Now enjoying its 38th season, the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra is the world's only year-round, professional ensemble specializing in recreating the sounds of early musical theater, ...
Purple xPeRIeNCE
11/16
THE PURPLE XPERIENCE Featuring Marshall Charloff Saturday, November 16 7:30pm The Purple Xperience, featuring Marshall Charloff is the most authentic and awe-inspiring celebration of Prince ...
Schoolhouse Rock Live! Jr
12/4 - 12/4/2024
The Emmy® Award-winning Saturday morning educational cartoon series is now the basis for one of the most fun, energetic, and easily mounted musicals ever to ...
Funny Girl
12/3 - 12/8/2024
This bittersweet comedy is the story of the indomitable Fanny Brice, a girl from the Lower East Side who dreamed of a life on the ...
It's a wonderful combination of timeless ancient Irish Christmas carols and lively Irish dance, along with modern contemporary songs with Irish instrumentation. New Christmas hits, ...
Owen/Cox Dance Group: The Nutcracker & the Mouse King
12/13 - 12/15/2024
Revel in the return of Owen/Cox Dance Group’s raucous holiday classic, in collaboration with The People’s Liberation Big Band of Greater Kansas City....
A Christmas Carol
12/13 - 12/22/2024
A Lyceum tradition, now celebrating its 10th anniversary! The Lyceum is pleased to bring to life the familiar story of a seemingly heartless miser given one last ...
Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
12/6 - 12/22/2024
Come with us and step into a world of pure imagination this holiday season! The mysterious Willy Wonka is opening the gates to his factory ...
Sugarplum: An Original Nutcracker Musical
12/13 - 12/22/2024
In this world premiere musical adventure, we meet Sugarplum, a charismatic and enterprising girl boss who is suddenly transported on an adventure to a snowy ...
Holiday Reflections
11/22 - 1/1/2025
Holiday Reflections returns to Union Station Kansas City for its fifth season, transforming Grand Plaza into a festive indoor holiday village spanning 27,000 sq. ft. ...
Making ballet accessible by pairing it with current songs familiar to audiences who don’t normally attend ballet performances. Incorporating the rhythms of African drums with ...
Clyde's
2/5
Lynn Nottage...
A comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family. Featuring an original story and every father’s nightmare....
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
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
3/16
“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 & 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” 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'
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 ...
Back to the Future: The Musical
4/1 - 4/6/2025
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 ...
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 ...
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
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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What did our critic think of BUBBLE BOY, A MUSICAL ABOUT BURSTING OUT at Johnson County Arts & Heritage Center?...
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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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by Alan Portner - August 04, 2024
Looking for a little relief from the ongoing political season? If so, I should like to recommend the outrageous, belly-laugh of a show now playing in the Music Theatre Heritage Grand Theater on the fourth floor of Crown Center described by another audience member as “awesome.” It is the self-depreca...
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