The current national tour of Monty Python's Spamalot opened at Starlight Theatre on Tuesday evening August 4, for a weeklong residency. This is my first exposure to this joyful send-up of all things musical theatre, motion pictures, vaudeville, and puppetry. Can you say” inspired silliness?”…
You will never see a production of “Legally Blond, the musical” better performed or sung or danced than what you can see currently running at New Theatre Restaurant in Overland Park. This is pure, show-biz entertainment as rendered by this cast and Director/ Choreographer Jerry Jay Cranford an…
This joint White Theatre and Coterie production succeeds with dazzling sets, super special effects, the best pit band I have heard in many years, and a cast who seems determined to wring every bit of value out of the playscript and the score that is there.What did our critic think of DISNEY'S FROZEN…
What happens when one of America's greatest songbooks meets Broadway? A BEAUTFIUFL NOISE delivers an emotional portrait of Neil Diamond, led by American Idol winner Nick Fradiani in a production that soars at Kansas City's Starlight Theatre.…
The show I saw last week on Wednesday, July 8, featured three warm-up acts and Ayrn performing under the stage name A.J. Chris. A.J. Chris was the feature comic of the evening. A.J., who has already had significant success in the UK, had warned me that she had come home to try out a new routine i…
It is not often that Kansas City audiences get the chance to see the “World Premiere” engagement of a new comedy from an award-winning Broadway performer and playwright. This month Unicorn Theatre presents “Don’t Touch My Hair,” by Douglas Lyons.…
Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s THE WIZARD OF OZ does not attempt to recreate nostalgia in its simplest form. Instead, this production interrogates why the story has endured for generations and reframes it through a distinctly theatrical lens rooted in American folk tradition, musical intimacy, an…
They keep people alive. They keep people moving. And sometimes, they keep people from realizing how impossible their lives have truly become. Lyric Opera of Kansas City’s production of OF MICE AND MEN does not treat John Steinbeck’s story as distant Americana or dusty literary nostalgia.…
The air at New Theatre Restaurant in Overland Park is thick with the scent of high-end buffet favorites and the electric hum of a sold-out crowd. The curtain has risen on a revival of the 1960s Broadway classic Cactus Flower, and if the opening week's standing ovations are any indication, Kansas Ci…
A full auditorium of just over a hundred patrons filed into the newly renovated Warwick Theater for a re-imagination of Stephen King’s “The Shawshank Redemption.” This theatrical adaptation is written by Irish playwrights Owen O’Neill and Dave Johns, an unlikely yet inspired pairing. Both m…
Broke-ology, written by Nathan Louis Jackson, explores the intricacies of family life within a working-class neighborhood in Kansas City, Kansas. This poignant piece delves into...
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Disgraced and author of Kansas City Repertory’s coveted production of The Who & The What comes The Invisible Hand....
Copaken Stage: - David Mamet; dir: Jerry Genochio....
Spencer Theatre: - book: Oscar Hammerstein II; lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II; music: Richard Rodgers; dir: Kyle Hatley....
Copaken Stage: - Sojourn Theatre Company , The TEAM ; dir: Rachel Chavkin, Michael Rohd....
Spencer Theatre: - Arthur Miller; dir: Eric Rosen....
A down-and out skid row floral assistant becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood. Soon...
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'Treasure Island Reimagined: Jane Hawkins and the Pirate's Gold' Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College (4/02-4/03) |
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WICKED Kansas City Music Hall (8/12-8/30) |
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Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Elusive Ear Unicorn Theartre (11/11-11/29) |
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Wicked Music Hall Kansas City (8/12-8/30) |
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'The Who's Tommy' Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College (10/14-10/14) |
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'Burn the Floor presents Maks & Peta Live!' Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College (4/03-4/03) |
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Guns N’ Roses Busch Stadium (8/16-8/16) |
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Anti-Hero: Revenge of the Swifties Unicorn Theartre (12/09-12/27) |
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The Phantom of the Opera Music Hall Kansas City (12/06-12/06) |
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Bryson Tiller Hollywood Casino Amphitheater (10/03-10/03) |
