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Kansas City 64111
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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A humorous and moving portrait of Rosalind Franklin, one of the great female scientists of the twentieth century, and her fervid drive to map the contours of the DNA molecule. A chorus of physicists relives the chase, revealing the unsung achievements of this trail-blazing...
This beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life as a live 1940s radio broadcast. With the help of an ensemble that brings a few dozen characters to the stage, the story of idealistic George Bailey unfolds as he considers ending his life one fateful Christmas Eve.
This beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life as a live 1940s radio broadcast. With the help of an ensemble that brings a few dozen characters to the stage, the story of idealistic George Bailey unfolds as he considers hope and optimism one fateful Christmas...
Comfortably ensconced in his charming Connecticut home, Sidney Bruhl, a successful writer of Broadway thrillers, is struggling to overcome a dry spell. A break in his fortunes occurs when he receives a script from a student from a nearby college—a thriller which Sidney...
Parade by Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown Directed by Karen Paisley Parade tells the heart-wrenching, true story of Leo Frank: a Brooklyn-raised Jewish man living in Atlanta who was wrongfully convicted of the rape and murder of his thirteen-year-old employee, Mary Phagan, in...
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is the story of a Southern family in crisis, especially husband Brick and wife Maggie. They gather at Brick's family estate in Mississippi to celebrate the birthday of patriarch Big Daddy Pollitt and his return from the Ochsner Clinic with what he has been...
The tiny hamlet of Poor Prairie doesn’t see a lot of folks coming into town, least of all men – they’ve all left to find desperately needed work. So when one gets off the train, everybody talks, especially the high school girls looking for a meal ticket. The marryin’ kind. But...
THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH By Thornton Wilder Winner 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Directed by Bob Paisley Meet George and Maggie Antrobus of Excelsior, New Jersey, a suburban, commuter-town couple (married for 5,000 years), who bear more than a casual resemblance to that first...
Passionate. Brilliant. Defiant. Tonight, 18th century scientific genius Emilie du Châtelet is back and determined to answer the question she died with: love or philosophy, head or heart? In this highly theatrical, fast, funny, sexy rediscovery of one of history's most intriguing...
THE NIGHT THOREAU SPENT IN JAIL By Robert E. Lee and Jerome Lawrence Directed by Karen Paisley Produced around the country under the American Playwrights Theatre program, this drama opens with Thoreau in jail for refusing to pay taxes to a government conducting a war of...
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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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Lizzie Theatre Lawrence (10/22-10/24) |
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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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Primary Trust Unicorn Theartre (3/03-3/14) |
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Mutts Gone Nuts - Unleashed Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College (5/08-5/08) |
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'Hold On To Your Butts' Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College (3/12-3/13) |
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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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Emilie: La Marquise Du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight Olathe Civic Theatre Assn (OCTA) (2/05-2/21) |
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Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College (1/22-1/22) |
