Kansas City Theatre Newsroom

Kansas City Repertory Theatre has announced the cast for LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR AND GRILL, running from October 8-27, 2024 at Copaken Stage, exploring the life and music of Billie Holiday.

Kansas City Ballet has announced the addition of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST to its 2024-25 season.

You love Stephen King, you loved the movie, in Kansas City we love Halloween...what better combo is there for a night out in Kansas City, as we kick off Halloween season with the KC premiere of the thriller, MISERY, live on stage at The Black Box in the West Bottoms (1060 Union Avenue, KCMO)

Kansas City Actors Theatre will present DIAL M FOR MURDER beginning next week at the City Stage.

Nominations are now open for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Kansas City Awards. The 2024 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024.

Lyric Opera of Kansas City General Director and CEO Deborah Sandler Kemper have announced the inaugural production of the 2024-2025 season, The Brightness of Light, an innovative new work featuring superstar soprano Renée Fleming and esteemed baritone Rod Gilfry.

Victor Wishna's play 'Tree of Life' explores Jewish continuity through the story of a small synagogue in Ottumwa, Iowa, and its Torah scroll's journey to a new congregation in South America.

Ken Ludwig's MORIARTY: A NEW SHERLOCK HOLMES ADVENTURE will open at Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre, featuring a thrilling new mystery for the iconic detective. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Kansas City Public Theatre has announced the grand opening of its new space, Oak Street Studio, located in the heart of Kansas City's Crossroads Arts District. This versatile space will host small performances, workshops, classes, and art exhibitions, reinforcing KCPublic's mission of Radical Hospitality by making the arts accessible to all.

With the holiday season just around the corner, Union Station has announced the opening of advance ticket sales to Holiday Reflections.

Park ICM's 2024-25 season kicks off with a concert featuring internationally renowned pianist Behzod Abduraimov.

Kansas City native Darren Lynn Bousman, has joined forces with one of the city's most bone-chilling haunted houses, EXILED: Trail of Terror, to bring a new level of fear to Kansas City this fall. Together, they are crafting a one-of-a-kind fusion of terror and immersive storytelling -- giving people a living, breathing emotional experience.

It is funny. It is a slice of life. It is a literal peek behind the curtain. Kansas City Actors Theatre production of Alice Childress’s TROUBLE IN MIND allows audiences a long-delayed opportunity to vision America (and its theatrical community) as it appeared in 1955 from an African American point of view. I was struck by how much our country has matured (mostly for the better) over eighty years.

Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre will present NOISES OFF, a hilarious play-within-a-play that reveals the chaos behind the scenes of a British theatre troupe. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets.

Angela Lee Gieras steps down as Executive Director of Kansas City Repertory Theatre, marking the end of a significant leadership era. The theatre will commence a search for her successor.

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-deprecating, six-time Tony Winning, best musical of 1984, “La Cage aux Folles.”

Music Theater Heritage has released a first look at photos from its production of LA CAGE aux FOLLES, the fourth production in MTH's 2024 Season. Check out the photos here!

Comedian, actor and impersonator Matt Friend steps in as the celebrity host for this year’s KC SuperStar Finals, which will be held on Sunday, Aug. 25 at 7 p.m. in Yardley Hall at Johnson County Community College.

Theatre in the Park will present Sister Act, the disco-infused musical comedy that promises to have you dancing in your seats and laughing all the way to the convent. 

The final show of Theater In The Park’s 2024 outdoor season is a musical version of the 1992 film comedy “SISTER ACT.” 

What did our critic think of THE LITTLE MERMAID at White Theatre?

MOULIN ROUGE The Musical Is something entirely new to the wave of Juke Box musicals overwhelming the Great White Way.  It is big, bold, brassy, and projects an altogether sexy sumptuousness while maintaining a sense of humor about itself. The audience leaves the theater on a massive sugar high, fully entertained. The dancing, vocals, lighting, sets, and orchestrations are all “par excellence.”   It may not be challenging  theater, but MOULIN ROUGE is great entertainment. 

Experience the disco-infused musical comedy SISTER ACT at Theatre in the Park. Learn how to purchase tickets.

This production of NEWSIES, directed and choreographed by Jerry Jay Cranford and assisted by Christina Burton, features a cast of twenty-two dancers and singers, plus constantly in motion LED backdrops, a bridge flown high off the stage floor, combined with three matching stair/tower units strategically moving about the stage, and an eleven-piece orchestra. 

Theatre Atchison PRO will present an immersive, faith-based dinner theatre production of JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT at the Atchison Event Center. Learn how to purchase tickets.