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The Secrets of Space
Mar 6 · Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College, Overland Park
Suni and Mae are dreamers. As young girls, they dreamt about journeying far beyond our solar system, singing among the stars, and discovering all that...
Lipstick
Feb 12 – Feb 22, 2026 · Whim Space, Kansas City
Lipstick by Lane Michael StanleyBuckle up for a wacky, breakneck farce with a rotating door of queer characters and seemingly endless sex toys. Balancing tongue-in-cheek...
Rent
Jan 31 – Feb 22, 2026 · The White Theatre at The J, Overland Park
2025-2026 Theatre SeriesCo-produced with KC Melting Pot TheatreSet in the East Village of New York City, "Rent" is about falling in love, finding your voice, and living...
The Fantasticks
Feb 5 – Feb 22, 2026 · Music Theater Heritage, Kansas City
Bursting with charm, wit, and unforgettable music, The Fantasticks is a magical celebration of love and adventure.
A Night on Broadway
Feb 28 · Lawrence Opera Theatre, Lawrence
Lawrence Opera Theatre invites you to an unforgettable evening of music, glamour, and community at our annual fundraising gala!Step into the spotlight and enjoy show-stopping...
HAMILTON
Feb 18 – Mar 1, 2026 · Music Hall, Kansas City
A revolutionary story of passion, unstoppable ambition, and the dawn of a new nation.HAMILTON is the epic saga that follows the rise of Founding Father...
Hamilton (Angelica Company)
Feb 17 – Mar 1, 2026 · Kansas City Music Hall, Kansas City
HAMILTON is the story of America's Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, an immigrant from the West Indies who became George Washington's right-hand man during the Revolutionary...
Lost Boys: : The Unauthorized, Pre-Broadway, Not Broadway, Regional Premiere, Presumably Professional, Jukebox Parody, Musical Performance
Feb 20 – Mar 1, 2026 · The Arts Asylum, Kansas City
Mike and Sam just moved to town and they’re already sick of all the damn vampires. So sick that they must enlist the help of...
Outside Mullingar
Feb 27 – Mar 8, 2026 · Florissant Performing Arts Center, Florissant
OUTSIDE MULLINGARBy John Patrick ShanleyFrom the Academy Award-winning writer of Moonstruck and Doubt comes Outside Mullingar, a charming and funny romantic comedy set in the misty heart of rural Ireland. Often described...
Outside Mullingar
Feb 27 – Mar 8, 2026 · Florissant Performing Arts Center, Florissant
OUTSIDE MULLINGARBy John Patrick ShanleyFrom the Academy Award-winning writer of Moonstruck and Doubt comes Outside Mullingar, a charming and funny romantic comedy set in the misty heart of rural Ireland. Often described...
Silent Sky
Feb 27 – Mar 8, 2026 · Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre, Kansas City
Silent Sky tells the true story of Henrietta Leavitt, an astronomer ahead of her time. It is 1900, and Henrietta has the opportunity to work...
The Gershwins®’ Porgy and Bess
Feb 28 – Mar 8, 2026 · Lyric Opera of Kansas City
Porgy and Bess, presented by the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, captures the essence of a Black community in Charleston, South Carolina, during the early...
Albert Lin, Explorer: In Search of Lost Cities
Albert Lin is a professional explorer who merges human insight with technological innovation on a quest to uncover lost cities and cultural narratives. Following a...
Silent Sky
Mar 6 – Mar 15, 2026 · The Warwick, Kansas City
Henrietta is nearly deaf, but the songs of the stars make beautiful music in her mind.SILENT SKY tells the true story of Henrietta Leavitt, an...
Long Time Since Yesterday
Mar 12 – Mar 21, 2026 · Just Off Broadway Theatre, Kansas City
When a group of old friends reunite for the funeral of their brilliant but troubled friend, Janet, grief unearths long-buried truths. Ex-lovers, former rivals, and...
