by Alan Portner - February 22, 2026
“Elvis and Elton Together” rates a big five stars. Victor Trevino Jr. as Elvis is back and is as good as ever. Sean McGibbben becomes the incredible Elton John. Victor and Sean wisely introduce themselves as tribute artists rather than impersonators....
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 ...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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
Kansas City Actors Theatre presents Dial M for Murder, a psychological thriller directed by Katie Gilchrist and adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from Frederick Knott's original...
This incredible 1938 Victorian thriller, famous for its Academy Award winning adaptation to the big screen, details the dark tale of a marriage based on...
Smart People is a great ride! (Deadline) Written by Lydia R. Diamond, winner of the Lorraine Hansberry Award Winner for Best Writing. Smart People is...
A thoroughly entertaining comedy-drama (The New York Times) From Tony Award Nominated playwright Colman Domingo. Dot chronicles a West Philadelphia family dealing with the matriarchs...
Sometimes we come across a piece of first-person writing that shocks us back into a restorative innocence vis--vis the human heart. (The New York Times)...
Newly translated and adapted by UMKC professor Dr. Felicia Londré as part of the city-wide celebration, “KC MOlière: 400 in 2022,” “The Pests” follows the...
Developed specifically as a world premiere in honor of the Auschwitz exhibit, this emotionally charged theatrical event draws on the diary entries from teenagers who...
Conor McPherson's booze-soaked tale of art, obsession, and the supernatural. Audience-favorite Victor Raider-Wexler (Mornings at Seven, And Then There Were None, The Gin Game) regales...
Jessie feels like a stranger in her own story, and shes ready to end it. Marsha Norman's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama is the story of a...
Athol Fugard's semi-autobiographical, Drama Desk Award-winning Master Harold and the Boys is often regarded as one of the esteemed South African playwrights best works. In...
Nora Helmer fights to save her family and herself from scandal in Henrik Ibsen's classic play that sparked controversy when it was first produced 140...
The four Gibbs sisters have reached their Golden Years, and life should be easy. But its never so when your neighbors are relatives, and with...
Ten suspicious and malicious souls are alone on an island when murder ensues in Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. Considered by many to...
Kansas City Actors Theatre introduces Israel Horovitz, an acclaimed but neglected playwright, with this witty, wise and romantic play. When a failed American novelist inherits...
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