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Coming Soon!

• Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
  The brand new $326 million Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts will bring a 1,600-seat ballet and opera house, as well as a 1,600-seat concert hall and 250-seat "Celebration Hall" when it opens in 2010. Perched on a hilltop at the south end of downtown Kansas City, Missouri, the Kauffman Center has been designed by world-renowned Moshe Safdie and a team of international experts in performing arts venues.

Performing Arts

• Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
  Kansas City is one of the summer homes to the world famous Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, which offers performances one week each year.
• American Heartland Theatre
  Located in Hallmark's Crown Center, the Heartland Theatre provides year-round professional theatre. Live, Broadway-style productions ranging from family comedies, musicals, dramas and mystery.
• Carlsen Center Series
  Located at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas, offers a distinguished concert series throughout the year.
• Coterie Children's Theatre
  Named by Time magazine “One of the five best theaters for young audiences in the US.” Located in Crown Center in downtown Kansas City, Mo.
• Folly Jazz Series
  Named for the Folly Theatre in which they are presented, the Folly Jazz Series is eagerly anticipated and usually sold out.
• The Grand Emporium
  Features both national and regional blues, reggae, rock, zydeco, jazz and swing seven nights a week. It has twice been honored as "Best Blues Club in America" by the Blues Foundation.     The Harriman-Jewell Series at William Jewell College
  Nationally recognized arts program and Education Series in Liberty, Missouri. Has featured Luciano Pavarotti, Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, American Ballet Theatre and Broadway production of STOMP.
• Kansas City Ballet
  Offers an eclectic repertory from the traditional classics to contemporary ballets, including an annual performance of The Nutcracker.
• Kansas City Repertory Theatre
  Founded in 1964, the area’s premier fully professional resident theater company. Visit flagship Spencer Theatre located in the University of Missouri-Kansas City Performing Arts Center or the brand new Copaken Stage at the H&R Block Center in downtown Kansas City.
• Kansas City Symphony
  Season runs from early August through May, and features more than 25 separate programs.
• Lyric Opera of Kansas City
  One of the nation's premier regional opera companies, now in its 49th season with 91 different productions to its credit.
• New Theater Restaurant
  One of the Midwest’s premiere theatre restaurant experiences rated by The Wall Street Journal as “the best dinner theatre in the country.”
• Starlight Theatre
  Starlight Theater is the nation’s largest outdoor theater of its kind, seating approximately 8,000 on 14 acres in Swope Park (next to the KC Zoo). Broadway musicals and nationally touring concerts.
• Theatre League - Broadway Series at the Music Hall
  Presenting Broadway musicals, plays and new works, the Theater League enriches the lives of more than 300,000 theatergoers annually. 

Other Performing Arts

• Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
• Capital Federal Park at Sandstone, Bonner Springs, Kansas
• Civic Opera Theatre of Kansas City
• Friends of Chamber Music
• Gem Theater Cultural and Performing Arts Center
• Heart of America Shakespeare Festival
• Kansas City Chamber Orchestra
• Kansas City Chorale
• Kansas Expocenter
• Kansas City Jazz Ambassadors
• Madrid Theater
• Midland Theatre
• Missouri Valley Folklife Society
• Quality Hill Playhouse
• Topeka Performing Arts Center
• Topeka Symphony Orchestra
• UMKC Conservatory of Music Signature Series
• Unicorn Theatre
• University of Kansas Lied Center
• Young Audiences
• Youth Symphony Association of Kansas City