March 12, 2025 Updated Thu., March 13, 2025 at 3:30 p.m. Rhead Shirley (playing Mischa Machinski), left to right, Lacey Olson (Ocean O’Connell Rosenberg), Owen Henderson (Noel Gruber), Tori Diana ...

Six dead choir kids. One magical fortune-telling machine. A bass-playing rat named Virgil. I knew I had to be in the theater for the Wichita State music theatre club’s “Ride the Cyclone” production.

How highly or wholly original can a show be, when it’s so readily likened to any number of others? The marketing tactic of inviting comparisons between one show and another, or the tendency of some ...

If you associate cyclone-riding with Pecos Bill (folkloric Texan with a lasso), you may just skew toward the older end of the screaming (with delight) audience at Little Theatre of Norfolk’s bang-up ...