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BWW Review: Kick Off the Halloween Season With THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW in Kansas City at Louis Curtiss Studio Building
If I was to have to find one flaw in the ROCKY HORROR SHOW, now playing at the Louis Curtiss Studio Building in Kansas City (formerly Prohibition Hall), it is that I only get to review it once this run. Seeing so many shows each year it is seldom that one comes along that makes me want to see it ag...
BWW Review: RAGTIME at Musical Theater Heritage
a?oeRagtimea?? at Musical Theatre Heritage is more than just a great show. It has harnessed extraordinary power to move its audience and remind us of the idea that is America....
BWW Review: CARMINA BURANA at KC Ballet
KC Ballet's 2019-20 season premiere features humor, color, and magical images...
The Last Romance at New Theatre Restaurant
An evening at the theater does not get much better than New Theatre's “The Last Romance.” Joe DiPietro's “The Last Romance” is a rare example of a charming, tiny, four-person comedy-drama that rises to be an extraordinary production through the talent force of its actors and the care of it...
BWW Review: SWEET CHARITY at Theatre In The Park (Indoors)
Opening this past Friday was the Theatre In The Park, indoor, community theater production of 1966's 'Sweet Charity' The show is best known for several Cy Coleman/Dorothy Field songs that have long survived the play's original run and several revivals. The most well-known tunes are 'Big Spender,' '...
BWW Review: NEW DANCE PARTNERS at Carlsen Center
Four works comissioned by JCCC's Carlsen Center present very different ideas of dance....
BWW Review: HELLO, DOLLY at Starlight Theatre
Carolee Carmello becomes the latest to headilne in touring company of Hello, Dolly revival...
Carol Vaness to Hold Free Masterclass at KC Lyric Opera, October 5th
Soprano Carol Vaness to have free masterclass at KC Lyric Opera on October 5th...
BWW Review: THE ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO at KC Lyric Opera
KC Lyric's 'Seraglio' delivers a fun production, despite the subject matter....
BWW Review: RISE UP at The Coterie Theatre
Opening on Friday night at The Coterie Theatre inside Crown Center is a?oeRise Up,a?? a four person, seventy five minute play written by British playwright Lisa Evans. The subject is the 1961 a?oeFreedom Ridersa?? project designed by James Farmer's CORE (Congress of Racial Equality). The premise i...
BWW Review: GROSS INDECENCY - THE THREE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE at Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre
'Gross Indecency; The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde' is a fascinating, well-acted, and well-directed construct of the playwright's final years seen through the lenses of Wilde himself, his lovers, his accusers, and his defenders....
BWW Review: 'MASTER HAROLD' ... AND THE BOYS at KC Actors Theatre
Athol Fugard's semi-autobiographical play seeks to 'exorcise' the demons of his upbringing....
BWW Review: One of Kansas City's Best Dramas MASTER HAROLD...AND THE BOYS Opens at City Stage
The Kansas City Actors Theatre continues to provide Kansas City with some of the best dramas to appear in local theater with the opening of a?oeMASTER HAROLDa??a??AND THE BOYS Saturday night, at the City Stage in Union Station. Directed by Gary Heisserer the play runs through September 29....
BWW Review: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF at Kansas City Repertory Theatre
Kansas City Repertory Theatre opens its 2019-2020 season with an ambitious production of a difficult, intense, family drama by Tennessee Williams, one of the twentieth century's most renowned talents. a?oeCata?? won a Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1955 and is said to have been Williams' favorite....
BWW Review: DNR at Living Room Theatre
Former Navy corpsman Bud McNamara (Gary Neal Johnson) lies sleeping in the hospital bed. Amanda Kalowsky (Jen Mays), a hospital volunteer, has agreed to comfort patients who are alone and terminal.
This is the basic setup to Victor Wishna's new play, a?oeDNA,a?? now enjoying its world premiere a...
BWW Review: WHO'S YOUR BAGHDADDY Opens at the Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City
The Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City opened its 46th season with WHO'S YOUR BAGHDADDY, OR HOW I STARTED THE IRAQ WAR on Saturday, September 7, on the Levin Stage. As with most of the productions coming out of the Unicorn Theatre the show itself was extremely well-produced, with fabulous talent, and w...
BWW Review: THE 60'S ROCK MUSICAL HAIR OPENS IN KANSAS CITY AT THE BLACK BOX THEATRE
Join the highly talented tribe of HAIR as Padgett Productions brought the opening night to Kansas City on Saturday, September 7. This is one of the top productions of the highly acclaimed musical that I have had the good fortune to review. Return to an age of hippies, free-love, and the tribe as y...
BWW Review: CIRQUE DREAMS - JUNGLE FANTASY at Starlight Theatre
Playing this weekend only at Starlight Theatre is the traveling version of the very successful a?oeCirque Dreams a?' Jungle Fantasy.a?? a?oeCirque Dreamsa?? is a family friendly, modern, circus production and was greeted with thunderous applause and warm approval from an almost full amphitheater. Th...
BWW Review: BRIGHT STAR Opens at the Buddy Rogers Family Playhouse
A BRIGHT STAR shines, shines, shines in the Olathe Civic Theatre Associations (OCTA) current production of BRIGHT STAR now playing at the Buddy Rogers Family Playhouse in Olathe. Directed by Julie Ewing, with music direction by Ashley Jones, and choreography by Carolyn Braverman this phenomenal pro...
BWW Review: EVERY BRILLIANT THING OPENS AT SPINNING TREE THEATRE IN KANSAS CITY at Spinning Tree Theatre
Billed as a one-man show EVERY BRILLIANT THING opened Saturday, August 17 at Spinning Tree Theatre now located in the Johnson County Arts and Heritage Center in Overland Park, Kansas. This opening production for their ninth season is anything but a one-man show. Filled with interaction with the au...
BWW Review: IN THE HEIGHTS Takes Musicals to a New Height in Kansas City at Musical Theater Heritage
From the first bar of the opening song the audience quickly realizes this is not just another musical, it is an experience. The spectacular production of IN THE HEIGHTS opened Saturday, August 10 at Musical Theater Heritage in Crown Center under the direction of Nedra Dixon. This is the first produ...
BWW Review: Henrik Ibsen's A DOLL'S HOUSE Opens on City Stage in Kansas City
What a roller-coaster of emotions at a preview performance of A DOLL'S HOUSE on the City Stage inside Union Station. The three-act play produced by the Kansas City Actor's Theatre opens Saturday, August 10th and runs through August 25th. Darren Sextro adapted and directs A DOLL'S HOUSE from the 1...
BWW Review: WIZARD OF OZ at Theatre In The Park
This very week, eighty years ago, preview showings of the film a?oeThe Wizard of Oza?? opened on silver screens in Wisconsin and Massachusetts. Audiences were wowed. The new a?oeTheatre In The Parka?? production of Dorothy and Toto's big adventure is every bit as spectacular and fun as the 1939...
BWW Review: A BRONX TALE at Starlight Theatre
'A Bronx Tale,' playing this week at Starlight Theatre, is one of those hidden gems of a show that enjoyed a fairly limited Broadway run. And because the Broadway run ended last fall after 700 performances (for now), a good portion of the New York cast has signed up for the touring company and are p...
BWW Review: KISS ME KATE at Leawood Stage Company
Leawood Stage Company, the mainly city supported suburban, community theater program under the Leawood (KS) Park and Recreation District operates in several city controlled locations including the outdoor Ironwoods Amphitheatre. The current production, Cole Porter's "Kiss Me Kate," opened this pa...
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