KANSAS CITY THEATER REVIEWS

Journey deep into the mind of a suburban family...

'If/Then,' now playing through Sunday at the Starlight Theatre, is a show the audience wants to love. It is chock full of big songs, great performances, and memorable dancing. Sets are cleverly designed to resemble impressionist versions of everyday New York big city locations that have the ability ...

Selection of 20th Century songs recalls fun of 60s and 70s...

It's guns, gangsters, flappers, and booze. BULLETS OVER BROADWAY takes the audience back to the 1920's with a rowdy performance that will have you laughing in your seat....

Growing up with fairy tales we are used to a happy ending. In the movie, the guy always gets the girl. But THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY playing at Starlight Theatre changes all of those preconceived notions....

MTH's 'Big River' Soars...

Starlight Theatre's Broadway season stepped off Friday evening with the offbeat, intimate 'Once' based on a 2007 film of the same name. The film became a cult favorite and earned the 2008 Academy Award for Best Song 'Falling, Slowly.' Rewritten for the stage and transformed into a full-fledged music...

Eric Rosen scores hit new show with comedy melodrama with an edge....

shares new life into Roberts & Hammerstein tunes...

Lyric Opera brings great singers together for memorable production of Bizet's Carmen...

Dark Fantasy Drama about life on the Mexican side of the border...

Complicated piece of theater requires audience go along for the ride...

K-Boots based the experience of a true UK shoe factory....

Musical Theatre Heritage returns to its radio roots with a revival of the 1946 Irving Berlin musical play, 'Annie Get Your Gun.' This MTH production stars the huge voice of Shelby Floyd in the title role of Annie Oakley. Baritone Sam Wright plays Annie's true life husband Frank Butler. Jim Korinke, ...

A show worth seeingAn inspired piano overture flows smoothly into 'The Fantasticks' signature opening song; 'Try To Remember.' 'The Fantasticks' is a simple fable for all time about a boy, a girl, their two fathers, and a wall. Kansas City Repertory Theatre reinvents 'The Fantasticks,' history's mos...

I was pretty excited to see this show, I do not usually look anything up about a show if I do not know a whole lot about it; I like to go in completely blind. But a minute into this show I started to panic, I knew nothing about Janis Joplin. I guess I should have known from the title what I was in...

'The Island' brings home the tragedy that was aparttieid....

Elixir enjoys great success in updated version...

A cast of three plus Kent offers a memorable evening of song...

Tech aspects first class... story too complex...

Enjoyable show with fine singers...

Difficult to watch, but worth the effort...

Coterie's first bi-lingual production relates the story of Tomas Rivera late chancellor at UC-Riverside at a small boy...

All that dance and great leads make for fun...

Kansas City, watch what happens when a group of newsboys take on one of the most important journalists of their time....