Kansas City Theatre Newsroom

The 2024-2025 PNC Broadway in Kansas City Series announces its season add-on, featuring a variety of exciting shows and performances. Stay tuned for more details on the upcoming theatrical season.

Experience the fun and excitement of BYE BYE BIRDIE at Theatre in the Park this May.

Broadway talents Jeremy Benton, Sydney Jones, Erick Pinnick, Joel Newsome, Don Richard, and Joseph Ryan Harrington join THE LYCEUM for 42ND STREET. See performance dates and learn how to purchase tickets.

The Lehman Trilogy studies American Dream Mythology as seen through the eyes of Italian playwright and poet Stefano Massini. The English translation by Ben Power transfigures itself into an absorbing and poignant exercise in stellar storytelling as one might imagine it by three brothers around a metaphorical campfire.

Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey will celebrate the 35th anniversary of its acclaimed AileyCamp program, an innovative summer initiative aimed at empowering middle school students through the art of dance and creative expression.

Head on over to the Goppert Theatre at Avila University this weekend for The SpongeBob musical. First Act Theatre Arts is finishing out their 24th season with this immersive, family friendly show.

Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts has announced the 2025 Trailblazing Talks speaker series, which is made possible by the Teresa and Tom Walsh Family Foundation. The series features five presenters, including nature and science photographers, a mountaineer, a NASA engineer and others. 

Explore the new Charlotte Street exhibition, 'Read The Room,' featuring interactive installations and thought-provoking art pieces.

In performance now through June 2 is HOT THE MUSICAL, an entertaining and original new take on the Greek Mythology surrounding Helen of Troy and the Trojan Wars. The show is staged at Unicorn Theatre on Main Street. This one is definitely worth your time.

Three former KC SuperStar finalists will serve as judges for the 2024 Semifinals at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 6 in The Lewis and Shirley White Theatre at the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park. 

Music Theater Heritage has announced the cast and creative team for The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. Performances run June 6 through June 23.

Get ready for a fun, immersive theater experience as THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL opens at Goppert Theatre at Avial University, presented by First Act Theatre Arts. Learn how to purchase tickets.

 Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts has announced the latest additions to the Kauffman Center Presents fall 2024 line-up. Learn more about the upcoming shows here!

Discover the 2024-2025 season lineup at Park University's International Center for Music. Immerse yourself in the world of music with performances from renowned artists.

Michael is Roman Banks with a spot-on almost miraculous personification of the Ing of Pop.  The dancing, the voice, the persona.  They are all there.  Banks offers a remarkable performance.  

Discover the line-up and schedule for the 2024 Future Stages Festival at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.

For those of you who feel the need for a light, fun evening of laugh out loud comedy and a delightful meal, let me recommend “SQUABBLES” a live comedy play that has Just opened at New Theatre Restaurant in Overland Park.  “SQUABBLES” is a light comedy with an unusually tight and experienced cast featuring Donny Most (from the old “Happy Days” sitcom) and an excellent group of mostly local actors. 

Kansas City Actors Theatre will kick off its 2024/2025 20th Anniversary Season of productions with the award-winning The Lehman Trilogy by Stefano Massini, adapted to English by Ben Power.

Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts has announced two exciting additions to the Kauffman Center Presents fall 2024 line-up.

The Coterie Theatre has announced its 2024/2025 season lineup. Learn more here!

Discover the exciting lineup for The Coterie's 2024/2025 season, beginning with a co-produced world premiere with the American Royal in September 2025. Stay updated with BroadwayWorld for more details.

Discover the exciting lineup for the 2024-2025 season at the Midwest Trust Center. From Broadway hits to unique performances, there's something for everyone in the upcoming schedule.

Wandering a bit outside the Kansas City Metro, Broadway World had the opportunity to explore a current production running at the Fox Theatre in downtown Springfield as a co-production of Springfield Contemporary Theatre and Resident Artist Ensemble. The play is 2013’s THE OTHER PLACE by Sharr White, a fascinating, four actor study of one woman’s journey of discovery as she experiences unexplained changes in what should be the prime of her life.

Tickets for AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER IN CONCERT in Kansas City are on sale now. This production will take the Kauffman Center stage on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024 for two performances at 2:00 and 7:30 p.m. 

Join the orchestra on Thursday evening May 2 for a concert featuring a program filled with propulsive music of the Baroque era. Part of its Baroque by Candlelight series, this KCCO concert includes Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 unusually featuring the lower strings with violas soloists, cellos, bass, and harpsichord.