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'The Pa'akai We Bring'
4/25 - 4/26/2025
The play follows a family with multiple generations of salt farmers on Kauai, mixing in ancient stories, hula, live music, original songs, and plenty of ...
Bright Star
4/24 - 4/26/2025
Annie
6/27 - 6/29/2025
Come see Gladstone Theatre in the Park's production of Annie at 8:30 pm June 27-29 at Oak Grove Park! Based on the popular comic strip ...
ROCK OF AGES
6/18 - 7/13/2025
ROCK OF AGES JUNE 18 - JULY 13 Written by Chris D'Arienzo ROCK OF AGES is a jukebox musical that tells the story of Drew, ...
West Side Story
7/5 - 7/27/2025
Saturdays | July 5, 12, 19, 26 at 7:30 p.m. Sundays | July 6, 13, 20, 27 at 2 p.m. Wednesdays | July 9, 16, ...
NUNSENSE
6/27 - 8/2/2025
NUNSENSE JUNE 27 - AUGUST 2 Book, music and lyrics written by Dan Goggin NUNSENSE is a habit-forming, riotous musical spoof about the misadventures of ...
Elf the Musical
8/1 - 8/3/2025
Join us for Gladstone Theatre in the Park's Elf the Musical at 8:30 pm Aug. 1-3 at Oak Grove Park! A title known the world ...
Stuff of Dreams
9/13 - 9/21/2025
Saturdays | Sept. 13 & 20 at 7:30 p.m. Sundays | Sept. 14 & 21 at 2 p.m. Wednesday | Sept. 17 at 7:30 p.m. ...
CHURCH BASEMENT LADIES: A SECOND HELPING
9/24 - 10/12/2025
THE CHURCH BASEMENT LADIES: A SECOND HELPING SEPTEMBER 24 - OCTOBER 12 Written by Greta Grosch Music and Lyrics by Drew Jansen and Dennis Curley ...
ELVID HAS LEFT THE BUILDING
12/3 - 12/14/2025
ELVIS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING DECEMBER 3 - 14 By Duke Ernsberger and Virginia Cate ELVIS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING is an enjoyable experience for ...
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Latest Kansas City Reviews
Review: RUMORS at New Theatre Restaurant
by Alan Portner - February 23, 2025
A super cast makes the most of Neil Simon’s 1988 word-salad comedy masterpiece entitled RUMORS. RUMORS opened last week at New Theater Restaurant in Overland Park. This one is played strictly for laughs.
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Review: HAIRSPRAY at White Theatre
by Alan Portner - February 04, 2025
HAIRSPRAY, a co-production of the White Theatre and the Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City, is the kind of old-fashioned, joyous, musical theater experience that recalls a PAJAMA GAME, or a DAMN YANKEES, kind of show that is just pure entertainment. Additionally, HAIRSPRAY has a point to make a...
Review: BOOK OF DAYS at Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre
by Alan Portner - February 01, 2025
Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre kicks off its 2025 calendar year offerings with an offbeat murder mystery/character study by Lanford Wilson called BOOK OF DAYS performed at The Westport Bowery. The play, originally commissioned by Jeff Daniels in 1998 for his own small town (Michigan) theater company,...
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....
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'Maya and the Magic Ring'
Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College (3/27 - 3/30) | |
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Trey McLaughlin and the Sounds of Zamar
Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College (3/28 - 3/28) | |
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The Cher Show (Non-Equity)
Lied Center of Kansas (4/23 - 4/23) | |
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ELVID HAS LEFT THE BUILDING
Maples Repertory Theatre (12/3 - 12/14) | ||
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THE GLASS MENAGERIE
Maples Repertory Theatre (10/17 - 10/26) | ||
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Annie
Gladstone Theatre in the Park (6/27 - 6/29) | |
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Back to the Future: The Musical
Kansas City Music Hall (4/1 - 4/6) | |
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Elf the Musical
Gladstone Theatre in the Park (8/1 - 8/3) | |
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