A new Kansas City musical follows a teen video game inventor down a digital rabbit hole

The Coterie Theatre re-imagines Lewis Carroll’s classic story “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” as a hip-hop and pop-inspired video game.
Brianna Woods had acted in shows around Kansas City and directed a radio series for Kansas City Actors Theatre, but she was nervous about her first time directing a live show.

“I was freaking out about it a lot of the time before we started,” Woods said. “And then I sat down and I was like, ‘Oh, it's just like me seeing all the other things that everybody would do around me.’”

The musical she's directing, “Alice’s Wonderland,” is based on the Lewis Carroll classic, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”

"So I just got to be like, OK, if I was the rabbit, I would wanna do this. And if I was Alice, I would wanna do this," she said. "So I kind of put a lot of my own instincts around that.”