Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
1601 Broadway Blvd
Kansas City, MO 64108
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts is a theatre in Kansas City.
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Review: JOHN PROCTOR IS A VILLAIN at Kansas City Repertory Theatre
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It is fitting that a play about questioning the stories we inherit has a story of its own worth revisiting. Kimberly Belflower’s John Proctor Is the Villain, now being presented by Kansas City Repertory Theatre at the downtown Copaken Stage, has so far traveled a remarkable…
Review: BEETLEJUICE THE MUSICAL at Starlight Theatre
How appropriate is it that the musical version of “Beetlejuice” should materialize at Starlight Theatre on the cusp of the Halloween and just before of the Mexican “Day of the Dead?” Our Starlight audience loved it! Beetlejuice is a show that screams for “Dad” jokes or other …
Review: THE HALLELUJAH GIRLS at New Theatre & Restaurant
If laughter is truly the best medicine, the women of Eden Falls, Georgia, have opened exactly the right kind of health spa. “The Hallelujah Girls,” is a fast-moving Southern comedy by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten. The play is an affectionate, fast-moving celebration of friends…
Review: EUREKA DAY at City Stage
It had taken me a day or two to absorb Jonathan Spector’s Eureka Day both well-acted and well-produced by Kansas City Actor’s Theatre in the City Theatre space of Union Station. Cleverly cloaked in comedy, this 2025 Tony Award Winner strikes a deeply held cultural belief from playwright Jonath…
Review: DISNEY'S NEWSIES at Starlight Theater
Disney’s Newsies does not merely seize the day. It dances on it, vaults over it and occasionally executes a backflip before the day knows what struck it. It takes an 1899 historical event as a jumping off place and imagines the history as it might have been retold in a 1930’s Busby Berkeley movi…
Review: KC Rep's COME FROM AWAY at Spencer Theatre
Kansas City Repertory Theater’s new production of “Come From Away” is top notch in every possible way. “Come From Away” is about how one remote Canadian town rallied in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on America to embrace neighbors they could not have imagined th…
Review: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR at Music Theatre Heritage
A contemporary rock opera reimagines a familiar biblical story as a thrilling exploration of faith, fame, loyalty, doubt, and political power—proving this timeless tale still resonates with urgent relevance today.…
Review: THE SHARK IS BROKEN at The Warwick Theatre
“The Shark Is Broken” is a fascinating invite into a hidden world that informs us how the sausage gets made when it comes to mega-hit films. This play snickers as three famous actors suffer “slings and arrows” while Bruce, a damned mechanical shark, turns turtle repeatedly during filming “…
Review: WICKED at Kansas City Music Hall
Musical theater reviewers infrequently and pleasantly rediscover an old friend. “Wicked,” just opened at the venerable, 2400 seat Kansas City Music Hall with a recently refreshed cast, is an entertaining example.…
Review: INTIMATE APPAREL at Kansas City Actors' Theatre
The year is 1905. The place is New York City. The play is Lynn Nottage’s intimate and surprisingly affective comedy/drama “Intimate Apparel.” “Intimate Apparel” tells a tale drawn from Nottage’s own passed down ancestry stories and perhaps a little imagined history. The inspiration i…
Past Shows
56 total · showing 41–50
Youth Symphony joins the Kansas City Symphony
The Kansas City Symphony and Youth Symphony of Kansas City will present a free side-by-side performance in Helzberg Hall on Tuesday, June 11 at 7 p.m. Side-by-side performances give students an opportunity to play with professional musicians, and it is a great experience for all...
Season Finale: Strauss' Alpine Symphony
The season closes with two genuine masterpieces – Mozart’s sprightly Symphony No. 40 in G minor, a work deeply admired by Richard Strauss, and Strauss’ monumental An Alpine Symphony, a composition of scope and grandeur worthy of the Alps themselves. Having established himself as...
Schubert's Ninth and Gil Shaham
The great violinist Gil Shaham returns to the stage to perform Alban Berg’s haunting Violin Concerto, dedicated “to the memory of an angel.” In keeping with that sentiment, the concert opens with Carl Ruggles’ Angels for muted brass. Franz Schubert’s magnificent Ninth Symphony...
Chelsea Chen
Organist and composer Chelsea Chen (b. 1983) is internationally renowned and is one of the most promising organists of her generation. Chelsea Chen has electrified audiences throughout the United States, Europe, Australia, and Asia in venues such as Singapore’s Esplanade, Hong...
Mahler, Mozart & Brahms
Conductor and pianist Asher Fisch presents a buffet of works by three composers with Viennese connections. Gustav Mahler’s Blumine, the gorgeous “extra” movement for his First Symphony, opens the program. Maestro Fisch performs as soloist and conductor for Mozart’s Piano...
Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán
The first incarnation of the group Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán began in 1898 as a quartet, and over the decades (and into the 21st century) the ensemble would become one of the most important in Mexican music history. For five generations Mariachi Vargas has endured as the...
Kobie Boykins
An engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and an inspiring advocate for space exploration, Kobie Boykins helped design the solar panels that powered the Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, for long past their expected life spans. He worked on the Mars Science...
Hey-Hay, Going to Kansas City
Groundbreaking African-American choreographer Donald McKayle presents Hey-Hay, Going to Kansas City. A celebration of the golden age of jazz, the ballet pays tribute to the era of nightclubs and dance halls when Kansas City was considered the ‘Paris of the Plains.’ Experience...
Restless Heart
The melodic country band of the 80’s and 90’s returns to Kansas City, to debut their all-new symphony tour! Having charted 26 country and light rock hits, Restless Heart’s amazing harmony is better than ever on “When She Cries”, “I’ll Still Be Loving You”, “Tell Me What You...
Bailar Toda La Noche
The sensuous rhythms of Latin dance and jazz fill this light and lively chamber orchestra program. Your evening begins with a curious and playful tone poem by Adam Schoenberg, KCS composer-in-residence, followed by Bernstein’s jazzy Riffs featuring Raymond Santos, KC Symphony...
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The Last 5 Years Phoenix Arts KC (10/16-10/24) |
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Come From Away Olathe Civic Theatre Assn (OCTA) (6/04-6/20) |
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Emilie: La Marquise Du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight Olathe Civic Theatre Assn (OCTA) (2/05-2/21) |
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