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
July 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!
ListenJuly 16, 2021 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Ca$h 4 Carnage, Episode 5 – The Monster You Know
A reckoning arrives and the bodies in the donated cadaver program are warmer than usual in the shocking conclusion of “Ca$h 4 Carnage.”
ListenJuly 9, 2021 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Ca$h 4 Carnage, Ep. 4 – Arms Race
The pressure rises as witnesses step forward and The Law draws closer. Desperate people risk rash decisions as they race to escape the growing stack of the collapsing web of body-related crime threatening to bury them.
ListenJuly 2, 2021 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Ca$h 4 Carnage, Ep. 3 – Friends and Ethics
History repeats itself as new developments lead Detective Nguyên to resurrect an old case. Meanwhile, the stakes are raised as dreams start to sour and conspirators search for honor among thieves.
Read MoreJune 25, 2021 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Ca$h 4 Carnage, Ep. 2 – Catching Mice
New mysteries are revealed as Detective Nguyên gets her hands dirty dissecting the backgrounds of the mysterious figures of her mentor’s cold case of disappearing bodies.
ListenJune 18, 2021 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Ca$h 4 Carnage, Ep. 1 – Second Chances
As bodies start to come up missing from a university medical lab, a headstrong youth takes a job from the ego-driven professor who runs the donated cadaver program in the opening episode of this five-part 90's-era noir.
ListenJune 11, 2021 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Oh My God, Did You Just Say That?! – LIVE
Host John Rensenhouse welcomes back guests Cathy Barnett and Phil Fiorini for our first-ever LIVE show, including a lively and witty conversation with more fun games to get John to declare, "Oh my God, did you just say that?!"
Read MoreMay 28, 2021 Arts & Culture, Podcast
The Hitchhiker (from Suspense)
A man embarks on a solo cross-country drive to California, only to find more company than he expected on his journey.
Read MoreMay 21, 2021 Arts & Culture, Podcast
Oh My God, Did You Just Say That? (with Cathy Barnett and Phil Fiorini)
The first episode of an all-new, all-different game and talk show with host John Rensenhouse and special guests, Kansas City actors Cathy Barnett and Phil Fiorini! Tune as Cathy and Phil talk about scandalous bits from their separate and shared pasts and answer outrageous questions.
Read MoreMay 14, 2021 Arts & Culture, Podcast
The Bickersons: The New Apartment
Blanche pines for a new place as John has a potential business partner to entertain. Will they move up from their room without a view?
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