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"Bus Stop"
Dates: Mar. 12-Apr. 4 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Spencer Theatre, 4949 Cherry St., Kansas City, Mo.
"Bus Stop" tells the story of the night a March blizzard traps eight strangers in a small cafe 30 miles west of Kansas City. A bus driver falls for the bus stop proprietress, a young local girl becomes fascinated by a professor running away from his...
Type: Theatre
Paul Mesner Puppets presents "Rhymes, Rap, Miss Mary Mack"
Dates: Apr. 12-17 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch, 4801 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
Clap along with Miss Mary Mack as she dances through the wonderful world of Rhymes and nursery Raps. Looking for 50 cents, she baby-sits the Jack Sprats' child who leads her on a merry chase to a bullring, the banks of Hanky Panky, and home again ju...
Admission: $9 adults, $7 children.
Type: Theatre
"Green Whales"
Dates: Mar. 5-28 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Unicorn Theatre, 3828 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
Karen looks like a teenager but is actually a brilliant, albeit dateless, 38-year-old philosophy professor. Her wacky sister Joanna concocts a plan to find Karen's “perfect” match while navigating her own tenuous relationship. This bizarrely comic l...
Admission: $20-$30.
Type: Theatre
The Mystery Train presents "Who's In First?"
Dates: Feb. 5-Apr. 3 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: Prime Rib Grill by Hereford House, 100 E 20th St., Kansas City, Mo.; Feb. 20 performance will be at Californos, 4121 Pennsylvania St., Kansas City, Mo.
It's 1914, and the railroad barons have changed the face of Kansas City. Opening day for the beautiful new Union Station has the rich, the famous, the clever and the devious caught up in a train race to be the first to pull out of the new station. ...
Admission: $54-64
Type: Theatre
"Grand Canyon Adventure"
Dates: Jul. 3, 2009-Jul. 3, 2010 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: Union Station, City Extreme Screen, 30 W. Pershing Rd., Kansas City, Mo.
Set against the immense backdrop of the majestic Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon Adventure will take audiences on an exhilarating river-rafting adventure down the Colorado River in the company of a team of explorers who are committed to bringing awarenes...
Admission: $6.50 per person.
Type: Theatre
"I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change"
Dates: Mar. 12-Apr. 25 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: American Heartland Theatre, 2450 Grand St., Kansas City, Mo.
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change celebrates the universal theme of love and pokes fun at the life experiences we've all either gone through or will go through. I Love You explores every aspect of relationships- the joys of dating, romance, mar...
Admission: $15.50-33.50
Type: Theatre
"Ride Around The World"
Dates: Jan. 15-Jul. 3 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: Union Station, City Extreme Screen, 30 W. Pershing Rd., Kansas City, Mo.
Take a wild ride to discover the amazing 1200-year global history of the cowboy. Rope wild bulls on one of the most famous American ranches. Swim with horses through the watery Argentine backcountry. Stage an attack on the casbah with Moroccan mount...
Admission: $8.50 per person
Type: Theatre
"Frindle"
Dates: Apr. 6-May 23 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: The Coterie Theatre, Crown Center Shops, Level I, 2450 Grand Blvd. Kansas City, Mo.
Based on Andrew Clements' award-winning book; Adapted by William Massolia. Nicholas is ingenious. In Mrs. Granger's language arts class, Nick gets his est idea ever when his teacher explains how words end up in the dictionary. Nick decides to cre...
Admission: $15 adults, $10 youth, student, seniors; $9 Season Ticket Holders; Group pricing available; Target Saturdays: Free ticket with purchase (restrictions apply).
Type: Theatre
"Valhalla"
Dates: Apr. 9-May 12 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: Off Center Theatre, Crown Center, 2450 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.
Presented by Egads Theatre Company, this play intertwines two stories: the life of Ludwig of Bavaria (the 1880s Mad King) and the finctional adventures of James Avery, a wild Texas teenager of the 1940s. It's a comic epic, confronting the price to b...
Type: Theatre
"Michael Jordan to the Max"
Dates: Mar. 4-28 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: Union Station, City Extreme Screen, 30 W. Pershing Rd., Kansas City, Mo.
