A new production of the 1990 award winning stage adaption of “Grapes” by Frank Galati plays now through November 19 at the new Arts Asylum in the lower level theater of their new facility at 824 E Meyer Boulevard in the Brookside neighborhood of Kansas City.
Now being performed at the Kauffman Center and concluding this weekend is a wonderful rendition by the Lyric Opera of Kansas City of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s final composition together, “The Sound of Music” This production is as good as it gets.
Imagine the Grimm bedtime stories presented on steroids buttressed by the occasional homage to animated motion picture favorites.
Aaron Sorkin’s 2018 stage re-imagination of the classic Harper Lee novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” opened Tuesday at the Kansas City Music Hall for a one week run.
Seldom does an entertainment attain a level of fiendish absurdity that affords audiences belly busting hilarity after more than forty years.
A new production of a light comedy called “Always a Bridesmaid” is about a week into a three month run at New Theatre Restaurant.
Kansas City Actors Theater last week opened their new production of “Skeleton Crew” a relatively new (2016) play by Dominique Morisseau on the City Stage located on the lower level of Union Station.
“Grand Horizons” is the tongue-in–cheek moniker given the senior development to which the fifty-year, mostly amicable marriage of Bill and Nancy French has recently been downsized.
“A Chorus Line” from Music Theater Heritage is a not-to- be missed interpretation of a challenging show.
Shawnee Mission Park’s “Theatre in the Park,” marks the season with an oddly appropriate July production of “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas.
The point of musical theater (for most people) is pure entertainment, and the New Theatre & Restaurant original production of 1981’s DREAMGIRLS hits the bullseye.
Broadway veteran Carrie St.
The White Theatre at the Jewish Community Center closes out its eighteenth season with an excellent production of a story ripped from the scrolls of Genesis, chapters 37-50.
Part of the fun of live theater is revisiting favorite materials and seeing how new directors and new actors re-interpret the material.
“Meet Me In St.
If, by chance, you are still looking for something fun to do with your visitors this holiday weekend, I highly recommend Cirque du Soleil’s incredible “Corteo” now playing at the T-Mobile Center.
TOOTSIE (The Musical), is a fun opening evening for the seventy-first season of Starlight Theatre at Swope Park across from the Kansas City Zoo.
EDDIE, the play, ends with the recognition of Israel by the United States.
It is hard to imagine a tougher gig for any actor than a one-man show about an historical personage; especially in front of people who may have known that person in life or are related to him by blood.
Toni Stone was the first female to play professional baseball in a major American baseball league and she happened to be African American.
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