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Kansas City, MO 64108

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Review: GASLIGHT at Union Station


by Alan Portner - January 20, 2024

They say you never forget your first.  That was certainly the situation for a former Scotland Yard Police Inspector named Rough (played by John Rensenhouse).  Oddly, Inspector Rough had no known first name. Rough’s first bloody murder case in 1865 remained unsolved fifteen years after the event....

Kansas City Actors Theatre Present The Classic Victorian Thriller GASLIGHT


by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 05, 2024

Kansas City Actors Theatre presents the classic Victorian thriller 'Gaslight (Angel Street)' by Patrick Hamilton. This edge-of-your-seat thriller starts January 17th at the City Stage in Union Station. ...

Last Chance to Vote for the BWW Kansas City Awards; Voting Ends 12/31


by BWW Awards - December 26, 2023

It's the final week left to vote for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Kansas City Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

2 Weeks to Vote for the BWW Kansas City Awards; DREAMGIRLS, A RAISIN IN THE SUN, & More Lead!


by BWW Awards - December 18, 2023

There's just two weeks left to vote and we have the latest standings as of Monday, December 18th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Kansas City Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

BroadwayWorld Kansas City Awards; DREAMGIRLS, A RAISIN IN THE SUN, & More Lead!


by BWW Awards - December 11, 2023

It's the final 3 weeks and we have the latest standings as of Monday, December 11th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Kansas City Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

BroadwayWorld Kansas City Awards December 5th Standings; Leads Favorite Local Theatre!


by BWW Awards - December 05, 2023

It's December, and the first standings of the month have been announced as of Tuesday, December 5th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Kansas City Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Latest Standings Announced For The 2023 BroadwayWorld Kansas City Awards; Leads Favorite Local Theatre!


by BWW Awards - November 27, 2023

Happy Holidays! The latest wave of standings have been announced as of Monday, November 27th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Kansas City Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Kansas City Actors Theatre Reveals 2024/2025 20th Anniversary Season


by Stephi Wild - November 15, 2023

Kansas City Actors Theatre has announced the line-up for its 20th Anniversary season, which will feature one classic work receiving its first professional regional production, a revival of a contemporary classic, the regional premiere of a new adaptation of a classic thriller, and the regional premi...

Kansas City Repertory Theatre Announces Cast For A CHRISTMAS CAROL


by A.A. Cristi - October 17, 2023

Kansas City Repertory Theatre continues its 2023-24 season with the beloved holiday classic, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, adapted for the stage by Geoff Elliott and directed by Kansas City Repertory Theatre's Associate Artistic Director of KCRep/UMKC Partnership Jason Chanos. ...

Review: SKELETON CREW at Kansas City Actors Theatre


by Alan Portner - September 20, 2023

Kansas City Actors Theater last week opened their new production of “Skeleton Crew” a relatively new (2016) play by Dominique Morisseau on the City Stage located on the lower level of Union Station....

Past Shows

Gaslight (Angel Street)
Gaslight (Angel Street)
1/17 - 2/4/2024


This incredible 1938 Victorian thriller, famous for its Academy Award winning adaptation to the big screen, details the dark tale of a marriage based on ...


The play centers around a couple, Nancy and Bill, who have been married for 50 years. They decide to move to a retirement community called ...

Smart People
Smart People
1/18 - 1/29/2023


Smart People is a great ride! (Deadline) Written by Lydia R. Diamond, winner of the Lorraine Hansberry Award Winner for Best Writing. Smart People is ...

Dot
Dot
9/7 - 9/18/2022


A thoroughly entertaining comedy-drama (The New York Times) From Tony Award Nominated playwright Colman Domingo. Dot chronicles a West Philadelphia family dealing with the matriarchs ...

About Alice
About Alice
8/17 - 8/28/2022


Sometimes we come across a piece of first-person writing that shocks us back into a restorative innocence vis--vis the human heart. (The New York Times) ...

The Pests
The Pests
1/12 - 1/30/2022


Newly translated and adapted by UMKC professor Dr. Felicia Londré as part of the city-wide celebration, “KC MOlière: 400 in 2022,” “The Pests” follows the ...

Four Children
Four Children
10/7 - 10/24/2021


Developed specifically as a world premiere in honor of the Auschwitz exhibit, this emotionally charged theatrical event draws on the diary entries from teenagers who ...

The Christians
2/3 - 2/14/2021


Twenty years ago, Pastor Paul’s church was nothing more than a modest storefront. Now he presides over a congregation of thousands, with classrooms for Sunday ...

Betrayal
1/13 - 1/31/2021


Kansas City Actors Theatre Harold Pinter...


Kansas City Actors Theatre will present an original online play, "Get Us Out of These Boxes: A Zoom Christmas Carol," written by KCAT company member ...

St. Nicholas
St. Nicholas
3/11 - 3/29/2020


Conor McPherson's booze-soaked tale of art, obsession, and the supernatural. Audience-favorite Victor Raider-Wexler (Mornings at Seven, And Then There Were None, The Gin Game) regales ...

