With the onset of winter, snow-covered streets, no sunshine and freezing temperatures, Kansas City can become depressing. Fortunately for Kansas City audiences, the snow-covered hills are filled with THE SOUND OF MUSIC. The hit Rogers and Hammerstein's musical opened Tuesday, January 15th at Kauff... (more...)
The Theatre in the Park Winter Academy presented ZOMBIE PROM, for a limited engagement on Friday, December 28 and Saturday, December 29. The performance would best be described as fabulous, hilarious and one of the most professional young performer musicals to have appeared in Kansas City. Unfortu... (more...)
Remember turning off the lights and not answering the door when the men in white shirts and a tie rang the doorbell wanting to give you that free book and tell you about their religion. No need to shut off the lights and run and hide when these men appear at the Music Hall. Yes, they do want to sp... (more...)
They filled the stage at Unity Village Auditorium with singers and the air with holiday music in the best barbershop style. The event was the 2018 Holiday Harmony Spectacular staged on December 1 for a packed house of over 1500. Combined choruses of the Kansas City Chorus of Sweet Adelines Internati... (more...)
Now unfolding at New Theatre Restaurant in Overland Park is America's longest-running, non-musical, audience-involved, parody, murder-mystery play entitled “Shear Madness.” This show is deliberately beyond silly and peculiarly tailored to tickle local funny bones.... (more...)
Musical Theatre Heritage's annual Christmas Spectacular opened the weekend of December 7th for a run through December 23rd at the MTH Theater on the third floor of Crown Center in downtown Kansas City. An eight-person cast along with a four-piece orchestra combines traditional popular Holiday music... (more...)
THE HAPPY ELF is filled with elves, Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus and a town where everyone is the naughty list and Christmas is forbidden. These are just some of the things that face Eubie, the happiest elf at the North Pole. THE HAPPY ELF is featured at the Black Box Theatre, located in the Johnson Cou... (more...)
Create your own holiday tradition by sharing this classic with friends and family. This show will vanquish your inner Grinch, Scrooge, and Potter as you leave humming Auld Lang Syne! It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play performs at the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre in the Warwick Theatre, Kansa... (more...)
The call of the wild is an indoor soccer team made up of eleventh grade girls in THE WOLVES, now showing at the Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City. Directed by Heidi Van, THE WOLVES is a glimpse into the minds and lives of a diverse group of girls from varied ethnic and social backgrounds.... (more...)
Exciting and current, Harvey Williams' play 'On Shoulders Now' takes a fresh look at the power of friendship and compassion during the season that inspires it.... (more...)
If CHRISTMAS IN SONG at Quality Hill Playhouse does not get you in the holiday spirit, then you are either the Grinch or Ebenezer Scrooge. Directed by J. Kent Barnhart and with Barnhart at the piano Lauren Bradshaw, Brad Dawby and Lindsey McKee celebrate the Christmas season with performances throu... (more...)
Now in its 38th season, Kansas City Repertory Theatre's "A Christmas Carol" is as much an iconic Kansas City holiday tradition as is the annual Plaza lighting ceremony every Thanksgiving evening. Charles Dickens (Mark Robbins) once again spins his immortal 1843 ghost story of redemption as he himse... (more...)
Naked Magicians perform at Starlight Theatre indoors. That pretty much sums up the two Australian illusionists' adult comedy/prestidigitation ac... (more...)
Audiences at 'School Of Rock, The Musical' (now playing at the Kansas City Music Hall) are in for an evening of fun. This production is pure entertainment highlighted by a dozen songs from the reigning King of musical theater, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber. 'School Of Rock' onstage offers a lot to admir... (more...)
Barn Players turn up the volume and rolls out the '80's music with their current production of "Rock of Ages." The musical, directed by Eric Magnus, features songs from Journey, Styx,, Bon Jovi, Pat Benatar, Steve Perry, Twisted Sister, Poison, etc... Rock Of Ages at Arts Asylum Kansas City by Barn ... (more...)
