(May. 14 11:04 AM) - The 12th annual Crown Center Antique Festival is set for June 9-10. More than 150 booths of unique items will fill Crown Center Square at 2450 Grand Boulevard from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. There is no admission fee.

(May. 13 12:30 AM) - Kim Crosby will play the Baker's Wife in the Springfield Little Theatre's INTO THE WOODS, which plays today, May 13 through 29 in Springfield, MO.

(May. 11 12:14 PM) - “Our 34th season will be another ambitious one for the Coterie. The Coterie's Lab for New Family Musicals will host an awesome holiday production and work with the composing/writing team behind Shrek the Musical to create the premiere Theatre for Young Audiences version,” said Jeff Church, producing artistic director. “There will be several wonderful productions based on books: Christopher Paul Curtis' Bud Not Buddy, Lois Lowry's Number the Stars and a piece based on Scholastic's Dear America Series.

(May. 9 12:30 AM) - It's the Coterie Theatre's favorite time of the year: world premiere readings from some of Kansas City's most talented teen playwrights will be showcased during the Annual Young Playwrights' Festival at 7 p.m. tonight, May 9 and tomorrow May 10 at the Coterie Theatre, level 1, Crown Center Shops. Professional actors, directors and designers work to present a collection of seven staged readings, plays and monologues from teen members of the Coterie's Young Playwrights' Roundtable.

(May. 8 9:10 AM) - Each summer ACT One, the Academy of Christian Theatre, offers students agesd 13 and up the opportunity to as interns at one of our week-long camps. In exchange for working at a camp, they receive a $50 discount on Teen Camp.

(May. 7 8:49 PM) - The NATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK (NNPN), the country’s alliance of non-profit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays, has announced the winner of the 2012 Smith Prize for a new play on American political themes: George Brant’s Grounded, the powerful, surprising story of an F-16 pilot who gets “repurposed” to fly drones following her unexpected pregnancy. In addition to upcoming development stints with the New Harmony Project and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Grounded will receive a staged reading at NNPN’s Annual Conference at Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City, MO on June 8, directed by Artistic Director Cynthia Levin.

(May. 7 3:36 PM) - A semi-autobiographical musical stage memoir by Sherie Rene Scott, this is the story of a woman’s "psycho-sexual-spiritual journey that separates her mostly Mennonite past from her mostly Manhattan future. She travels from Topeka, Kansas to New York City; with a disturbing detour through YouTube. Filled with familiar tunes, this musical follows Sherie’s road to Broadway semi-stardom."

(May. 4 9:11 AM) - Residents of a small town that was wiped out by one of the largest tornados ever recorded take the stage in an original theatrical event inspired by their story of survival and recovery.

(May. 4 12:30 AM) - American Heartland Theatre presents its second World Premiere comedy of the season by playwright Sean Grennan. The penultimate production in their 25th anniversary season, As Long As We Both Shall Live, continues AHT's tradition of bringing new works to the stage and supporting the local arts community.

(May. 3 4:05 PM) - The TONY Awards Nominators had their say earlier this week and now it's your turn! We're pleased to announce that voting has now opened for the 10th Annual BroadwayWorld.com Awards!

(May. 1 7:00 PM) - Kansas City Repertory Theatre, under the artistic leadership of Eric Rosen, closes its 2011-12 season with a professional production of the popular musical Little Shop of Horrors; book and lyrics by Howard Ashman, music by Alan Menken, based on the film by Roger Corman, screenplay by Charles Griffith. Kyle Hatley directs. Little Shop of Horrors runs now through May 20 at the Rep's Copaken Stage. See photos from the production below!

(Apr. 29 1:30 AM) - The Lyric Opera of Kansas City closes its 54th season with Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, presented at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, through tonight, April 29, 2012. The production will be the final opera performed in the Luskin/Holmquist era at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City.

(Apr. 29 12:30 AM) - Musical Theater Heritage presents SWEENEY TODD the musical, starring Don Richard & Cathy Barnett through today, April 29, at 2pm.

(Apr. 27 7:35 PM) - Crown Center has announced its summer schedule of events, May 2012 - August 2013. See details below.

(Apr. 27 4:02 PM) - American Heartland Theatre will present its second World Premiere comedy of the season by playwright Sean Grennan. The penultimate production in their 25th anniversary season, As Long As We Both Shall Live, continues AHT's tradition of bringing new works to the stage and supporting the local arts community.

(Apr. 27 3:49 PM) - Musical Theater Heritage presents SWEENEY TODD the musical, starring Don Richard & Cathy Barnett April 12-29. Performances are Thursdays at 7pm, Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 2pm & 8pm, and Sundays at 2pm.

(Apr. 26 6:49 PM) - It's the Coterie Theatre's favorite time of the year: world premiere readings from some of Kansas City's most talented teen playwrights will be showcased during the Annual Young Playwrights' Festival at 7 p.m. May 9 and 10 at the Coterie Theatre, level 1, Crown Center Shops. Professional actors, directors and designers work to present a collection of seven staged readings, plays and monologues from teen members of the Coterie's Young Playwrights' Roundtable.

(Apr. 26 12:30 AM) - Glen-Campbell-to-play-the-Uptown-Theater-426-20010101 Glen Campbell, who was honored at this year's Grammy Awards with a lifetime achievement award, announced his battle with Alzheimer’s disease late in 2011. Despite the diagnosis, Glen will hit the road for his “Goodbye Tour" and stops at Kansas City's Uptown Theater tonight, April 26.