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Starlight Theatre

4600 Starlight Road, Kansas City, Missouri 64132
Kansas City, MO 64132

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Disney's Newsies

Sep 8

Disney's Newsies is a Tony Award-winning musical based on the hit movie, featuring a cast of Kansas City performers alongside national talent. The production is presented by Starlight in Kansas City, Missouri, with rehearsals beginning in August 2026.

Starlight's 39th Annual Gala

Oct 17

Starlight's 39th Annual Gala is a fundraising celebration event hosted at Starlight Theatre in Kansas City. Two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster will headline the evening.

Review: INTIMATE APPAREL at Kansas City Actors' Theatre

Review: INTIMATE APPAREL at Kansas City Actors' Theatre

by Alan Portner · August 9, 2026

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

Review: SPAMALOT at Starlight Theatre

by Alan Portner · August 5, 2026

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

Review: LEGALLY BLOND, THE MUSICAL at New Theatre Restauant

by Alan Portner · July 19, 2026

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

Review: DISNEY'S FROZEN at White Theatre

by Alan Portner · July 15, 2026

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.J. CHRIS COMEDY at Clint's Comedy Club

Review: A.J. CHRIS COMEDY at Clint's Comedy Club

by Alan Portner · July 13, 2026

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

Review: DON'T TOUCH MY HAIR at Unicorn Theatre

by Alan Portner · May 11, 2026

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.…

BWW Review: THE WIZARD OF OZ at Kansas City Repertory Theatre

BWW Review: THE WIZARD OF OZ at Kansas City Repertory Theatre

by Andrew Burrill · May 11, 2026

Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s THE WIZARD OF OZ does not attempt to recreate nostalgia in its simplest form. Instead, this production interrogates why the story has endured for generations and reframes it through a distinctly theatrical lens rooted in American folk tradition, musical intimacy, an…

BWW Review: OF MICE AND MEN at Kauffman Center For The Performing Arts

BWW Review: OF MICE AND MEN at Kauffman Center For The Performing Arts

by Andrew Burrill · May 6, 2026

They keep people alive. They keep people moving. And sometimes, they keep people from realizing how impossible their lives have truly become. Lyric Opera of Kansas City’s production of OF MICE AND MEN does not treat John Steinbeck’s story as distant Americana or dusty literary nostalgia.…

Review: CACTUS FLOWER at New Theatre Restaurant

Review: CACTUS FLOWER at New Theatre Restaurant

by Alan Portner · May 4, 2026

The air at New Theatre Restaurant in Overland Park is thick with the scent of high-end buffet favorites and the electric hum of a sold-out crowd. The curtain has risen on a revival of the 1960s Broadway classic Cactus Flower, and if the opening week's standing ovations are any indication, Kansas Ci…

Past Shows

12 total · showing 11–12

Widespread Panic

Jun 22

Widespread Panic cut its teeth, like so many of its forebears, on the southern bar circuit, where winning fans and influencing patrons takes a unique combination of musical panache and from-the-gut persistence. John Bell and Michael Houser had spent the better part of five years...

Catch Me If You Can

Jun 11 – Jun 16, 2013

Based on the hit film and the incredible true story that inspired it, Catch Me If You Can is the high-flying, Broadway musical that tells the story of Frank W. Abagnale, Jr., a teenager who runs away from home in search of the glamorous life. With nothing more than his boyish...

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Come From Away in Kansas City Come From Away
Olathe Civic Theatre Assn (OCTA) (6/04-6/20)
Red Like Fruit in Kansas City Red Like Fruit
Unicorn Theatre (10/14-10/25)
SIX (Boleyn Tour) in Kansas City SIX (Boleyn Tour)
Kansas City Music Hall (1/26-1/31)
Guns N’ Roses in Kansas City Guns N’ Roses
Busch Stadium (8/16-8/16)
Wicked in Kansas City Wicked
Kansas City Music Hall (8/22-8/22)
'The Billy Joel Legacy' in Kansas City 'The Billy Joel Legacy'
Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College (10/11-10/11)
Clint Black & Midland in Kansas City Clint Black & Midland
Ozarks Amphitheater (10/10-10/10)
'What Do You Do With a Problem?' in Kansas City 'What Do You Do With a Problem?'
Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College (11/06-11/07)
JOB in Kansas City JOB
New Jewish Theatre (NJT) (8/06-8/23)
Yamato in Kansas City Yamato
Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College (3/27-3/27)