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God of Carnage
God of Carnage
5/2 - 5/10/2025


Tickets are now on sale for Summit Theatre Group’s hilarious production of God of Carnage — a comedy of manners without the manners!

The Making of Our Planet: Life on Our Planet with Dan Tapster


Four billion years. Millions of species. Five mass extinction events (and counting). It’s the story of  Life on Our Planet . From the Emmy® Award-winning ...

Clue: On Stage
Clue: On Stage
4/25 - 5/4/2025


Was it the pipe in library? The rope in the kitchen? Or the laughs in the theatre? Based on the 1985 film and the iconic ...


Springfield Contemporary Theatre presents the comedic play POTUS, Or, Behind Every Great Dumb*ss are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, written by Selina Fillinger. ...

POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumb*ss are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive


When the Commander-in-Chief utters the unthinkable on a hot mic, all hell breaks loose, leaving the seven brilliant and beleaguered women he relies upon most ...

MOMS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN! The Hit Songs of Cyndi Lauper, Shania Twain, Chappell Roan and other songs perfect for Mother's Day!


Kansas City’s Own Broadway Stars Headline: MOMS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN! Presented by POP Project KC Saturday, May 10 at 2PM & 4PM InterUrban ...

Steel Magnolias
Steel Magnolias
5/2 - 5/11/2025


This touching story follows six women as they navigate life's challenges with laughter, tears, and Southern charm. The women share their lives and loves, and ...

Sister Act
Sister Act
5/16 - 5/25/2025


SISTER ACT Music by Alan Menken Lyrics by Glenn Slater Book by Cheri Steinkellner and Bill Steinkellner May 16, 2025 at 7:30pm and May 17, ...

Magic Blueberry Pancakes
Magic Blueberry Pancakes
5/30 - 5/31/2025


The Balladeer Theatre Company is an exciting new venture in the professional theatre world. Join us for a new play by Kayli Gurley...that was nominated ...

Kinnor Philharmonic - Summer Performance


Kick your summer off with our artists-in-residence, Kinnor Philharmonic, as they perform amazing music with a Jewish twist....


The Guest Critic series at Charlotte Street invites national curators to engage with Kansas City artists in public critiques. The event features Jovanna Venegas, currently ...

All Shook Up
All Shook Up
5/30 - 6/8/2025


The music of Elvis comes alive in All Shook Up. Inspired by Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, All Shook Up follows a small Midwestern town that is ...


The Future Stages Festival will take place on June 15, 2025, at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, showcasing Kansas City's diverse youth talent ...

Annie
Annie
6/27 - 6/29/2025


Come see Gladstone Theatre in the Park's production of Annie at 8:30 pm June 27-29 at Oak Grove Park! Based on the popular comic strip ...

Big Fish
Big Fish
6/20 - 6/29/2025


Based on the celebrated novel by Daniel Wallace and the acclaimed film directed by Tim Burton, Big Fish tells the story of Edward Bloom, a traveling salesman ...

ROCK OF AGES
ROCK OF AGES
6/18 - 7/13/2025


ROCK OF AGES JUNE 18 - JULY 13 Written by Chris D'Arienzo ROCK OF AGES is a jukebox musical that tells the story of Drew, ...

The Wiz
7/8 - 7/13/2025


The Tony® Award-winning Best Musical that took the world by storm is back. THE WIZ returns "home" to stages across America in an all-new Broadway ...

The Brightest It's Ever Been
The Brightest It's Ever Been
7/18 - 7/19/2025


  The Brightest It’s Ever Been is a play about anxiety. Playwright Kayli Slayden used her personal experiences to highlight the low-lights of living with ...

Tuck Everlasting
Tuck Everlasting
7/18 - 7/27/2025


What would you do if you had all eternity? Eleven-year-old Winnie Foster yearns for a life of adventure beyond her white picket fence, but not ...

West Side Story
West Side Story
7/5 - 7/27/2025


Saturdays | July 5, 12, 19, 26 at 7:30 p.m. Sundays | July 6, 13, 20, 27 at 2 p.m. Wednesdays | July 9, 16, ...

