Alan Portner

It is a quest to commit the perfect murder, and it almost works. “Dial M For Murder” is the twisted story of a failed novelist who has married an heiress and has decided to do her in to inherit her millions.

Victor Wishna's new play “Tree of Life” deserves an audience beyond its current World Premiere production ending on September 22.

Kansas City audiences do not often get the opportunity to see World Premiere productions of plays by Tony Award-winning playwrights.

Imagine a very funny stage comedy hidden behind a locked door, puzzler of a 1940s mystery movie and you've got AN OLD-FASHIONED FAMILY MURDER now playing at New Theatre and Restaurant.

Meredith Willson’s THE MUSIC MAN opened this week at The White Theatre to an almost full house standing ovation. THE MUSIC MAN is a tribute to small town America around the turn of the twentieth century. The location is River City, Iowa on the Iowa/Illinois border in 1912.

A reimagined ‘Twas the Night Before’ brings the beloved poem to life with clowns, acrobats and aerialists.

Cirque du Soleil 's excellent new Christmas Show, TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE… opens at the Kansas City Music Hall for eight performances beginning THE NIGHT BEFORE…Thanksgiving Day and continues through Sunday, December 1.

One of the fun parts of reviewing shows in Kansas City is the occasional opportunity to meet and interview some of the talented touring performers who come through with road productions of Broadway shows.

Heating up the boards at New Theatre Restaurant now through February 2, 2025 is a new production of a reliable Off-Broadway Musical Review called NUNSENSE featuring a very funny quintet of comedy Sisters from the “Little Sisters of Olathe.”

FUNNY GIRL is one of the crown gems of the American Musical Theater. Kansas City audiences will be treated to a first-class production of a show that many theater buffs know about but have never seen.