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'The Addams Family'


A comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family. Featuring an original story and every father’s nightmare....

Parade
Parade
1/28 - 2/2/2025


Leo and Lucille Frank are a newlywed Jewish couple struggling to make a life in the old red hills of Georgia. When Leo is accused ...

Teen Writers Fest
Teen Writers Fest
1/31 - 2/2/2025


Spinning Tree Theatre proudly presents TEEN WRITERS FEST January 31 – February 2. Each of three original plays were written by Kansas City metro area ...


The Park University International Center for Music Orchestra will host its annual Valentine's Concert on February 7 at the Graham Tyler Memorial Chapel. The event ...

Mean Girls
Mean Girls
2/6 - 2/8/2025


Cady Heron moves to suburban Illinois and learns about the most dangerous habitat of them all: public high school.

Sunday in the Park with George


 Inspired by the painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by George Seurat, this Stephen Sondheim masterpiece celebrates and explores the ...

Love is In the Air


This intimate evening will feature a wind ensemble of KCCO players, including flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, and horns—performers who aren’t often featured on their own. ...

Beauty and the Beast
2/21 - 2/23/2025


Kansas City Ballet will present Beauty and the Beast from February 21-23, 2025, at the Historic Folly Theater. This family-friendly adaptation features choreography and live ...

BEETLEJUICE
2/18 - 2/23/2025


The eccentric story of Lydia Deetz unfolds in this musical adaptation of the classic Tim Burton film, bringing laughter and heart as she encounters a ...

Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice
2/18 - 2/23/2025


It's showtime, folks! The ghost-with-the-most makes his Broadway return in this edgy and irreverent musical comedy based on Tim Burton's dearly beloved film. BEETLEJUICE tells ...

Hairspray
Hairspray
1/31 - 2/23/2025


Co-produced with The Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City. The 1950s are out, and change is in the air! “Hairspray,” winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best ...

Hairspray
Hairspray
2/1 - 2/23/2025


Saturdays | Feb. 1, 8, 15, 22 at 7:30 p.m. Sundays | Feb. 2, 9, 16, 23 at 2 p.m. Wednesday | Feb. 5, 12 at ...

Rhythm India: Bollywood and Beyond


Created by World Choreography Award Nominee and Telly Award-winning director and choreographer, Joya Kazi, and featuring the company dancers of Joya Kazi Unlimited, as seen ...

'Dirty Dancing in Concert'


Enjoy the digitally remastered hit film like never before on a full-size cinema screen, with a live band and singers performing the film’s iconic songs. ...

R.E.S.P.E.C.T.


“R.E.S.P.E.C.T” is an electrifying tribute celebrating the music of the legendary Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. This concert experience takes audiences on a journey of ...

Trey McLaughlin and the Sounds of Zamar


Trey McLaughlin & The Sounds of Zamar have carved out a unique place for themselves in the music industry through soul-stirring arrangements of contemporary gospel, ...

Trailblazing Women of Country: From Patsy to Loretta to Dolly


“Trailblazing Women of Country” will entertain and inspire. Celebrate Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, and the late Loretta Lynn, and their roles in revolutionizing country music ...

'Maya and the Magic Ring'
'Maya and the Magic Ring'
3/27 - 3/30/2025


In this new opera for families, a young girl named Maya accidentally releases a genie, leading to chaos as she wishes her cat and toy ...

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time


Saturdays | March 15, 22, 29 at 7:30 p.m. Sundays | March 16, 23, 30 at 2 p.m. Wednesdays | March 19, 26 at 9:30 ...

Back to the Future: The Musical


Marty McFly is a rock 'n' roll teenager who is accidentally transported back to 1955 in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his friend, Dr. Emmett ...

Heartland Men's Chorus
Heartland Men's Chorus
4/5 - 4/6/2025


Saturday, April 5 at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 6 at 3 p.m. Proudly singing out in Kansas City since 1986, Heartland Men’s Chorus brings its ...

Omnium Circus: 'I'm Possible'


Omnium Circus is the best in whole family entertainment. A world renown fully inclusive circus company brings excitement, thrills and joy to young and young ...

