Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
1601 Broadway BlvdKansas City, MO 64108
Upcoming Shows
My Hero Academia In Concert
My Hero Academia In Concert comes to the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts on October 6, 2026. The event brings the beloved anime series to life through a live orchestral performance, combining the iconic music of the series with visuals from the show. This concert...
The Wizard of Oz
Septime Webre's dazzling journey to the Emerald City follows Dorothy and Toto as they join three unexpected friends on a magical adventure to meet the Wizard, outwit a Wicked Witch, and find their way home. The production features music by Matthew Pierce performed live by the...
The Nutcracker
A cherished Kansas City holiday tradition, choreographed by Devon Carney with music by Peter I. Tchaikovsky performed live by the Kansas City Symphony. Based on E.T.A. Hoffmann's timeless tale, it follows Clara, the Nutcracker Prince, Dr. Drosselmeier, and the Sugar Plum Fairy...
Romeo & Juliet
William Shakespeare's timeless romantic tragedy comes to life in this ballet choreographed by Devon Carney with music by Sergei Prokofiev, performed live by the Kansas City Symphony. Carney presents his powerful interpretation of the classic tale, featuring soaring choreography...
PULSE
A bold triple bill curated by Artistic Director Devon Carney, tracing ballet's past, present, and future with music performed live by the Kansas City Symphony. George Balanchine's The Four Temperaments explores human nature through striking modernist choreography set to Paul...
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…
Review: SPAMALOT at Starlight Theatre
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?”…
Review: LEGALLY BLOND, THE MUSICAL at New Theatre Restauant
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…
Review: DISNEY'S FROZEN at White Theatre
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…
Review: A BEAUTIFUL NOISE Brings the Heart of Neil Diamond to Life at KC's Starlight Theatre
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.…
Review: A.J. CHRIS COMEDY at Clint's Comedy Club
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…
Review: DON'T TOUCH MY HAIR at Unicorn Theatre
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.…
Past Shows
59 total · showing 41–50
Beethoven Lives Upstairs
Beethoven Lives Upstairs features a lively exchange of letters between young Christoph and his uncle. Their subject is Beethoven, who has moved into the upstairs apartment of Christoph's Vienna home. Through a touching correspondence dramatically underscored with the composer's...
Don't Stop Believin
Revisit the era of power ballads, synth pop and really big hair with “Star Search” grand champion Sam Harris and Grammy®-winning pop princess Sheena Easton. Squeeze into your Jordache jeans and take a tubular trip down memory lane with hits by George Michael, Cyndi Lauper, Bon...
Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson plays
Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson will be performing both his composition THICK AS A BRICK in its entirety for the first time since 1972 and the new album, THICK AS A BRICK 2. Ian Anderson is known as the flute, voice, and composer of the legendary Jethro Tull, which formed in England...
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...
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