KANSAS CITY THEATER REVIEWS

TTIP finds itself on the right side of the road with AVENUE Q, now showing at the Johnson County Arts and Heritage Center Theatre in Overland Park...

MTH Theatre's 'Broadway's Golden Age' is a couple of hours well spent for those of us who love classic musical theatre. A revue full of show tunes is relatively common in Kansas City, but this George Harter written retrospective has a throughput theme and a singing - dancing cast that is particularl...

Lyric Opera of Kansas City opened its excellent production of Verdi's 'Rigoletto' this weekend to appreciative audiences.  The voices are excellent, the orchestra is sublime, and the sets are both massive and ornate. ...

'Tuck Everlasting' performing live at the Coterie Theatre is a stirring show that questions what life would be like if we were immortal here on earth. Jammed full of thoughtful performances and youthful energy it beams with optimism. Showing February 27 thru April 5, 2018 in Crown Center in the h...

Broadway Across America's "Finding Neverland" opens as a wonderful possibility, yet refuses to soar as we dare to hope it might.   "Neverland" is a pretty darn good show imbued with magical moments, yet somehow falls short of the special experience it might have been....

Starlight Indoor Theatre KC closes their winter season with the hilarious 'Broadway's Next H!T Musical' a musical-comedy improvisation created on stage from audience suggested material. Showing Feb 27- March 4, 2018, #PhonyAwards on Facebook and Instagram at BroadwaysNextHitmusical...

New Theatre Restaurant's 'Barefoot in the Park' is a charming, time warp that points up how much attitudes in America have shifted over 55 years.  A romantic comedy in the best 'Doc' Simon tradition. ...

Dixie's Tube Top tears into town like a tornado ripping through a trailer park. Dixie Longate stars in this latest installment of comedy from the Tupperware Queen of Mobile. Now showing at the Starlight Theatre in Kansas City Feb 13-18, 2018...

This community theatre production co-directed by Zach Faust and Steven Eubank both cooks and works. The actors have made these characters their own....

Kansas City Repertory Theatre's re-imagined production of Simon Stephen's 2013 award winning "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" is funny, inventive, touching, and deeply engaging for its audience....

If you're in need of a good belly laugh that only high comedy can deliver you won't want to miss the latest incarnation of "Forbidden Broadway", now showing at the Starlight (indoor) Theatre in Kansas City. Showing Jan 30 thru Feb 4, 2018 this is true musical comedy parody fun....

"Project Dawn," Karen Hartman's new play at the Unicorn Theatre, is powerfully heart-rending, often slyly funny, and serendipitously timely during a national conversation over drug abuse and sex trafficking....

The Secret of Courage by Laurie Brooks based on the story 'Imaginary Friends' by Terry Brooks, is an enchanting tale of heartache, friendship, and courage. Now showing at the Coterie Theatre in Crown Center near Downtown Kansas City MO. Combining live action with dramatic special effects this new ...

That Old Black Magic," runs now through February 18th at Quality Hill Playhouse in downtown Kansas City. A superior cast and outstanding backup musicians make for a typically professional evening of classic tunes this time by Harold Arlen....

KCAT garners high marks for 'Sea Marks' an Irish romantic comedy now showing at the City Theatre in Union Station. Starring Cinnamon Schultz and Darren Kennedy as an unlikely romantic couple the show explores romance, personal acceptance, and the lure of the sea....

Katie Karel is an acting dynamo in Unicorn Theatre's production of Chesapeake, by Lee Blessing and directed by Cynthia Levin, showing December 19, 2017 thru Jan 7, 2018 Tickets at UNICORNTHEATRE.ORG...

Musical Theater Heritage at Crown Center offers its tenth-annual original Spectacular Christmas Show. Locally written and produced holiday shows are sometimes times prone to hyperbole. This particular performance is SPECTACULAR in almost every way a show can be outstanding. The 2017 MTH Spectacu...

Music Theatre - Kansas City Pro opens its new auditorium integrated inside the B&B 18 screen multiplex on Midland Drive in Shawnee. The show is 'A Wonderful Life - The Musical' with book and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. Ironically, this musical adaption of the classic 1946 Christmas film with James St...

Inspired silliness. Now playing at the New Theatre Restaurant in Overland Park through February 11, 2018 is the 1994 British farce 'Funny Money' starring Jim O'Heir. It is an Olivier Award nominated, misbegotten tale of misdirection, accident, flight, and comic mistaken identities....

MET audience is served up holiday magic with the live radio play version of the Capra classic 'It's a Wonderful Life' December 7-17th, 2017 Join in the festive fun as a real life radio audience as this favorite American classic is performed with energetic authenticity....

Harry Connick, Jr.'s voice narrates The Happy Elf now showing at the TTIP in the Johnson County Arts and Heritage Center Dec 8-23, 2017...

'Do you hear the people sing?' You will if you attend the 25th Anniversary edition of the 'Les Miserables' now on stage at the Kansas City Music Hall through Sunday, December 9. This is an absolutely credible recreation of the show that first hit London's West End theater district way back in 1985 a...

Kansas City has many fine holiday traditions. One of my favorites is the annual 'Christmas in Song' presented by Quality Hill Playhouse. It is an eclectic mix of old favorites, newer Broadway presentations, and songs presented in a style different than you might usually hear them....

Faithful to the original text, what is 175 years old is new again...

Quality Hill Playhouse 'Christmas in Song' a cabaret hit with a quartet of bold and beautiful voices rings in the season with their 16th annual event. Now through Christmas Eve take in the American Songbook of Christmas music as performed by J Kent Barnhart, Joseph Carr, LaTeesha McDonald Jackson,...