Rediscover RUDOLPH The Red-Nosed Reindeer, the Musical, now on stage at the Coterie Theatre in Kansas City. Relive the nostalgia of childhood while introducing a new generation to one of the most joyous stories of the season with the rambunctious return of Rudolph. PARENTS: turn off the tv/computer ... (more...)
Now playing at the White Theatre inside the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park is their community theater production of Lerner and Loewe's 1960 classic 'Camelot.' Featuring a hidden away orchestra of twenty-three and a cast of seventeen 'Camelot,' is always a challenging project.... (more...)
Lyric Opera's 'Madama Butterfly' as performed on the stage of the Muriel Kauffman Theater is extraordinary. Puccini's music remains transcendent even after one hundred fourteen years.... (more...)
'The Nance' brings 1930's NYC life to vibrant life at the Spinning Tree Theatre in Kansas City. Perfectly cast with a standout ensemble this bawdy comedy (with some musical treats) is an absolute knockout performance. Definitely in the 'not to be missed' category, treat yourself to this fabulous s... (more...)
Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II touched off an earthquake in Musical Theater with their 1927 musicalized version of Edna Ferber's 'Show Boat.' A new iteration of 'Show Boat' has shoved off from the dock inside the MTH Theater on the third level of Crown Center for what will be pleased audience... (more...)
Horton Foote's 'Orphans' Home Cycle' is a monumental project for any theatre company. Kansas City's Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre should be recognized for taking it on. It is the first time any company has attempted Foote's Opus since its short Broadway run ending in early 2010. ... (more...)
'Of Mice and Men' transports us to Steinbeck's world on the Monterey Peninsula of California during the Great Depression prior to World War II. It was (and still is) mainly an agricultural breadbasket area.
As the play opens, two of these men approach a ranch in Soledad California. They are Ge... (more...)
Powerful story, top notch stagecraft, and excellent acting make the Unicorn production of 'Sweat' by Lynn Nottage a must see before you cast your ballot on November 6. 'Sweat' begins to explain divisions in the 2018 electorate and how they developed. The Pulitzer committee agreed and awarded this ... (more...)
BWW Review: THE SOUND OF MUSIC Opens at the Kauffman Center For Performing Arts in Kansas City
BWW Review: Hilarious Production of ZOMBIE PROM From Theatre in the Park
BWW Review: THE BOOK OF MORMON a Raucous Romp Through Religion Opens at the Music Hall
BWW Review: 2018 HOLIDAY HARMONY SPECTACULAR at Unity Village MO
BWW Review: ALL IS CALM at Music Theatre Kansas City
BWW Review: SHEAR MADNESS at New Theatre Restaurant
BWW Review: A SPECTACULAR CHRISTMAS SHOW 2018 at Musical Theater Heritage
BWW Review: THE HAPPY ELF Can Cure Your Christmas Blues at Theatre In The Park
BWW Review: IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY at Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre At The Warwick
BWW Review: THE WOLVES is a howling success at the Unicorn at the Unicorn Theatre IN KANSAS CITY
BWW Review: ON SHOULDERS NOW at Just Off Broadway Theatre
BWW Review: THE NUTCRACKER at KC Ballet
BWW Review: Begin a Quality Holiday Season with CHRISTMAS IN SONG at Quality Hill Playhouse
BWW Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL at Kansas City Repertory Theatre
BWW Review: THE NAKED MAGICIANS at Starlight Theatre
BWW Review: SCHOOL OF ROCK at Theater League
BWW Review: ROCK OF AGES at Barn Players At The Arts Asylum
BWW Review: RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER: THE MUSICAL at Coterie Theatre In Crown Center
BWW Review: CAMELOT at White Theatre
BWW Review: MADAMA BUTTERFLY at Lyric Opera Of Kansas City
BWW Review: THE NANCE at Spinning Tree Theatre
BWW Review: SHOW BOAT at Musical Theater Heritage
BWW Review: THE ORPHANS' HOME CYCLE at Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre
BWW Review: OF MICE AND MEN at Kansas City Repertory Theatre
BWW Review: SWEAT at Unicorn Theatre