Hadestown (Non-Equity)


Following two intertwining love stories — that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone — Hadestown invites audiences on ...

Uptown
Uptown
4/19


From New York City, the epicenter of contemporary pop and soul, Uptown combines the smooth stylings of R&B with the fresh hits of today. It’s ...


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Review: PARADE at Kauffman Theatre


by Alan Portner - January 29, 2025

The touring company of PARADE, now playing at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, recounts the sad, but true tale of Leo Frank and Mary Phagan. Mr. Frank was almost certainly falsely convicted of Ms. Phagan’s April 27, 1913 murder due to an early twentieth century eruption of rampant antise...

Review: CHICAGO: THE MUSICAL at Kauffman Theater


by Alan Portner - January 10, 2025

Chicago, the Musical, now playing at the Kauffman Center for Performing Arts, is a super evening out for you and your significant other.  It is a welcome respite from our incredible snow event last weekend. ...

Review: WHO'S HOLIDAY A CHRISTMAS MASTERPIECE OPENS IN KANSAS CITY at The Ruby Room


by Steve Wilson - December 09, 2024

Ho...Ho...Ho, Cindy Lou Who, that’s who returned to Kansas City on Friday, December 6, in WHO’S HOLIDAY A NEW COMEDY WITH A TWIST OF RHYME. Padgett Productions’ Christmas delight opened on the stage of the Ruby Room inside Crown Center. The Ruby Room is the perfect venue for WHO’S HOLIDAY, as the sh...

Review: FUNNY GIRL at Kansas City Music Hall


by Alan Portner - December 04, 2024

FUNNY GIRL is one of the crown gems of the American Musical Theater. Kansas City audiences will be treated to a first-class production of a show that many theater buffs know about but have never seen. Tuesday night’s performance starred Leah Platt in the lead role of Fanny Brice. Leah has a gangbus...

Review: NUNSENSE at New Theatre Restaurant


by Alan Portner - December 03, 2024

Heating up the boards at New Theatre Restaurant now through February 2, 2025 is a new production of a reliable Off-Broadway Musical Review called NUNSENSE featuring a very funny quintet of comedy Sisters from the “Little Sisters of Olathe.”...

Review: MAXINE'S CHRISTMAS CAROL Opens in Kansas City at At the City Stage


by Steve Wilson - December 02, 2024

Spoiler alert: What did the iconic Maxine from MAXINE’S CHRISTMAS CAROL learn on opening night? The answer: She learned that Padget Productions has another holiday treat on its hands. MAXINE’S CHRISTMAS CAROL opened on Friday, November 29, at the City Stage inside Union Station. The musical comedy w...

Review: CIRQUE DU SOLEIL: TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE... at KANSAS CITY MUSIC HALL


by Alan Portner - November 25, 2024

Cirque Du Soleil’s excellent new Christmas Show, TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE… opens at the Kansas City Music Hall for eight performances beginning THE NIGHT BEFORE…Thanksgiving Day and continues through Sunday, December 1....

Review: BUBBLE BOY, A MUSICAL ABOUT BURSTING OUT at Johnson County Arts & Heritage Center


by Steve Wilson - November 01, 2024

What did our critic think of BUBBLE BOY, A MUSICAL ABOUT BURSTING OUT at Johnson County Arts & Heritage Center?...

Review: THE MUSIC MAN at White Theatre


by Alan Portner - October 28, 2024

Meredith Willson’s THE MUSIC MAN opened this week at The White Theatre to an almost full house standing ovation. THE MUSIC MAN is a tribute to small town America around the turn of the twentieth century. The location is River City, Iowa on the Iowa/Illinois border in 1912....

Review: 'Dammit, Janet' THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW is Live in Kansas City at The Grand Theatre


by Steve Wilson - October 12, 2024

Forty-nine years after Richard O’Brien wrote the book, lyrics, and music for THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW it remains a cult classic, and it has risen to a new level as Padgett Productions opens THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW LIVE in the Grand Theatre at Crown Center in Kansas City. The show opened to a raucous audi...



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