The Cottage
Mar 13 – Mar 22, 2026 · Theatre Lawrence, Lawrence
A riotous romantic farce in the spirit of Noël Coward, The Cottage delivers mistaken identities, scandalous secrets, and nonstop hilarity. When lovers Sylvia and Beau escape to...
THE GREAT GATSBY
Mar 17 – Mar 22, 2026 · Music Hall, Kansas City
THE PARTY’S ROARING IN KANSAS CITY! THE GREAT GATSBY is a “Broadway extravaganza that explodes with life and energy” (Entertainment Weekly). Based on the classic American...
Swan Lake: International Ballet Stars in Springfield, MO! On March 24, 2026
Mar 24 · Juanita K. Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts, Springfield
Timeless. Majestic. Unforgettable.This production features all-new, hand-painted sets and over 200 custom-designed scenery elements, transforming the stage into a dreamlike landscape. With world-renown ballet artists...
The Sleeping Beauty: International Ballet Stars in Kansas City, MO!
Mar 25 · Kansas City Music Hall, Kansas City
Believe in magic again.Follow the journey of Princess Aurora – from her christening and the wicked curse of Carabosse to a century-long slumber and her...
The Play That Goes Wrong
Mar 14 – Mar 29, 2026 · The White Theatre at The J, Overland Park
2025-2026 Theatre SeriesThis Olivier Award-winning comedy is a hilarious hybrid of Monty Python and Sherlock Holmes. Welcome to opening night of The Murder at Haversham Manor where...
Trojan Women MCI
Mar 11 – Mar 29, 2026 · Unicorn Theartre, Kansas City
Not far from here, four women are held captive, forced to work with no escape. Among them, Cassandra silently waits, painting her nails and plotting...
"The Ugly Duckling"
Apr 9 · Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College, Overland Park
Lightwire Theater brings a classic tale to the modern stage in an unforgettable theatrical experience.Lined with electroluminescent wire, the beloved story of “The Ugly Duckling”...
My Brain Hurts
Apr 10 – Apr 11, 2026 · Blue Valley West Theatre, Overland Park
Stereophonic
Apr 7 – Apr 12, 2026 · Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts [Muriel Kauffman Theatre], Kansas City
David Adjmi’s Stereophonic zooms in on a music studio in the mid-1970s, where an up-and-coming rock band recording a new album finds itself suddenly on...
STEREOPHONIC
Apr 7 – Apr 12, 2026 · Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas City
The most Tony Award-winning Show of the year. The most Tony Award-nominated Play of all time. STEREOPHONIC mines theagony andtheecstasy ofcreation asit zoomsin onamusicstudio in1976....
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Latest Kansas City Reviews
Review: THE FANTASTICKS at Music Theater Heritage
by Alan Portner - February 08, 2026
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. It is called “The Fantasticks.”
If “Fantasticks” is new to you, you are past due for a treat. If you are one of the thousands of p...
Review: RENT at White Theatre At The J
by Alan Portner - February 03, 2026
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...
BWW Review: THE DRUM CLOSET at The Coterie Theatre
by Andrew Burrill - February 03, 2026
The Drum Closet is a deeply spiritual, urgent, and profoundly human coming-of-age story that resonates far beyond its Midwestern high school setting....
BWW Review: CASEY AND DIANA at Unicorn Theatre
by Andrew Burrill - February 03, 2026
Casey and Diana, now running January 28 through February 15, 2026, is a luminous, heartbreaking, and deeply necessary work of theatre. Written by Nick Green and originally commissioned by the Stratford Festival of Canada, the play was developed to honor the real-life visit of Diana, Princess of Wale...
Review: KIMBERLY AKIMBO at Kauffman Center
by Alan Portner - January 22, 2026
“Kimberly Akimbo” is a tiny, idiosyncratic musical with a cast of only nine actors that somehow manages to share the full Broadway experience with its opening night audience at Kansas City’s Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.
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