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Review: HAMILTON at KC Music Hall
by Alan Portner - February 20, 2026
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. A decade after its Broadway debut, the touring production proves that the ...
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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Past Shows
Amazing Grace
Jul 10 – Aug 24, 2014
Amazing Grace is a musical revue full of gospel and spiritual favorites. An evening of entertainment and meaningful music is a treat anytime, but when...
Bob And Bing
May 15 – Jun 22, 2014
Bob and Bing celebrates the music and comedy of two iconic Hollywood stars. Bob Hope & Bing Crosby were great friends and in 1940, they...
Climb Every Mountain
Mar 20 – May 4, 2014
Climb Every Mountain celebrates songs we’ve grown to love from the great Rodgers & Hammerstein. They are thought to have had the most successful partnership...
Always... Patsy Cline
Jan 16 – Mar 2, 2014
Always…Patsy Cline is full of true emotion, down-home country humor and the unforgettable hits of the country music legend. This touching tribute celebrates the career...
Ring Out the Old...Sing in the New!
Dec 27 – Dec 29, 2013
RING OUT THE OLD...SING IN THE NEW! is an end-of the year celebration of the holidays! This joyous musical revue captures the spirit of the...
Dicken Carolers in Concert
Dec 20 – Dec 22, 2013
The voices of the Dickens Carolers have been compared to those of heavenly angels! Treat yourdelf to a special holdiay gift as you relax and...
Forever Plaid
Oct 31 – Dec 15, 2013
Forever Plaid takes you on a nostalgic, musical tour of the 50s with songs like Three Coins In A Fountain, Catch a Falling Star, Love...
America's Veterans
Jul 11 – Aug 25, 2013
Through this musical, AMERICA’S VETERANS, we want to show sincere appreciation to our country’s service men and women. The show will inspire each of us...
With A Bango On My Knee
May 16 – Jun 23, 2013
WITH A BANJO ON MY KNEE intertwines homespun humor with old-time music – bluegrass, country, folk and gospel! You’ll enjoy banjo and guitar pickin’ and...
It's A Small World
Mar 21 – Apr 28, 2013
IT’S A SMALL WORLD features the magical music of Disney. The tribute will feature many of the exciting songs we’ve hummed through the years –...
The Hallelujah Girls
Jan 24 – Mar 3, 2013
THE HALLELUJAH GIRLS welcome us to “Spa-Dee-Dah”! Feisty Sugar Lee Thompkins converts an old run-down church into her very own day spa and invites her...
I'm A Little Bit Country
Dec 27 – Dec 31, 2012
I'M A LITTLE BIT COUNTRY will put a grin on your face & make you tap your feet to the beat! All your favorite country...
Dicken Carolers in Concert
Dec 21 – Dec 22, 2012
The voices of the Dickens Carolers have been compared to those of heavenly angels! Treat yourdelf to a special holdiay gift as you relax and...
How Great Thou Art
Jul 12 – Aug 19, 2012
An inspirational and uplifting show await you with How Great Thou Art! Full of inspirational hymns and gospel favorites, the show will move you to...
And the Oscar Goes To
Mar 29 – Apr 29, 2012
The Chestnut will be ALIVE with the sound of music, as we present A Spoonful of Sugar – A Tribute to the Music of Julie...
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