In this vibrant new adaptation, The Pirates of Penzance heads to New Orleans for a fresh take on the beloved classic. When love and duty send a young pirate into hilariously complicated waters, the result is musical comedy gold. Playful, tuneful, and full of charm, this voyage...
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…
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.…
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…
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Join us for an evening of live music on the outdoor stage for some hot jazz and cool tunes featuring the Patty Ahern Trio, comprised of Patty Ahern on keyboard, Adam Keda on bass, Valance Penn on drums and including special guest guitarist, Sebastian Alfie. Featured vocalists...
Charade (1963) - run time 115 minAudrey Hepburn and Cary Grant sparkle in this film, which has been called by some, 'the best Hitchcock film he never made' and combines the genres of whodunit, screwball comedy, and spy thriller!
Enjoy the thrilling adventures of a Band of Pirates who find themselves up the Kaw looking for treasure. Expect a kidnapping, mayhem, a plank, romance, comedy and a swordfight all visible onstage from your car. Written by Ric & Jeanne Averill. Directed by Ric Averill. Space is...
Carnival of Souls (1962) - run time 84 minutesJoin us on the Summer So(u)lstice and celebrate Father's Day with a nostalgic return to the drive-in theatre! Filmed in Lawrence and in Salt Lake City, this cult classic features a woman who becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned...
Teenagers From Outer Space (1959) run time 86 minutesWith Live On-Stage Comedic Commentary featuring Local Comedians:Ric Averill, Will Averill, Larry Keezer, and Kitty SteffensA young alien and a teenage earthling fall in love, and plot to stop the aliens race from using Earth...
In the early 1900s, women working at the Harvard Observatory werent allowed to touch a telescope, and projects were calculated in girl hours. This beautiful story of scientist, Henrietta Leavitt, explores social and scientific progress in our search to understand the Heavens and...
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