Review: BOOK OF DAYS at Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre
Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre kicks off its 2025 calendar year offerings with an offbeat murder mystery/character study by Lanford Wilson called BOOK OF DAYS performed at The Westport Bowery.
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Review: PARADE at Kauffman Theatre
The touring company of PARADE, now playing at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, recounts the sad, but true tale of Leo Frank and Mary Phagan.
Review: CHICAGO: THE MUSICAL at Kauffman Theater
Chicago, the Musical, now playing at the Kauffman Center for Performing Arts, is a super evening out for you and your significant other.
Review: FUNNY GIRL at Kansas City Music Hall
FUNNY GIRL is one of the crown gems of the American Musical Theater.
Review: NUNSENSE at New Theatre Restaurant
Heating up the boards at New Theatre Restaurant now through February 2, 2025 is a new production of a reliable Off-Broadway Musical Review called NUNSENSE featuring a very funny quintet of comedy Sisters from the “Little Sisters of Olathe.
Review: MAXINE'S CHRISTMAS CAROL Opens in Kansas City at At the City Stage
Spoiler alert: What did the iconic Maxine from MAXINE’S CHRISTMAS CAROL learn on opening night? The answer: She learned that Padget Productions has another holiday treat on its hands.
Review: CIRQUE DU SOLEIL: TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE... at KANSAS CITY MUSIC HALL
Cirque Du Soleil’s excellent new Christmas Show, TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE… opens at the Kansas City Music Hall for eight performances beginning THE NIGHT BEFORE…Thanksgiving Day and continues through Sunday, December 1.
Review: BUBBLE BOY, A MUSICAL ABOUT BURSTING OUT at Johnson County Arts & Heritage Center
What did our critic think of BUBBLE BOY, A MUSICAL ABOUT BURSTING OUT at Johnson County Arts & Heritage Center?
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.
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New Dance Partners - The Ultimate Collaboration Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College (9/18-9/19) |
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Don’t Talk To The Actors Olathe Civic Theatre Assn (OCTA) (4/09-4/25) |
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Bryson Tiller Hollywood Casino Amphitheater (10/03-10/03) |
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Yamato Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College (3/27-3/27) |
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'Style Thief Fashion Show: Tools Not Rules Tour' Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College (2/20-2/20) |
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BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY Just Off Broadway Theatre (3/11-3/20) |
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'The Who's Tommy' Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College (10/14-10/14) |
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Suffs Unicorn Theartre (6/02-6/20) |
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Jefferson Starship Capital Region MU Health Care Amphitheater (9/27-9/27) |
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Red Like Fruit Unicorn Theatre (10/14-10/25) |