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Unicorn Theatre

3828 Main Street
Kansas City, MO 64111

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Red Like Fruit

Red Like Fruit

Oct 14 – Oct 25, 2026

When memory slips, who controls the truth? Lauren asks Luke to narrate her life—but as he speaks, her sense of self begins to fracture. As the story slips further from her grasp, one question lingers: why did she ask him to tell it at all? Provocative and deeply intimate, Red...

Review: THE SHARK IS BROKEN at The Warwick Theatre

Review: THE SHARK IS BROKEN at The Warwick Theatre

by Alan Portner · August 17, 2026

“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 “…

Review: WICKED at Kansas City Music Hall

Review: WICKED at Kansas City Music Hall

by Alan Portner · August 17, 2026

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.…

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…

Past Shows

African Company presents Richard III

African Company presents Richard III

Apr 17 – Apr 26, 2026

Based on a true story. Forty years before the abolition of slavery, William Henry Brown, a free Black American, organizes a production of Shakespeare’s Richard III under his company, African Grove Theatre. At the same time, the leading producer of New York City, Stephen Price...

Good People

Feb 27 – Mar 24, 2013

The Mainstage: - David Lindsay-Abaire; dir: Mark Robbins.

BlackTop Sky

Jan 23 – Feb 10, 2013

The Jerome Stage: - Christina Anderson; dir: Mykel Hill.

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