artistic director. Altman came to the Rep after eighteen years as founding producing director of the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston. Under his direction and that of the theater's board of directors, led by William C. Nelson, Kansas City Rep was committed to building on its four-decade tradition, expanding its audience, upgrading and diversifying its range of artists, and extending its repertoire to include new work and large-scale classics. The Board of Directors voted in 2004 to rename the company Kansas City Repertory Theatre to reflect better its identity, location, and audience. That same year a major refurbishment of Spencer Theatre was completed. The Rep under Eric Rosen (2007-2012) Kansas City Repertory Theatre appointed Eric Rosen as its new Artistic Director in 2007. He was a co-founder and artistic director of About Face Theatre, a nationally recognized LGBT theatre located in Chicago, and is a leader in the development of new work and a playwright. Rosen started a new era at the Rep with an inaugural 2008/09 season that included the pre-New York run of the hip-hop musical Clay, August Wilson's final play in his ten-play cycle Radio Golf, Mary Zimmerman's epic Arabian Nights, a new musical based on Sherwood Anderson's novel Winesburg, Ohio, a new thriller The Borderland, Tennessee Williams classic The Glass Menagerie and the French farce A Flea in Her Ear. Two stages, one Rep. In February 2007, the Rep opened a second venue, Copaken Stage, a 317-seat downtown theater located in the heart of the new Power and Light entertainment district. References Kansas City Repertory Theatre (re-printed with permission) External links Kansas City Repertory Theatre official site Theatre companies in Missouri Theatres in Kansas City, Missouri