NUNSENSE
NUNSENSE
6/27 - 8/2/2025


NUNSENSE JUNE 27 - AUGUST 2 Book, music and lyrics written by Dan Goggin NUNSENSE is a habit-forming, riotous musical spoof about the misadventures of ...

Elf the Musical
Elf the Musical
8/1 - 8/3/2025


Join us for Gladstone Theatre in the Park's Elf the Musical at 8:30 pm Aug. 1-3 at Oak Grove Park! A title known the world ...

CLUE: ON STAGE
CLUE: ON STAGE
7/23 - 8/10/2025


CLUE: ON STAGE JULY 23 - AUGUST 10 Based on the book by Jonathan Lynn, Hunter Foster, Sandy Rustin, Eric Price CLUE: ON STAGE is ...


Trespassers Beware! Fort Conley and Wyandot Women Warriors is a commemorative public art project unveiling on August 30, 2025, at the Wyandotte County Historical Museum. ...


The Guest Critic is a part of a three-part series presented by Charlotte Street, bringing national curators to Kansas City for public critiques of local ...


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Latest Kansas City Reviews


Review: DOUBT, A PARABLE at KC United Church Of Christ


by Alan Portner - March 10, 2025

Kansas City Actors Theater presents an exceptional production of DOUBT, A PARABLE by John Patrick Shanley in the unexpected, but perfectly selected sanctuary of the Kansas City United Church of Christ in the Brookside area....

Review: RUMORS at New Theatre Restaurant


by Alan Portner - February 23, 2025

A super cast makes the most of Neil Simon’s 1988 word-salad comedy masterpiece entitled RUMORS. RUMORS opened last week at New Theater Restaurant in Overland Park.   This one is played strictly for laughs. ...

Review: HAIRSPRAY at White Theatre


by Alan Portner - February 04, 2025

HAIRSPRAY, a co-production of the White Theatre and the Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City, is the kind of old-fashioned, joyous, musical theater experience that recalls a PAJAMA GAME, or a DAMN YANKEES, kind of show that is just pure entertainment.  Additionally, HAIRSPRAY has a point to make a...

Review: BOOK OF DAYS at Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre


by Alan Portner - February 01, 2025

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. The play, originally commissioned by Jeff Daniels in 1998 for his own small town (Michigan) theater company,...

Review: PARADE at Kauffman Theatre


by Alan Portner - January 29, 2025

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. Mr. Frank was almost certainly falsely convicted of Ms. Phagan’s April 27, 1913 murder due to an early twentieth century eruption of rampant antise...

Review: CHICAGO: THE MUSICAL at Kauffman Theater


by Alan Portner - January 10, 2025

Chicago, the Musical, now playing at the Kauffman Center for Performing Arts, is a super evening out for you and your significant other.  It is a welcome respite from our incredible snow event last weekend. ...

Review: WHO'S HOLIDAY A CHRISTMAS MASTERPIECE OPENS IN KANSAS CITY at The Ruby Room


by Steve Wilson - December 09, 2024

Ho...Ho...Ho, Cindy Lou Who, that’s who returned to Kansas City on Friday, December 6, in WHO’S HOLIDAY A NEW COMEDY WITH A TWIST OF RHYME. Padgett Productions’ Christmas delight opened on the stage of the Ruby Room inside Crown Center. The Ruby Room is the perfect venue for WHO’S HOLIDAY, as the sh...

Review: FUNNY GIRL at Kansas City Music Hall


by Alan Portner - December 04, 2024

FUNNY GIRL is one of the crown gems of the American Musical Theater. Kansas City audiences will be treated to a first-class production of a show that many theater buffs know about but have never seen. Tuesday night’s performance starred Leah Platt in the lead role of Fanny Brice. Leah has a gangbus...

Review: NUNSENSE at New Theatre Restaurant


by Alan Portner - December 03, 2024

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


by Steve Wilson - December 02, 2024

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. MAXINE’S CHRISTMAS CAROL opened on Friday, November 29, at the City Stage inside Union Station. The musical comedy w...



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