Kansas City Theatre Newsroom

Three former KC SuperStar finalists will serve as judges for the 2024 Semifinals at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 6 in The Lewis and Shirley White Theatre at the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park. 

Music Theater Heritage has announced the cast and creative team for The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. Performances run June 6 through June 23.

Get ready for a fun, immersive theater experience as THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL opens at Goppert Theatre at Avial University, presented by First Act Theatre Arts. Learn how to purchase tickets.

 Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts has announced the latest additions to the Kauffman Center Presents fall 2024 line-up. Learn more about the upcoming shows here!

Discover the 2024-2025 season lineup at Park University's International Center for Music. Immerse yourself in the world of music with performances from renowned artists.

Michael is Roman Banks with a spot-on almost miraculous personification of the Ing of Pop.  The dancing, the voice, the persona.  They are all there.  Banks offers a remarkable performance.  

Discover the line-up and schedule for the 2024 Future Stages Festival at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.

For those of you who feel the need for a light, fun evening of laugh out loud comedy and a delightful meal, let me recommend “SQUABBLES” a live comedy play that has Just opened at New Theatre Restaurant in Overland Park.  “SQUABBLES” is a light comedy with an unusually tight and experienced cast featuring Donny Most (from the old “Happy Days” sitcom) and an excellent group of mostly local actors. 

Kansas City Actors Theatre will kick off its 2024/2025 20th Anniversary Season of productions with the award-winning The Lehman Trilogy by Stefano Massini, adapted to English by Ben Power.

Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts has announced two exciting additions to the Kauffman Center Presents fall 2024 line-up.

The Coterie Theatre has announced its 2024/2025 season lineup. Learn more here!

Discover the exciting lineup for The Coterie's 2024/2025 season, beginning with a co-produced world premiere with the American Royal in September 2025. Stay updated with BroadwayWorld for more details.

Discover the exciting lineup for the 2024-2025 season at the Midwest Trust Center. From Broadway hits to unique performances, there's something for everyone in the upcoming schedule.

Wandering a bit outside the Kansas City Metro, Broadway World had the opportunity to explore a current production running at the Fox Theatre in downtown Springfield as a co-production of Springfield Contemporary Theatre and Resident Artist Ensemble. The play is 2013’s THE OTHER PLACE by Sharr White, a fascinating, four actor study of one woman’s journey of discovery as she experiences unexplained changes in what should be the prime of her life.

Tickets for AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER IN CONCERT in Kansas City are on sale now. This production will take the Kauffman Center stage on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024 for two performances at 2:00 and 7:30 p.m. 

Join the orchestra on Thursday evening May 2 for a concert featuring a program filled with propulsive music of the Baroque era. Part of its Baroque by Candlelight series, this KCCO concert includes Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 unusually featuring the lower strings with violas soloists, cellos, bass, and harpsichord.

Join the Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey for an engaging Ailey II public performance, specially designed for young audiences. Experience the magic of dance at the Folly Theater this April.

See 'The Simon & Garfunkel Story' at the Midwest Trust Center

Theatre Communications Group has announced the latest recipients of the THRIVE! Uplifting Theatres of Color program.

I remember seeing a remarkable, ten-year-old Michael Jackson with his brothers on Sunday’s Ed Sullivan Show in the late 1960s.  He was a heck of a performer even then.   It seems remarkable that the man that little boy became passed away more than fifteen years ago. More unbelievably, Michael would be eligible this year for Social Security and Medicare.

Celebrate Mother’s Day a day early with a free pipe organ concert presented by the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts and Saint Luke’s on Saturday, May 11, at 3 p.m. in Helzberg Hall. GRAMMY-nominated artist Jan Kraybill will perform “An Around-the-World Musical Adventure” from the console of the spectacular Julia Irene Kauffman Casavant Organ, Opus 3875, one of the finest concert hall organs in the nation. 

The Music Theatre Kansas City – (Pro) KC Premiere production of the 2014’s Broadway version of “Rocky the Musical” is surprisingly worth your time.  It is hard to have avoided Sylvester Stallone’s “Rocky Franchise” beginning as a sleeper, low budget film hit in 1976.  So far there have been six “Rocky” movies plus several follow-on films based on the career of the son of Apollo Creed, Rocky’s original opponent and eventual friend.

Grammy-nominated and internationally acclaimed Liverpool Legends will be at Regalia Hotel and Convention Center on Friday, May 24, 2024, and Saturday, May 25, 2024, at 8:00pm for Memorial Day Weekend.

Experience the short film THE LAST BUTTERFLIES at the prestigious Kansas City Film Festival International. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Charlotte Street has announced its 2024 The Guest Curator lecture series featuring Taylor Jasper, Assistant Curator of Visual Arts, Walker Art Center; Jadine Collingwood, Associate Curator, MCA Chicago; and Carlos Quijon, Jr., Curator, Philippine Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale and C-MAP Fellow for Southeast and East Asia, MoMA.