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Review: FORBIDDEN BROADWAY at Starlight Indoors
“Forbidden Broadway” the musical parody performs on the actual indoor stage (not the Butterfield Stage) at Starlight Theatre in Swope Park in front of an audience of about 500 wildly amused patrons.
Review: CONDO-MONIUM at New Theatre & Restaurant
The North American Premiere engagement for CONDO-MONIUM opened last week at Overland Park’s New Theatre & Restaurant with a super cast and direction by Dennis D.
Review: MY FAIR LADY at Kauffman Center
The core notion behind Lerner and Lowe’s 1956 “My Fair Lady.
Review: FLOOD at KC Rep
This reviewer has always been a fan of absurdist theatre, so it was with considerable excitement that she attended the evening's performance, eager to see a premiere that has come a mere 3 years after its workshop reading in 2019 (thanks again, covid).
Review: KINKY BOOTS at The White Theatre
Live, local musical theater in Kansas City opens for 2023 with a delightful, surprising, unexpected production of 2013’s six-time Tony Award winner “Kinky Boots.
Review: HADESTOWN at Kansas City Music Hall
Blend two ancient Greek myths, add the climate change crisis, a screed on capitalism, fears surrounding immigration, sprinkle in delightful, original folk music, and stir.
Review: WHO'S HOLIDAY, A CHRISTMAS FAVORITE NOW PLAYING IN KANSAS CITY at Musical Theater Heritage
If you want to see a hilarious Christmas show, then it’s to WHO’S HOLIDAY you should go.
Review: COME BLOW YOUR HORN at New Theatre Restaurant
New Theatre Restaurant’s new production of Neil Simon’s COME BLOW YOUR HORN is a holiday gift to its audiences.
Review: PRETTY WOMAN THE MUSICAL at KC Music Hall
Very entertaining - if not high concept.
Review: TELL-TALE ELECTRIC POE OPENS IN KANSAS CITY AT at The Coterie Theatre
Three of the master of the macabre, Edgar Allen Poe’s most frightening and grizzly pieces appear on the main stage of The Coterie Theatre through October 30 with TELL-TALE ELECTRIC POE.
Review: THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW USHERS IN HALLOWEEN IN KANSAS CITY at The Black Box
It’s astounding, time is fleeting, madness takes its toll.
Review: MAN OF LA MANCHA at Music Theater Heritage
Playing now at Music Theater Heritage through October 23 at Crown Center is an imaginative new production of 1965's Tony award winning Best Musical 'Man of La Mancha' offered by Musical Theater Heritage.
Review: AKEELAH AND THE BEE at Coterie Theatre
How do you spell winner? A-K-E-E-L-A-H because that’s what The Coterie Theatre has in their production of AKEELAH AND THE BEE, now playing at the theater located in Crown Center.
Review: ABOUT ALICE at KC Actors Theatre
KC native humorist's play a touching and often funny memorial to an extraordinary woman
Review: You Don't Want to Miss LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS At the Warwick Theatre
Nick Padgett, Producing Artistic Director of Padgett Productions presents LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, through August 21 at the Warwick Theatre in the Westport Entertainment District.
Review: PREJUDICE AND PRIDE OPENS IN KANSAS CITY at Musical Theater Heritage
The heavens are filled with bright, shiny stars and so is the stage at the Musical Theater Heritage theater located in Crown Center.
Review: WORLD PREMIERE OF ALICE'S WONDERLAND OPENS IN KANSAS CITY at Coterie Theatre
The Coterie Theatres' world premiere of a new family musical, ALICE’S WONDERLAND runs at The Coterie Theatre at Crown Center through August 7.
BWW Review: SWEENEY TODD, DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET at The Warwick Theatre
The Warwick Theatre, in the Westport Entertainment District, plays host to Padgett Productions' opening of SWEENEY TODD, THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET through June 26.
SWEENEY TODD, THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET at Warwick Theatre This June
Stephen Sondheim’s wickedly funny musical masterpiece, SWEENEY TODD, THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET, opens June 10th at the Warwick Theatre in Kansas City.
BWW Review: THE (R)EVOLUTION OF STEVE JOBS at Lyric Opera
Mason Bates' modern score underlies this unflinching look at controversial Apple co-founder.
BWW Review: DRACULA at KC Ballet
Pink and Feeney's production, first performed in Kansas City in 2014, makes is return to the Kauffman stage
BWW Review: SPECTACULAR CHRISTMAS SHOW at Musical Theater Heritage
One of the annual challenges inherent to creating an absolutely new “Spectacular Christmas Show” at Musical l Theater Heritage is how to differentiate this year’s production from the thirteen editions that preceded it.
BWW Review: THE NUTCRACKER at KC Ballet
Devon Carney's Christmas fantasy is all the more fantastic in today's worldAfter riding the tempest of the last few years, we seem to crave nothing so much as a return to 'normal'.
BWW Review: AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS at Lyric Opera
The Lyric's Amahl, created last year as an online-only performance due to Covid, makes its live stage premiere.
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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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'Treasure Island Reimagined: Jane Hawkins and the Pirate's Gold' Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College (4/02-4/03) |
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Owen/Cox Dance Group 'The Nutcracker and the Mouse King' Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College (12/10-12/13) |
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BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY Just Off Broadway Theatre (3/11-3/20) |
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Suffs Unicorn Theartre (6/02-6/20) |
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Bryson Tiller Hollywood Casino Amphitheater (10/03-10/03) |
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'What Do You Do With a Problem?' Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College (11/06-11/07) |
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Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College (1/22-1/22) |
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'Burn the Floor presents Maks & Peta Live!' Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College (4/03-4/03) |
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The Ritz Unicorn Theartre (8/12-8/30) |