Kansas City Events Calendar
2:00pm
Theater
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Ten spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a hilarious Broadway musical, featuring a local professional cast and live on-stage orchestra.
2:00pm
Theater
Designing Women
Designing Women hilariously revives the beloved TV series, bringing its sharp Southern charm to the present. As their Atlanta design firm faces trouble, Julia, Suzanne, Mary Jo, and Charlene must decide whether to fight or part ways in this quick-witted…
2:00pm
Theater
The Color Purple
Spencer Theatre - Kansas City Repertory Theatre
Indulge in a world of soul-stirring music and unyielding hope with The Color Purple, the award-winning stage musical based on Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.With a rich score blending gospel, jazz, and blues, The Color Purple is a celebration of…
2:00pm
Theater
A Wrinkle In Time
Joining forces with her baby brother Charles Wallace, friend and neighbor Calvin O’Keefe, and the celestial beings Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which, she must battle the forces of evil in order to rescue her father, save humanity, and…
2:00pm
Theater
Deathtrap
One of the longest running Broadway thrillers of all time comes to Kansas City audiences in August with Ira Levin’s seminal comedy-thriller, Deathtrap. A play that is “two-thirds a thriller and one-third a devilishly clever comedy” (Cue Magazine), will see a washed-up writer…
4:00pm
Theater
A Wrinkle In Time
Joining forces with her baby brother Charles Wallace, friend and neighbor Calvin O’Keefe, and the celestial beings Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which, she must battle the forces of evil in order to rescue her father, save humanity, and…
8:00pm
Theater
Life of Pi
Based on Yann Martel’s best-selling novel that sold more than 15 million copies and became a worldwide phenomenon, the play Life of Pi is an epic story of perseverance and hope that speaks to every generation and “gives new life…
All Day
Visual Arts
Andrea Carlson: Shimmer on Horizons
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Andrea Carlson (Grand Portage Ojibwe/European descent, b. 1979; based in northern Minnesota and Chicago, IL) considers how landscapes are shaped by history, relationships, and power. Her artworks imagine places that are “everywhere and nowhere,” visualizing these shifting yet ever-present dynamics…
