Review: HAMILTON at KC Music Hall
by Alan Portner - February 20, 2026
When the musical juggernaut titled “Hamilton” stormed into Kansas City’s gilded Music Hall this week, it arrives not as a relic of mid-2010s hype, but as a living, breathing re-invention of America’s founding fathers. A decade after its Broadway debut, the touring production proves that the ...
Review: THE FANTASTICKS at Music Theater Heritage
by Alan Portner - February 08, 2026
Now “playing” at Music Theatre Heritage inside Crown Center through February 22 is the latest iteration of the most produced modern musical play in history. It is called “The Fantasticks.”
If “Fantasticks” is new to you, you are past due for a treat. If you are one of the thousands of p...
Review: RENT at White Theatre At The J
by Alan Portner - February 03, 2026
A new production of Jonathan Larson’s 1996 Pulitzer Prize Winner RENT, itself a re-interpretation of Puccini’s “La Boheme,” arrives like a time capsule that refuses to stay shut as a first ever co-production of the White Theatre (inside the Jewish Community Center) and Kansas City’s vener...
BWW Review: THE DRUM CLOSET at The Coterie Theatre
by Andrew Burrill - February 03, 2026
The Drum Closet is a deeply spiritual, urgent, and profoundly human coming-of-age story that resonates far beyond its Midwestern high school setting....
BWW Review: CASEY AND DIANA at Unicorn Theatre
by Andrew Burrill - February 03, 2026
Casey and Diana, now running January 28 through February 15, 2026, is a luminous, heartbreaking, and deeply necessary work of theatre. Written by Nick Green and originally commissioned by the Stratford Festival of Canada, the play was developed to honor the real-life visit of Diana, Princess of Wale...
Review: KIMBERLY AKIMBO at Kauffman Center
by Alan Portner - January 22, 2026
“Kimberly Akimbo” is a tiny, idiosyncratic musical with a cast of only nine actors that somehow manages to share the full Broadway experience with its opening night audience at Kansas City’s Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.
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Past Shows
PIANO PARTY! The Hit Songs of Billy Joel, Lady Gaga, and Chappell Roan
Oct 11 – Oct 12, 2025
A Production of POP Project KCKansas City’s best vocalists and musicians bring the ultimate live piano party to the stage, celebrating the songs that have...
Tree of Life
Sep 14 – Sep 22, 2024
Tree of Life explores the intertwining stories of a small synagogue in Iowa and the Jewish communities both locally and abroad. The play reflects on...
Cabaret
Feb 2 – Feb 17, 2019
It is the city of Berlin in 1931, a time when political unrest racks the country, the economy has been destroyed, and millions of unemployed...
Oy Vey in a Manger
Dec 15
In Oy Vey in a Manger, we find Rachel, Winnie, Trixie, and Trampolina trying to sell off their manger--yes, that manger--before it's foreclosed upon. Crises...
Camelot
Nov 3 – Nov 18, 2018
Borrowing from the Arthurian legends, Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot is the duo’s fantastical masterpiece which triumphed on Broadway in a legendary original production that lead...
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