'night, Mother
'night, Mother
1/8 - 1/26/2020


Jessie feels like a stranger in her own story, and shes ready to end it. Marsha Norman's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama is the story of a ...

'Night, Mother
1/8 - 1/26/2020


Marsha Norman Kansas City Actors Theatre...

Master Harold... and the Boys


Athol Fugard's semi-autobiographical, Drama Desk Award-winning Master Harold and the Boys is often regarded as one of the esteemed South African playwrights best works. In ...

A Doll's House
A Doll's House
8/7 - 8/25/2019


Nora Helmer fights to save her family and herself from scandal in Henrik Ibsen's classic play that sparked controversy when it was first produced 140 ...

Morning's at Seven
Morning's at Seven
5/22 - 6/9/2019


The four Gibbs sisters have reached their Golden Years, and life should be easy. But its never so when your neighbors are relatives, and with ...

Death and the Maiden
1/9 - 1/27/2019


Paulina Salas, a former political prisoner, and her husband Gerardo Escobar, a lawyer, live in a time of transition as their country shifts from dictatorship ...


Mitch Brian; dir: John Rensenhouse. World Premiere...

Sea Marks
1/10 - 1/28/2018


Gardner McKay; dir: Jan Rogge. H&R Block City Stage:...

King Lear
10/13 - 10/22/2017


William Shakespeare; dir: Ed Stern....

A Lie of the Mind
9/13 - 10/1/2017


After a severe incident of spousal abuse tears Jake and Beth apart, their two families hole up to await the backlash. Set in rural California ...

And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None
8/9 - 8/27/2017


Ten suspicious and malicious souls are alone on an island when murder ensues in Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. Considered by many to ...

The Realistic Joneses
5/24 - 6/11/2017


Will Eno....

My Old Lady
My Old Lady
1/11 - 1/29/2017


Kansas City Actors Theatre introduces Israel Horovitz, an acclaimed but neglected playwright, with this witty, wise and romantic play. When a failed American novelist inherits ...

A Streetcar Named Desire
9/7 - 9/25/2016


After losing her Mississippi home to creditors, Blanche du Bois relocates to the New Orleans home of her younger sister and brother-in-law, Stella and Stanley ...

A Streetcar Named Desire
9/7 - 9/25/2016


After losing her Mississippi home to creditors, Blanche du Bois relocates to the New Orleans home of her younger sister and brother-in-law, Stella and Stanley ...

I'm Not Rappaport
8/10 - 8/28/2016


Herb Gardner; dir: Dennis Hennessy....

I'm Not Rappaport
8/10 - 8/28/2016


Herb Gardner; dir: Dennis Hennessy....

Crimes of the Heart
2/25 - 3/8/2015


Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play. The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the ...

Journey's End
2/14 - 3/2/2014


J.C. Nichols Auditorium: R.C. Sherriff; dir: Mark Robbins....

Three Viewings
10/29 - 11/17/2013


by Jeffrey Hatcher Tell-Tale is the story of Emil, the mild-mannered undertaker whose unspoken passion for a local real-estate woman who comes to all his ...

Long Day's Journey into Night


Eugene O'Neill; dir: John Rensenhouse....

Picnic
Picnic
8/6 - 8/25/2013


William Inge's beautiful story of love, regret, and the courage to pursue one's dreams in 1950's small-town America....

Billy Bishop Goes to War
Billy Bishop Goes to War
2/10 - 2/26/2012


Our partnership with UMKC Theatre and one of Kansas City’s true gems, the National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, continues following last season’s ...

God of Carnage
God of Carnage
10/19 - 11/13/2011


Two couples meet to have a civil discussion regarding a schoolyard fight between their sons. What results is a savagely hysterical night of tantrums and ...

The Birthday Party
The Birthday Party
8/16 - 9/11/2011


The Birthday Party was the first full-length offering from British playwright Harold Pinter, who is now widely regarded as the theatre’s master of enigma and ...

The Lover, The Collection, & Night


The Collection focuses on sexual relationships—hetero-, homo- and bi—and shows us the corrosive effects of jealousy and suspicion. The play brings us into the lives ...

Old Times
Old Times
9/4


One Time Only…First in a series of readings highlighting additional works by this season’s playwrights. Union Station’s H&R Block City Stage....

Videos


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PHOTOS DISCOUNT
Clue in Kansas City Clue
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts [Muriel Kauffman Theatre] (4/2 - 4/7)
I Hate Hamlet in Kansas City I Hate Hamlet
Theatre Lawrence (4/19 - 4/28)
Jimmy Buffett's Escape to Margaritaville in Kansas City Jimmy Buffett's Escape to Margaritaville
Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre (6/28 - 7/7)
42nd Street in Kansas City 42nd Street
Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre (6/7 - 6/16)
Ken Ludwig’s Moriarty: A New Sherlock Holmes Adventure in Kansas City Ken Ludwig’s Moriarty: A New Sherlock Holmes Adventure
Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre (9/6 - 9/15)
Noises Off in Kansas City Noises Off
Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre (8/17 - 8/25)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in Kansas City Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre (7/19 - 7/28)
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