity couples and marriage bliss.
ListenSeptember 3, 2021 Arts & Culture, Podcast
The Bickersons Need a Vacation
John and Blanche Bickerson return to do what they do best: bicker. John goes to the doctor and Blanche visits the laundromat before taking a vacation to Yellowstone.
ListenAugust 27, 2021 Arts & Culture, Podcast
The House in Cypress Canyon (from Suspense) (Rebroadcast)
This is a rebroadcast of Suspense radio series "The House in Cypress Canyon" which originally aired 1/15/21.
ListenAugust 20, 2021 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Oh My God, Did You Just Say That?! – Founding Fathers (feat. Damron Russel Armstrong and Ron Megee)
Host John Rensenhouse leads this lively and entertaining discussion with Damron Russel Armstrong (The Black Repertory Theatre) and Ron McGee (The Late Nite Theatre) who share fun stories about founding theatre companies of their own.
ListenAugust 13, 2021 Arts & Culture, Podcast
The Terror of the Seas, by R. Bruce Connelly
Little did Miss Seidenstricker know when she took her Second Grade to see the Tall Ships at Mystic Seaport that she would be abducted by Pirates. And little did the Pirates know that they might have captured much more than they bargained for.
ListenAugust 6, 2021 Arts & Culture, Podcast
The Medicine Man (KCART Amplify: BIPOC Edition)
In Vietnam in 1946, the 4th generation medicine man of the Le family receives a visit from the spirit of his father, the previous medicine man, who warns of the danger and the endless war to come. The spirit insists that the medicine man find a successor soon, but with only a daughter left in the family, who could he possibly teach to be the next “medicine man?”
ListenJuly 30, 2021 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Mama Knows the Game (KCART Amplify: BIPOC Edition)
In “Mama Knows the Game,” it’s a normal Friday afternoon when middle-schooler Taveon abruptly runs into the wall of racism prevalent in the online gaming community. With the guidance and motivation of his parents, he learns important lessons about how a Black kid must navigate the treacherous world of white supremacy.
ListenJuly 23, 2021 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Oh My God, Did You Just Say That?! (feat. Sidonie Garrett and Walter Coppage)
This week KCAT presents a new episode of the talk-and-game show, “Oh My God, Did You Just Say That?!” with host John Rensenhouse and special guests Sidonie Garrett and Walter Coppage. It’s Christmas in July, so listen as Sidonie and Walter talk about their experiences performing “A Christmas Carol” -- and other Christmas-related fun to help you cool off!
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