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BWW Review: MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM at Black Repertory Theatre
August Wilson's 'Bottom' packs an impactful and much-needed punch...
BWW Review: GHOST LIGHT at KCRep
The KCRep brings back Ghost Light for the second year, with more spooky songs and stories from a variety of KC-area voices...
BWW Review: ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE at Starlight Theatre
The final, outdoor, Broadway style show for the 2021 season at Starlight Theatre is Jimmy Buffet’s 2018 juke box musical “Escape to Margaritaville.” If you are a certified Jimmy Buffet fan, otherwise known as a Parrott-head, then this fun evening is absolutely for you....
BWW Review: MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL at New Theatre Restaurant
“Menopause The Musical” has opened with an expected “Hot Flash” for an eight week run at Overland Park’s New Theatre Restaurant. The jokes and song parodies are all gleefully inappropriate.
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BWW Review: THE COTERIE THEATRE PRESENTS ELECTRIC POE 2021 IN THE BACKDROP OF UNION CEMETERY
An early start to the year's creepiest season, Halloween, began on Friday night with the return of The Coterie Theatre’s presentation of ELECTRIC POE 2021. This is the second year of the special engagement at the oldest cemetery in Kansas City, Union Cemetery, and runs through October 31. I descri...
BWW Review: THE BOMB-ITTY OF ERRORS at Fishtank
Fishtank Theatre gives a light take on Shakespeare at the Black Box...
BWW Review: COMPANY OPENS AT THE BARN PLAYERS IN KANSAS CITY
The Barn Players make a triumphant return to the performing arts scene in Kansas City with their presentation of Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning musical, COMPANY. The conceptual musical directed by Eric Magnus, with musical direction by Michelle Allen McIntire, runs through September 26 at T...
BWW Review: AN EVENING WITH SIERRA BOGGESS at Musical Theater Heritage
“An evening with Sierra Boggess” at Musical Theater Heritage’s Quixotic Theater is a delightful way to spend any evening. Sierra was Andrew Lloyd Webber’s choice to create the role of Christine in the original production of the “Phantom” sequel “Love Never Dies.” American audiences...
BWW Review: LIFESPAN OF A FACT at Unicorn Theatre
Unicorn Theatre Artistic Director Cynthia Levin enthusiastically welcomed a properly vaccinated, masked, and socially distanced audience to the Levin Theater for the first Covid delayed Unicorn production in eighteen months. The play is a dense, but extremely well performed ninety minute one act en...
BWW Review: MOTHER OF THE MAID at Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre
Metropolitan Ensemble Theater (MET) has reopened in an improved, more comfortable, and certainly more serviceable Warwick Theater. The building remains a work in progress, but marching toward an ultimate and stylish rebirth. The opening offering is a delightful, soulful, surprising, enjoyable, wel...
BWW Review: ON YOUR FEET at Starlight Kansas City
It’s exuberant! It’s tuneful! It will make you want to dance! It is “On Your Feet,” the life story of Gloria and Emilio Estefan and their Miami Sound Machine. It is a happy exit from the lockdowns around the Covid-19 pandemic.
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BWW Review: MARY'S WEDDING at Kansas City Repertory Theatre
It was their special place; a run-down barn somewhere in a Canadian prairie province. Mary, a UK transplant during the early second decade of the twentieth century, has returned here for a kind of exorcism.
“Mary’s Wedding” is the first Kansas City directorial outing for newly minted Kan...
BWW Review: AMERICAN IDIOT Opens at the Black Box
I saw an AMERICAN IDIOT in Kansas City, and I LIKED it. Produced by Padgett Productions, AMERICAN IDIOT explodes onto the stage at The Black Box in Kansas City, Missouri. With only a short run of four days, it begins to give hope to the theater-starved residents that maybe live theater is beginning ...
BWW Review: HAIR: THEN AND NOW at Musical Theater Heritage
Live, Indoor, Actor’s Equity sanctioned, precaution observed, musical theater has returned to Crown Center. Now running through August 22 is Musical Theater Heritage’s concert production of “Hair: Then and Now.”...
BWW Review: DEAD RINGER at Musical Theater Heritage
Live Theater has returned to Musical Theater Heritage with the World Premiere production of “Dead Ringer.” Starring in this one man tour de force is Canadian performer and Kansas City favorite Zachary Stevenson....
BWW Review: THE KING IN CONCERT Returns Live Performances to the New Theatre Restaurant
Ladies and gentlemen Elvis has returned to the building! The New Theatre and Restaurant in Overland Park presents THE KING IN CONCERT, starring two-time World Champion Elvis tribute artist, Victor Trevino, Jr., now through September 12....
BWW Review: DRAGONS LOVE TACOS RUNS THROUGH AUGUST 8 AT Coterie Theatre
What happens when you give a dragon a taco with spicy jalapeno sauce? This sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but instead, it is the marvelous DRAGONS LOVE TACOS now playing at the Coterie Theatre at Crown Center through August 8. This adaption from the New York Times #1bestselling phenomenon,...
BWW Review: BLAME IT ON THE BOOGIE at Musical Theater Heritage
I can’t think of a better way to welcome live theater back to Kansas City than to BLAME IT ON THE BOOGIE a production of Musical Theater Heritage and playing in the 4th-floor theater in Crown Center. This is MTH’s first indoor production in sixteen months due to the pandemic, and as the announce...
BWW Review: KC Ballet at the Starlight
In a not-quite-post-Covid world, the resilience of the performing arts is on display at the Starlight....
BWW Review: THE FIRST IN THEATER PRODUCTION HOW TO SNAG A SEA MONSTER at Coterie Theatre
The Coterie Theatre has opened its first in-theater production since the beginning of the pandemic as it presents the Mesner Puppet Theaters’ World Premiere of HOW TO SNAG A SEA MONSTER: A TERRICALLY TALL TELL. Live performances began on Friday, April 30, and run Friday through Sunday at the Coter...
BWW Review: DIXIE'S HAPPY HOUR at Starlight Theatre
Dixie Longate is back, at least virtually, at Starlight Theatre. It’s a far reaching, no holds barred, brave ninety minute performance. ...
BWW Review: BRAINSTORM: THE INSIDE LIFE OF THE TEENAGE MIND NOW STREAMING AND ON DEMAND at Coterie Theatre
The Coterie Theatre and the University of Missouri at Kansas City have teamed together to offer the virtual co-production of BRAINSTORM: THE INSIDE LIFE OF THE TEENAGE MIND, which is streaming and on demand now through February 7. The program is suggested for families and grades 6-12....
BWW Review: THE MUSIC OF MOTOWN at MTH (Virtual)
“The Music of Motown” is the third original cabaret show in a series of video streamed entertainments from Musical Theater Heritage in the wake of the great Covid-19 pandemic. Covid has eliminated live audience performances for the time being. Each new iteration becomes a little technically be...
BWW Review: THE SPECTACULAR CHRISTMAS SHOW at Musical Theater Heritage
A KC holiday treasures I always enjoy is the “The Spectacular Christmas Show” at Musical Theater Heritage. Covid-19 has forced the “Christmas Show” off the main stage, but it has has been re-incarnated virtually and not lost much on the “Spectacular” scale and lost nothing in musical p...
BWW Review: THE SNOWY DAY AND OTHER STORIES BY EZRA JACK KEATS at The Coterie Theatre
The Covid 19 pandemic has halted live performances from Kansas City to Broadway, and all around the world. The Coterie Theatre has joined the ever-growing number of theatrical companies that are bringing their performances to their audiences virtually, with their production of THE SNOWY DAY AND OTHE...
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