Review: BUBBLE BOY, A MUSICAL ABOUT BURSTING OUT at Johnson County Arts & Heritage Center
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Review: THE MUSIC MAN at White Theatre
Meredith Willson’s THE MUSIC MAN opened this week at The White Theatre to an almost full house standing ovation.
Review: 'Dammit, Janet' THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW is Live in Kansas City at The Grand Theatre
Forty-nine years after Richard O’Brien wrote the book, lyrics, and music for THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW it remains a cult classic, and it has risen to a new level as Padgett Productions opens THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW LIVE in the Grand Theatre at Crown Center in Kansas City.
Review: AN OLD-FASHIONED FAMILY MURDER at New Theatre & Restaurant
Imagine a very funny stage comedy hidden behind a locked door, puzzler of a 1940s mystery movie and you’ve got AN OLD-FASHIONED FAMILY MURDER now playing at New Theatre and Restaurant.
Review: DIAL M FOR MURDER at City Stage At Union Station
It is a quest to commit the perfect murder, and it almost works.
Review: TREE OF LIFE at White Theatre
Victor Wishna’s new play “Tree of Life” deserves an audience beyond its current World Premiere production ending on September 22.
Review: LA CAGE AUX FOLLES at Music Theater Heritage
Looking for a little relief from the ongoing political season? If so, I should like to recommend the outrageous, belly-laugh of a show now playing in the Music Theatre Heritage Grand Theater on the fourth floor of Crown Center described by another audience member as “awesome.
Review: SISTER ACT THE MUSICAL At Theatre In The Park
The final show of Theater In The Park’s 2024 outdoor season is a musical version of the 1992 film comedy “SISTER ACT.
Review: THE LITTLE MERMAID at White Theatre
What did our critic think of THE LITTLE MERMAID at White Theatre?
Review: MOULIN ROUGE THE MUSICAL at American Theatre Guild
MOULIN ROUGE The Musical Is something entirely new to the wave of Juke Box musicals overwhelming the Great White Way.
Review: DISNEY'S NEWSIES at New Theatre & Restaurant
This production of NEWSIES, directed and choreographed by Jerry Jay Cranford and assisted by Christina Burton, features a cast of twenty-two dancers and singers, plus constantly in motion LED backdrops, a bridge flown high off the stage floor, combined with three matching stair/tower units strategic
Review: BIG TROUBLE AT LITTLE YALTA at Central Standard Theatre
It is not often an audience gets the chance to participate in the developmental process of making significant art that also qualifies as fun.
Review: ANASTASIA THE MUSICAL at Theatre In The Park
Second show this spring at the Shawnee Mission Park Theatre In The Park, is ANASTASIA, a 2017 fairy tale based on a wished-for result concerning the Russian Grand Duchess Anatasia.
Review: PORGY AND BESS at Music Theater Heritage
Now playing in the Grand Theater at Crown Center is Music Theater Heritage’s production of Gershwin’s “PORGY AND BESS.
Review: THE LEHMAN TRILOGY at Kansas City Actors Theatre
The Lehman Trilogy studies American Dream Mythology as seen through the eyes of Italian playwright and poet Stefano Massini.
Review: HOT THE MUSICAL at Unicorn Theatre
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.
Review: MJ THE MUSICAL at KC Music Hall
Michael is Roman Banks with a spot-on almost miraculous personification of the Ing of Pop.
Review: SQUABBLES at New Theatre Restaurant
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.
Review: ROCKY THE MUSICAL at MTKC Pro
The Music Theatre Kansas City – (Pro) KC Premiere production of the 2014’s Broadway version of “Rocky the Musical” is surprisingly worth your time.
Review: STRANGER SINGS, THE PARODY MUSICAL at The Black Box
But on the upside, there is always Hawkins, Indiana, nothing strange ever happens there.
Review: CLUE at Kauffman Center
Three quarters of a century following its first North American game release, a top-quality touring play version of “Clue, A New Comedy” has appeared set in a mansion located in suburban Washington, D.
Review: GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER at White Theatre At The JCC
“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” is a very funny idea and the 2014 Tony winner for best new Musical.
Review: SHOUT! THE MOD MUSICAL at Black Box Theater
Shout! The Mod Musical” is more of a loose musical revue, than a musical play.
Review: MAMMA MIA! at Kansas City Music Hall
Plain old feel-good musicals are rare.
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Xanadu Music Theatre Kansas City (7/17-7/19) |
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Guns N’ Roses Busch Stadium (8/16-8/16) |
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Clint Black & Midland Ozarks Amphitheater (10/10-10/10) |
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Wicked Kansas City Music Hall (8/12-8/30) |
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LIVIN' FAT Just Off Broadway Theatre (12/03-12/12) |
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Disney's Frozen The White Theatre at The J (7/08-7/26) |
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SIX (Boleyn Tour) Kansas City Music Hall (1/26-1/31) |
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Beehive: The 60's Musical Tent Theatre (7/08-7/18) |
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Rainbow Kitten Surprise at Starlight Theatre Starlight Theatre (7/27-7/27) |
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Wicked Kansas City Music Hall (8/22-8/22) |