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 31–40
Symphonie fantastique, with Chopin
Hailed by the BBC for his “incredibly moving” and “daring and creative” performances, pianist Andrew Tyson makes his KCS debut with his interpretation of Chopin. In a stark contrast to the first half of the program, guest conductor Jun Märkl brings a fresh interpretation of...
Mozart’s “Paris,” Plus Fauré’s Requiem
Escape the fall chill and settle into the beautiful Helzberg Hall for this soul-warming program. Sample French Baroque opera in Rameau’s engaging Suite from Dardanus, and hear a surge of bright colors and vitality in Mozart’s famous “Paris” Symphony. The Symphony Chorus and...
The Magic Flute
Mozart’s genius is supremely evident in his last opera, The Magic Flute. The deceptively simple fairytale story is matched with some of the most stunningly beautiful music ever written. From the coloratura pyrotechnics of the Queen of the Night’s arias, to the lyrical anguish of...
Second Piano Concerto, Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet
This program is a melting pot of rich, emotion-evoking music. Rediscover the beauty of Saint-Saëns’ Second Piano Concerto with the electrifying Behzod Abduraimov, compared by the London press to the legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz and current sensation Lang Lang. Then, let...
Symphonic Poetry: Tchaikovsky and Liszt
Discover Tchaikovsky’s lesser-known classical gem as Alon Goldstein, one of the most original and sensitive artists of his generation, performs the brilliant Piano Concerto No. 2. Franz Liszt was a spectacular international classical superstar who used literature as the...
Symphonic Dances, Plus Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto
Celebrate opening weekend of another fantastic season at the Kauffman Center with a fast-paced program, all in the impeccable acoustics of Helzberg Hall. Captivating, young violinist Stefan Jackiw is described by the Chicago Tribune as “… a legend in the making. He has flawless...
The Capulets & the Montagues
The theme of forbidden love is, indeed, timeless, and Verona's doomed lovers have inspired plays, novels and movies, as well as ballets and operas, for centuries. Based on renaissance legend (rather than Shakespeare's play), a longstanding political feud drives the drama in...
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...
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The Last 5 Years Phoenix Arts KC (10/16-10/24) |
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Job Unicorn Theartre (2/03-2/14) |
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Ryan & Ryan 'Kickin' the Clouds Away' Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College (10/25-10/25) |
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Suffs Unicorn Theartre (6/02-6/20) |
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Come From Away Music Theatre Kansas City (4/09-4/18) |
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The Last Five Years Music Theatre Kansas City (11/07-11/09) |
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White Christmas Helzberg Hall (12/07-12/07) |
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Actors From The London Stage 'King Lear' Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College (3/25-3/26) |
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Don’t Talk To The Actors Olathe Civic Theatre Assn (OCTA) (4/09-4/25) |
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'Outlander in Concert' Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College (10/23-10/23) |