This film captures the real-life story of Michael Jordan, the most spectacular athelete of the 20th century and the world's most recognizable person. The audience will take a journey into the life of Michael Jordan, experiencing like never before th...
Admission: $8.50 per person
Type: Theatre
"Interlaced Terrain"
Dates: Mar. 26-27 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: Union Station, 30 W Pershing Rd., Kansas City, Mo.
Reach...a movement collective inc. has been inspiring, entertaining, and moving its Kansas City and regional audiences for over ten years. Join the dancers, choreographers, performers and creators of Reach for "Interlaced Terrain", a performance loo...
Admission: $12-$15
Type: Theatre
Musical Theater Heritage presents presents "Kiss Me Kate"
Dates: Mar. 11-22 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: Off Center Theatre, 2450 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.
A musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It is structured as a play within a play, where the interior play is a musical version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew....
Type: Theatre
Broadway Across America presents "A Chorus Line"
Dates: Apr. 20-25 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Music Hall, 301 W. 13th St., Kansas City, Mo.
In an empty theatre, on a bare stage, casting for a new Broadway musical is almost complete. For 17 dancers, this audition is the chance of a lifetime. It's what they've worked for - with every drop of sweat, every hour of training, every day of the...
Admission: $30-$61
Type: Major Events,Theatre
"Venice"
Dates: Apr. 9-May 9 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Copaken Stage, 13th & Walnut Sts., Kansas City, Mo.
Matt Sax and Eric Rosen, creators of the phenomenal Clay, join forces again to tell a new story of struggle and redemption. Loosely based on Shakespeare's Othello, but turned to the not-too-distant future, Venice tells the story of two brothers who ...
Type: Theatre
"Broadway's Best"
Dates: Mar. 5-Apr. 3 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Quality Hill Playhouse, 303 W 10th St, Kansas City, Mo.
We're looking back on more than 50 years of Tony Award® winning shows in this revue of songs from the best musicals of all time....
Admission: $26 adults, $24 students/seniors
Type: Theatre
The World of Beatrix Potter
Dates: Sat., Apr. 10 | Location: East | Venue: National Frontier Trails Museum, 318 W Pacific Ave., Independence, Mo.
Stephanie Goodman brings Beatrix Potter, the remarkable 19th century author of children's classic tales, to life in this wonderful one act play.
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Admission: Free with admission, $5 adults, $4.50 seniors, $3 ages 6-17
Type: Special Events,Theatre
"Wynken, Bynken and Nod"
Dates: Sat., Apr. 17 | Location: East | Venue: Puppetry Arts Institute, 11025 E Winner Rd., Independence, Mo.
A production of Eugene Field's famous poem with 30 rod puppets by puppeteer Tom Bonham....
Admission: $5 per person
Type: Theatre
Don't Dress for Dinner
Dates: Apr. 16-May 1 | Location: Northwest | Venue: 500 Delaware St, Leavenworth KS,66048
This boulevard comedy was a smash hit in Paris, where it played for over two years, and in London, where critical acclaim greeted the Apollo Theatre production. Bernard is planing a weekend with his chic Parisian mistress in a French farmhouse. He h...
Type: Theatre
"Cactus Flower"
Dates: Feb. 10-Apr. 11 | Location: Southwest | Venue: New Theatre Restaurant, 9229 Foster St, Overland Park, Kan.
Loretta Swit returns to New Theatre in this fast-paced comedy, a philandering bachelor dentist keeps his girlfriend at bay by telling her he's married. When the ruse threatens to catch up with him, he drafts his prickly nurse to pose as his "wife"....
Type: Theatre
"Becky's New Car"
Dates: Apr. 15-Jun. 20 | Location: Southwest | Venue: New Theatre Restaurant, 9229 Foster St, Overland Park, Kan.
Becky Foster has a pretty good job, a pretty good husband and a pretty good life so when a charming, bumbling billionaire starts flirting with her, Becky is suprised that she allows him to believe that she is widowed. Starring John Davidson. ...
Type: Theatre