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Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre is a theatre in Kansas City.
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
“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 “…
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.…
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…
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?”…
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Movie star Caroline has it all: looks, fame, and a clear shot at superstardom. With pregnancy, though, her carefully crafted life gets torn apart as her body changes to grow a new life. The real and surreal blend together as Caroline grapples with her inner demons and fights for...
Isabella is a sensible, hard-working, God-fearing peasant woman whose faith is upended as she deals with the baffling journey of her odd and extraordinary daughter, Joan of Arc. A riveting, epic tale about parenting, faith, and trying to talk to your kids when they talk to...
An intimate and touching show, featuring music by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof) and book by Joe Masteroff (Cabaret), She Loves Me was nominated for five Tony Awards in 1964. The 1993 Broadway revival won the Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival, the...
Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winner 2001 Tony Award for Best PlayCatherine has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable mathematician father. now, following his death, she must deal with the most difficult problem of all: How much of her father's...
Scott Cox is BACK at the Warwick Theatre for THREE SHOWS ONLY with his one-man show, AND GOD DID SHAKE THE PEAR: SHAKESPEARE FOR EVERYDAY LIVING!Dr. Scott Cox, founder and director of Living Shakespeare, a rehabilitative theatre program at Lansing Correctional Facility, believes...
Join us for a night of Irish ghost stories staged in the Warwick Lobby! Seating is limited, so get your tickets today! Call 816-569-3226 or visit metkc.org/onstage The Weir by Conor McPherson In a bar in rural Ireland, the local men swap spooky stories in an attempt to impress a...
Publicly accused of sodomy, renowned writer Oscar Wilde comes under legal scrutiny as a perpetrator of the love that dare not speak its name. Drawing on historic source material, GROSS INDECENCY explores the moment that broke the greatest dramatist of the Victorian era."A...
Based on the novella by Stephen King, this adaptation of The Shawshank Redemption hearkens to the 1994 critically acclaimed film, bringing audiences to the edge of their seats. Andy Dufresne is convicted of the murder of his wife and her lover and sentenced to life imprisonment...
The Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre presents one of August Wilsons rarely produced masterpieces, Seven Guitars, the 1940s installment of his Pittsburgh Cycle, February 21-March 10 at the Warwick Theatre. Wilson weaves the stories of seven African-Americans living off what they can...
The Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre presents Tom Stoppards translation of Anton Chekhovs theatrical masterpiece The Cherry Orchard at the Warwick Theatre January 17-27. Chekhovs classic focuses on a fading upper-class family returning home after years abroad who are forced to face...
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'The Who's Tommy' Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College (10/14-10/14) |
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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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Anti-Hero: Revenge of the Swifties Unicorn Theartre (12/09-12/27) |
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Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Elusive Ear Unicorn Theartre (11/11-11/29) |
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Owen/Cox Dance Group 'The Nutcracker and the Mouse King' Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College (12/10-12/13) |
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'The Billy Joel Legacy' Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College (10/11-10/11) |
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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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Don’t Talk To The Actors Olathe Civic Theatre Assn (OCTA) (4/09-4/25) |
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Yamato Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College (3/27-3/27) |
