(816) 513 - 8980
3051 Central in Penn Valley Park
Kansas City, MO 64141
Just off Broadway Theatre
3051 Central in Penn Valley Park
P.O. Box 411653
Kansas City, MO 64141
Part of our mission is to provide a high quality, low cost location for small, sometimes struggling groups to produce their shows/events and showcase their skills. We are a 501 (c) 3 company and depend on the support of our community. Please consider making a donation.
January 17 - February 3, 2019
A new play by Eve Ensler
Spinning Tree
The secret life of girls around the world.
February 15 - March 2, 2019
Five Black Women from Missouri. Friendship, Wine, Laughter, Tears, and Secrets. What happens when unexpected time travel takes them back to a 1940's boarding house…
March 21 - March 24, 2019
A different time is evoked in this marvelously theatrical and winning show, a live broadcast of a The Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade from the Hotel Astor's Algonquin Room on December 21, 1942…
Elton John (music) and Lee Hall (book and lyrics) adapted the Universal Pictures/Studio Canal film into the winner of 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Follow Billy’s journey from boxing ring to ballet class, where he discovers a passion for dance that unites his family…
Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro is an avant-garde one-act drama about a young African American college student named Negro Sarah who desperately wishes that she was white…
These are staged readings of two short plays (on the same night): Flo and The Journey by Peggy Jones. Flo is about African American Civial Rights activist and attorney Florence Kennedy.
Café Blaque, is a love story about two people that meet at their local café: It’s Coffee Time Café. Micheal Black is a tall dark and handsome lawyer. Owner of Micheal Black’s law firm. He has been suffering in…
This class will focus on: scene study, falling easily into character, falling quickly into emotions, the ability to transition emotions, monologuing without tiring, improving improv abilities, and more!
The 15th annual Fringe Festival KC: where adventurous audiences meet adventurous artists. This 14-day explosion of unjuried, uncensored performing and visual arts features performers and creators from all over- local, national and international.
All shows and reviews
The Kansas City Nerdlesque Festival celebrates the art of burlesque and all things nerdy. A combination of a comic-con and a burlesque festival, KCNF brings nerds of all shapes, sizes, and shades together to share their fandoms in the sexiest way…
What better way to celebrate Whitney Houston's birthday, than to present a replay of the Whitney Houston Tribute! And in 2018 we brought an amazing Tribute show featuring our favorite songs from New Edition. We are bringing this back in August as a continuation on behalf of Black Music Month.
Like the sound of a penny rolling around in an empty can, so does Melinda find her heart after years of abuse from her husband!
Melinda has found herself in a marriage that is filled with heartache and pain. What will she do to escape the continued abuse of her husband?
What does it take to awaken from bigotry?
This is a script in hand performance of the musical play WOKE.
Sept. 20th - Oct. 5th, 2019
King Hedley II takes place in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1985. It’s set in the backyard of a once flourishing neighborhood now falling apart due to urban decay. King Hedley II, recently released from a prison stint, returns to society with no formal education or job prospects…
Celebrate 8 with Mid-Life Players! Enjoy an evening of musical selections from each of MLPs productions over the years from the past 16 shows performed by 24 artists. Two nights only! You don't want to miss this unique retrospective concert.
Sunday, Oct 27th at 6:00pm
We are now partnering with KC Melting Pot Theatre to bring you this monthly poetry event. Enjoy an evening of wine, light snacks and poetry, featuring "The Recipe". This month showcases the 2nd part of the Semple Stories series by Langston Hughes…
This full-length, two-act play centers around Vassily Kandinsky, known as the “founder” of modern abstract art. Kandinsky and the Blue Rider arts movement of which he was a leader, were considered “degenerate artists” by the Nazis, and their art was suppressed and stolen.…
The heroic story of Buffalo Soldier, Pvt. Wayne Miner, who valiantly volunteered to take ammunition to the front line during WWI when fellow soldiers refused. Breaking the chains of fear and death, guided by his mother's spirit and upholding the Buffalo Soldier creed…
Sunday, Nov. 24th at 6:00pm
Enjoy an evening of wine, light snacks and poetry, featuring "The Recipe". This month showcases the 3rd part of the Semple Stories series by Langston Hughes. The Semple Stories is performed live as a miniseries is history making history so don't miss out.
Ntozake Shange’s ground breaking choreopoem, For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf is the playwright’s first and most widely produced…
FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE
CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE
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Introducing Game Time with Sosha Oshaye Season 2! Artists of all genres will come together to compete for a prize package worth over $2000! Don't miss some of the best talents in Kansas City! Game Time is a competitive event for performing artists looking to…
