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BWW Review: COMPANY at Musical Theater Heritage
by Alan Portner - November 07, 2021

Now through November 21, Musical Theater Heritage offers a super production of “Company,” Stephen Sondheim’s breakthrough 1970 musical. “Company” marks the first appearance of the indelible Sondheim musical voice we have heard so often since. ...

BWW Review: THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES OPENS IN KANSAS CITY AT THE COTERIE THEATRE
by Steve Wilson - November 07, 2021

The Coterie Theatre made a big splash with the opening of its world premiere of THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES on November 4th at The Coterie Theatre located in Crown Center in Kansas City, MO. The new version of THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES has never been seen before and is ...

BWW Review: PIPELINE at Unicorn
by Kelly Luck - October 25, 2021

Unicorn's production of PIPELINE an unflinching look at race, education, and privilege...

BWW Review: CELTS at KC Ballet
by Kelly Luck - October 17, 2021

The KC Ballet's return to the Kauffman center is a high-energy trio of performances...

BWW Review: THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW BURSTS ONTO THE STAGE IN KANSAS CITY at The Black Box
by Steve Wilson - October 11, 2021

Halloween is my favorite time of year, with its ghosts, goblins, haunted houses, and Rocky. The season has been made more extraordinary this year with the opening of THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW at The Black Box, in the historic West Bottoms of Kansas City, MO. Having missed the 2020 season due to the pan...

BWW Review: FOUR CHILDREN at Kansas City Actors' Theatre
by Alan Portner - October 11, 2021

The World Premiere production of “Four Children” has been brought to life by the Kansas City Actors Theatre on the City Stage inside Union Station as a minimalist, sadly shocking view of war against children and on a number of levels. It is not to be missed during its several week run. The playwrig...

BWW Review: MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM at Black Repertory Theatre
by Kelly Luck - October 03, 2021

August Wilson's 'Bottom' packs an impactful and much-needed punch...

BWW Review: GHOST LIGHT at KCRep
by Kelly Luck - October 02, 2021

The KCRep brings back Ghost Light for the second year, with more spooky songs and stories from a variety of KC-area voices...

BWW Review: ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE at Starlight Theatre
by Alan Portner - September 22, 2021

The final, outdoor, Broadway style show for the 2021 season at Starlight Theatre is Jimmy Buffet’s 2018 juke box musical “Escape to Margaritaville.” If you are a certified Jimmy Buffet fan, otherwise known as a Parrott-head, then this fun evening is absolutely for you....

BWW Review: MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL at New Theatre Restaurant
by Alan Portner - September 21, 2021

“Menopause The Musical” has opened with an expected “Hot Flash” for an eight week run at Overland Park’s New Theatre Restaurant. The jokes and song parodies are all gleefully inappropriate. ...

BWW Review: THE COTERIE THEATRE PRESENTS ELECTRIC POE 2021 IN THE BACKDROP OF UNION CEMETERY
by Steve Wilson - September 19, 2021

An early start to the year's creepiest season, Halloween, began on Friday night with the return of The Coterie Theatre’s presentation of ELECTRIC POE 2021. This is the second year of the special engagement at the oldest cemetery in Kansas City, Union Cemetery, and runs through October 31. I describe...

BWW Review: THE BOMB-ITTY OF ERRORS at Fishtank
by Kelly Luck - September 19, 2021

Fishtank Theatre gives a light take on Shakespeare at the Black Box...

BWW Review: COMPANY OPENS AT THE BARN PLAYERS IN KANSAS CITY
by Steve Wilson - September 19, 2021

The Barn Players make a triumphant return to the performing arts scene in Kansas City with their presentation of Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning musical, COMPANY. The conceptual musical directed by Eric Magnus, with musical direction by Michelle Allen McIntire, runs through September 26 at The...

BWW Review: AN EVENING WITH SIERRA BOGGESS at Musical Theater Heritage
by Alan Portner - September 18, 2021

“An evening with Sierra Boggess” at Musical Theater Heritage’s Quixotic Theater is a delightful way to spend any evening. Sierra was Andrew Lloyd Webber’s choice to create the role of Christine in the original production of the “Phantom” sequel “Love Never Dies.” American audiences outside of New ...

