Articles“The best manager in the world”
Though the building possessed undeniable historical significance, Londré had more than one reason to attempt to save the Grand Opera House. She explains that Abraham Judah, “the man who built and ran it, was a very, very wonderful theatre person,” saluted by actors and audiences alike as “the best manager in the world.”
The UMRB grant gave me the time to go to the downtown library and sit there all day, reading newspapers, immersed in the past.
Preserving the Enchanted Years of the Stage
Felicia Hardison Londré
Professor, Theatre
UM Kansas City
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Related Links
- Londré's Departmental Website
- Theatre Department at UMKC
- Kansas City Repertory Theatre (formerly Missouri Repertory Theatre)
- The Enchanted Years of the Stage: Kansas City at the Crossroads of American Theatre (2007)
- “Lorca in Metamorphosis: His Posthumous Plays”
- Jackson County Historical Society
- "The Kansas City Stage: A Personal View of Our Theatre" (lecture by Londré)
- "A Streetcar Running Fifty Years" (article by Londré)
- The Questionable Identity of Shakespeare (video podcast - iTunes required)
- "Twitting O’Neill: His Plays of the 1920s Subjected to La Critique Créatrice"