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BWW Review: YIDDISH WITH DICK AND JANE at 2017 KC Fringe Festival
As part of the 2017 KC Fringe, 'Yiddish With Dick And Jane' is worth seeing at the Arts Asylum close to downtown. Although just about anyone can enjoy this one, it says something about age when one realizes his own education falls after the McGuffey Reader period and smack in the middle of 'Reading ...
BWW Review: THE ART OF MAGIC at 2017 KC Fringe Festival
Five man magic show provides professional and enjoyable hour...
BWW Review: ALL STAR DETECTIVES at 2017 Fringe Festival
Misguided attempt at film noir style misses the target...
BWW Review: SOMETHING ROTTEN at Starlight Theatre
Dust off your willing suspension of disbelief. Starlight Theatre transforms into Elizabethan London in the year 1595. The play is 'Something Rotten.' William Shakespeare has not authored his 38 famous plays and 150 sonnets. By masquerading as patron to the struggling Bottom Brothers from Cornwall, t...
BWW Review: HUCK FINN - GUEST OF THE WINDING WIND at Just Off Broadway Theatre
Props and Costumes are the high points. The playwright should reread Huck Finn...
BWW Review: BACK TO THE 80S at Theatre In The Park
It's big hair, even bigger music numbers, and a little Star Wars as Theatre in the Park takes audiences BACK TO THE 80S....
BWW Review: THE CRUCIBLE at Barn Players
Crucible reminds us of the good old bad old days of church extremism and Congressional blacklists along with a warning for today....
BWW Review: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET at New Theatre Restaurant
Imagine transitional rock superstars Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis hanging out together for an impromptu recording session early in their musical careers. This is the unlikely, but mostly true tale told by the new production of the 2010 Broadway musical 'Million Dolla...
BWW Review: AN AMERICAN IN PARIS at Starlight Theatre
There are many musicals with the songs of George and Ira Gershwin intricately woven into them, but few have the grace and elegance of ballet like AN AMERICAN IN PARIS....
BWW Review: JERSEY BOYS at Starlight Theatre
One you transport back to the late 50s and 60s this one is a lot of fun....
BWW Review: 'MAMMA MIA!' at Kansas City Starlight Theatre
Combining ABBA's greatest hits, including 'Dancing Queen,' 'S.O.S' 'Super Trouper,' 'Take a Chance on Me' and 'The Winner Takes It All,' with an enchanting tale of love, laughter and friendship Catherine Johnson has crafted a plot to expertly string together these more than 20 songs (written by Benn...
BWW Review: CRAZY FOR YOU at Theatre In The Park
'Crazy For You,' now playing at the Theatre In The Park in Shawnee Mission Park, is the theatrical equivalent of the 'Little Engine That Could.' It represents the fifth generation of musical shows based on George and Ira Gershwin's 1930 'Girl Crazy' score. Even though the original version kicked off...
BWW Review: HAMLET in Kansas City at Southmoreland Park. Shakespeare's revenge tragedy a treasure for Kansas City theatergoers
World class performance of 'Hamlet' now playing for free at Kansas City's Southmoreland Park next door to the Nelson-Adkins Museum. Featuring a stellar cast who breathe a fresh breath into Shakespeare's revenge tragedy....
BWW Review: YOU'VE GOT A FRIEND at Quality Hill Playhouse
Several hours spent with Kent Barnhart and friends at Quality Hill Playhouse are never time wasted if you love the great American songbook. The current sold out program features two hours of music celebrating tunes music of Carole King, James Taylor, and a few others of similar genre from the 1960s ...
BWW Review: GREASE at TTIP Indoors
Excellent production kicks off Black Box theater history...
BWW Review: TOMMY at MTH
Excellent production of a very complex piece of Musical Theater...
BWW Review: PRICILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT: THE MUSICAL at Unicorn Theatre
Unicorn Theatre's production of PRICILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT: THE MUSICAL comes just in time for Pride Month and reminds everyone of the joys of being your authentic self with a 'journey to the heart of fabulous!'...
BWW Review: VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE. at City Theatre Of Independence
Now running at the City Theater of Independence is the 2013 Tony winning comedy 'Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike' by Christopher Durang. Based loosely on charcters and the works of Anton Checkhov, you don't have to be familiar with the Russian writer to get all the jokes. Well, you might need to...
BWW Review: THE LITTLE MERMAID at Starlight Theatre
Disney's Little Mermaid at Starlight offers a great show and value added video assist...
BWW Review: MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT at Theatre In The Park
An energetic cast take on the resplendently silly musical comedy Spamalot at Kansas City's Theatre in the Park. This adventure into British humor, slapstick shenanigans, musical farce, satire, parody, tap dancing, and grail quest keeps it's audience laughing the whole way through....
BWW Review: THE DIXIE SWIM CLUB at New Theatre Restaurant
Five expert actors led by Morgan Fairchild entertain with sight gags, snappy dialog, and true caring for their oldest friends....
BWW Review: FUN HOME at Kauffman Center
You can find an abundance of gay jokes in any musical or play, but FUN HOME is one of the few musicals that actually revolve around characters being gay and discovering that world....
BWW Review: ASSASSINS at Spinning Tree Theatre
Troubling premise...
BWW Review: THE REALISTIC JONESES at Kansas City Actors Theatre
Will Eno's 'The Realistic Joneses' at KCAT plots two couples, who are new neighbors in a small mountain town, as they navigate married life through not always ideal situations. This tightly balanced ensemble cast crafts a show that traverses a minefield of typical relationship troubles keeping it f...
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