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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A comedy by Paul Rudnick A young and successful television actor relocates to New York where he is offered the opportunity to play Hamlet onstage. The problem: He Hates Hamlet . His dilemma deepens with the entrance of John Barrymore’s ghost, who arrives intoxicated and in full...
An announcement in the local paper states the time and place of an imminent murder. When an unknown visitor to Miss Blacklock’s Victorian home dies under the prescribed circumstances, Miss Marple turns up to solve the case in a classic Christie puzzle of mixed motives, concealed...
A dramatic comedy by Sarah Ruhl An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man – with a lot of loose ends. `A wildly imaginative new story about how we memorialize the dead – and how that remembering changes us...
Lawrence Opera Theatre is thrilled to share its fourteenth season with the Lawrence community! Opera is fundamentally a genre of emotional storytelling. It speaks to the core of the human condition and our shared experiences as emotive beings. The intersection of voice, music...
Lawrence Opera Theatre is thrilled to share its fourteenth season with the Lawrence community! Opera is fundamentally a genre of emotional storytelling. It speaks to the core of the human condition and our shared experiences as emotive beings. The intersection of voice, music...
Lawrence Opera Theatre is thrilled to share its fourteenth season with the Lawrence community! Opera is fundamentally a genre of emotional storytelling. It speaks to the core of the human condition and our shared experiences as emotive beings. The intersection of voice, music...
Two brothers set out to write the world’s first musical in this hilarious mash-up of sixteenth-century Shakespeare and twenty-first-century Broadway. Welcome to the Renaissance and the outrageous crowd-pleasing show that has been hailed as the funniest musical in 400 years.
The timeless enchantment of a magical fairy tale is reborn with the Rodgers & Hammerstein hallmarks of originality, charm and elegance. Studded with memorable music like “My own Little Corner,” “The Stepsisters’ Lament” and “Ten Minutes Ago”, this will be a holiday treat for the...
Book, Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott Based on the Latent Image/Specific Films Motion PictureThis heartwarming, uplifting adventure in drag takes three friends to the Australian outback. Aboard a battered old bus (nicknamed Priscilla) they search for love and friendship and end...
Book by Michael Stewart | Music and Lyrics by Jerry HermanThis blockbuster Broadway hit bursts with humor, romance, and some of the greatest songs in musical theater history. The exploits of Dolly Gallagher-Levi, turn-of-the-century matchmaker and woman who arranges things, will...
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TBC Truck, Trailer Repair & Diesel Performance TBC Truck, Trailer Repair & Diesel Performance (5/01-12/01) |
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The Ritz Unicorn Theartre (8/12-8/30) |
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SIX (Boleyn Tour) Kansas City Music Hall (1/26-1/31) |
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Jefferson Starship Capital Region MU Health Care Amphitheater (9/27-9/27) |
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Pirates! The Penzance Musical Theatre Lawrence (9/11-9/20) |
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Wicked Music Hall Kansas City (8/12-8/30) |
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Job Unicorn Theartre (2/03-2/14) |
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American Psycho Olathe Civic Theatre Assn (OCTA) (9/04-9/20) |
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JOB New Jewish Theatre (NJT) (8/06-8/23) |
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Wicked Kansas City Music Hall (8/22-8/22) |
