KANSAS CITY THEATRE NEWSROOM

Starlight Theatre in Kansas City will present its 2026 AdventHealth Broadway Series, featuring a lineup of acclaimed Broadway shows.

The murder mystery play CLUE, based on the popular Hasbro board game, will be performed at Pikes Peak Center from March 23-25.

Music Theater Heritage has announced the cast and creative team for the world premiere of MOBY DICK: A SEA SHANTY.

Kansas City Repertory Theatre has announced that longtime Kansas City actor Gary Neal Johnson will receive the Dr.

KC Melting Pot Theatre willpresent Long Time Since Yesterday, by P.

Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts will present ALBERT LIN | IN SEARCH OF LOST CITIES on Tuesday, March 10, 2026 at 7:30 p.

Lyric Opera of Kansas City’s The Gershwins’ PORGY AND BESS is a vocally commanding and spiritually powerful production, led by standout performances from Eric Greene and Michelle Bradley under the legendary direction of Francesca Zambello.

Kansas City Repertory Theatre has announced the 2026-2027 season.

The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra will present a special tribute concert, NEVER TOO MUCH, celebrating the music of Luther Vandross on March 20 at Helzberg Hall, Kauffman Center.

“Elvis and Elton Together” rates a big five stars.

When the musical juggernaut titled “Hamilton” stormed into Kansas City’s gilded Music Hall this week, it arrives not as a relic of mid-2010s hype, but as a living, breathing re-invention of America’s founding fathers.

KC Melting Pot Theatre will present its upcoming Next Narrative Monologue Competition Kansas City Regional Finals, an exciting opportunity for local student performers to showcase their talent, creativity, and voice on a professional stage.

KC Melting Pot Theatre will present a High School Monologue Competition, aiming to spotlight emerging young artists.

Now “playing” at Music Theatre Heritage inside Crown Center through February 22 is the latest iteration of the most produced modern musical play in history.

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A digital lottery has been announced for HAMILTON during its upcoming Kansas City engagement.

Music Theater Heritage, the professional theater in residence at Crown Center, has released a first look at photos from its production of The Fantasticks.

A new production of Jonathan Larson’s 1996 Pulitzer Prize Winner RENT, itself a re-interpretation of Puccini’s “La Boheme,” arrives like a time capsule that refuses to stay shut as a first ever co-production of the White Theatre (inside the Jewish Community Center) and Kansas City’s vener

Today we are speaking to Tosin Morohunfola, the Playwright and Director of “The Drum Closet.

Casey and Diana, now running January 28 through February 15, 2026, is a luminous, heartbreaking, and deeply necessary work of theatre.

The Drum Closet is a deeply spiritual, urgent, and profoundly human coming-of-age story that resonates far beyond its Midwestern high school setting.

PNC Broadway in Kansas City has announced the 2026–27 season for Music Hall and the Kauffman Center.

Starlight Theatre has been allocated $3 million in Missouri tax credits by the Missouri Development Finance Board to support the final phase of its Uniquely KC capital campaign.

The White Theatre at The J is presenting RENT through February 22, 2026, as part of its 21st season.

The Kansas City Chamber Orchestra will present 'MUSIC OF LOVE,' a romantic evening featuring a gourmet dinner and chamber music at the Kemper Museum on February 13.