BWW Review: LIFESPAN OF A FACT at Unicorn Theatre
by Alan Portner - September 12, 2021

Unicorn Theatre Artistic Director Cynthia Levin enthusiastically welcomed a properly vaccinated, masked, and socially distanced audience to the Levin Theater for the first Covid delayed Unicorn production in eighteen months. The play is a dense, but extremely well performed ninety minute one act en...

BWW Review: MOTHER OF THE MAID at Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre
by Alan Portner - September 10, 2021

Metropolitan Ensemble Theater (MET) has reopened in an improved, more comfortable, and certainly more serviceable Warwick Theater. The building remains a work in progress, but marching toward an ultimate and stylish rebirth. The opening offering is a delightful, soulful, surprising, enjoyable, wel...

BWW Review: ON YOUR FEET at Starlight Kansas City
by Alan Portner - September 08, 2021

It’s exuberant! It’s tuneful! It will make you want to dance! It is “On Your Feet,” the life story of Gloria and Emilio Estefan and their Miami Sound Machine. It is a happy exit from the lockdowns around the Covid-19 pandemic. ...

BWW Review: MARY'S WEDDING at Kansas City Repertory Theatre
by Alan Portner - August 27, 2021

It was their special place; a run-down barn somewhere in a Canadian prairie province. Mary, a UK transplant during the early second decade of the twentieth century, has returned here for a kind of exorcism. “Mary’s Wedding” is the first Kansas City directorial outing for newly minted Kansas Ci...

BWW Review: AMERICAN IDIOT Opens at the Black Box
by Steve Wilson - August 22, 2021

I saw an AMERICAN IDIOT in Kansas City, and I LIKED it. Produced by Padgett Productions, AMERICAN IDIOT explodes onto the stage at The Black Box in Kansas City, Missouri. With only a short run of four days, it begins to give hope to the theater-starved residents that maybe live theater is beginning ...

BWW Review: HAIR: THEN AND NOW at Musical Theater Heritage
by Alan Portner - August 09, 2021

Live, Indoor, Actor’s Equity sanctioned, precaution observed, musical theater has returned to Crown Center. Now running through August 22 is Musical Theater Heritage’s concert production of “Hair: Then and Now.”...

BWW Review: DEAD RINGER at Musical Theater Heritage
by Alan Portner - July 10, 2021

Live Theater has returned to Musical Theater Heritage with the World Premiere production of “Dead Ringer.” Starring in this one man tour de force is Canadian performer and Kansas City favorite Zachary Stevenson....

BWW Review: THE KING IN CONCERT Returns Live Performances to the New Theatre Restaurant
by Steve Wilson - July 07, 2021

Ladies and gentlemen Elvis has returned to the building! The New Theatre and Restaurant in Overland Park presents THE KING IN CONCERT, starring two-time World Champion Elvis tribute artist, Victor Trevino, Jr., now through September 12....

BWW Review: DRAGONS LOVE TACOS RUNS THROUGH AUGUST 8 AT Coterie Theatre
by Steve Wilson - July 06, 2021

What happens when you give a dragon a taco with spicy jalapeno sauce? This sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but instead, it is the marvelous DRAGONS LOVE TACOS now playing at the Coterie Theatre at Crown Center through August 8. This adaption from the New York Times #1bestselling phenomenon,...

BWW Review: BLAME IT ON THE BOOGIE at Musical Theater Heritage
by Steve Wilson - June 12, 2021

I can’t think of a better way to welcome live theater back to Kansas City than to BLAME IT ON THE BOOGIE a production of Musical Theater Heritage and playing in the 4th-floor theater in Crown Center. This is MTH’s first indoor production in sixteen months due to the pandemic, and as the announcer sa...

BWW Review: KC Ballet at the Starlight
by Kelly Luck - May 22, 2021

In a not-quite-post-Covid world, the resilience of the performing arts is on display at the Starlight....