“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?”…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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.…
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…
Kansas City’s best vocalists and musicians bring the ultimate live piano party to the stage, celebrating the songs that have shaped generations. Featuring a multi-generational cast, this high-energy concert fuses storytelling, sing-alongs, and show-stopping anthems connecting...
Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is reimagined in 1950s New York City, where two young lovers are caught between rival street groups, the Jets and the Sharks. With its iconic music, powerful storytelling, and decades-long legacy, “West Side Story” remains one of Broadway’s most...
Co-produced with The Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City. The 1950s are out, and change is in the air! “Hairspray,” winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, is a family-friendly musical, piled bouffant-high with laughter, romance and deliriously tuneful songs...
In this new play by Victor Wishna, sixty-something widower Ken clings to his proud but fading Jewish congregation in the tiny town of Wiconee, Iowa; Colombian grad student Marianela, visiting to research her dissertation, represents a burgeoning community of Latin Americans who...
Inspired by true events, “The Prom,” tells the story of a high school student named Emma who is banned from bringing her girlfriend to the school prom. When four Broadway stars hear about Emma’s plight, they put a spotlight on the issue – and themselves – by trying to change the...
Based on the book of Genesis and originating from a cantata written by Andrew Lloyd Webber for a school choir, " Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" is a much-loved family classic. “Joseph” premiered in 1968, receiving six Tony nominations, and features lyrics by Tim...
“Vilna: A Resistance Story” shares the little-known story of the heroic Jewish resistance movement in the Vilna Ghetto during World War II and the Nazi occupation. A musical of heroic resistance and the fight for dignity by Jewish partisans against oppression, “Vilna” will both...
Kansas City Jewish Film Festival starts with new long-weekend format Offering a new twist, the 23rd Kansas City Jewish Film Festival (KCJFF) will be offering three different mini-festival weekends throughout the year beginning with its Winter Warm-Up beginning Thursday, Jan. 5...
This special concert will entice your ears in dance, rich history and excitement. Ladino is the language of Spanish or Portuguese Jews dating as far back as 1492. This concert will feature the Kansas City Premier of composer Ofer Ben Amot's Songs from the Pomegranate Garden with...
With a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elica, and music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa (“The Wild Party,” “You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown”) “The Addams Family” features an original story embracing the wackiness in every family. Daughter Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of...
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New Dance Partners - The Ultimate Collaboration Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College (9/18-9/19) |
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Primary Trust Unicorn Theartre (3/03-3/14) |
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Red Like Fruit Unicorn Theatre (10/14-10/25) |
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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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Take3 'Where Bach Meets Rock' Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College (11/21-11/21) |
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Wicked Music Hall Kansas City (8/12-8/30) |
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'Outlander in Concert' Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College (10/23-10/23) |
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The Lion in Winter Olathe Civic Theatre Assn (OCTA) (10/30-11/15) |
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Suffs Unicorn Theartre (6/02-6/20) |
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The Ritz Unicorn Theartre (8/12-8/30) |
