If you've ever thought, “Say, I'd like to support higher education in Kansas while also laughing and having a good time,” you are just the audience member Gridiron is looking for. This Wichita tradition has been putting musical sketch comedy sk

On Stage: 'Waitress' Is About Breaking Free

Feb 24th, 2020 2m 46s

Nothing says spring is on the way like a musical, and Waitress is a musical that is all about growth and change.

On Stage in February

Jan 27th, 2020 1m 54s

Whether you are blissfully wedded or still pitching woo, the Wichita Grand Opera offers a Valentine's Day celebration unlike any other you'll find in the city.

On Stage: Stoppard's 'Leopoldstadt' Is His Most Personal Work

Jan 13th, 2020 1m 46s

You could be forgiven if you thought Tom Stoppard, at the age of 81, had given up writing for the stage, but you would also be wrong. Leopoldstadt is his latest and is set in 1900 Vienna, the Jewish quarter, and follows the fortunes of a succes

On Stage In January: 'Bandstand'

Dec 30th, 2019 2m 46s

When words are not enough, we turn to music to express our deepest, most complicated feelings. Bandstand , an original musical composed by Richard Oberacker, with lyrics and book by Oberacker with Robert Taylor, is just such a musical. Set in p

This Season Of Holiday Shows On Stage

Dec 16th, 2019 1m 52s

Tickets are going very fast for A Very Crown Christmas , onstage at The Crown Uptown. For the price of admission, audience members will select a buffet dinner, then see a musical revue that features the talents of several of our city's favorite

On Stage: Holiday Laughs

Dec 2nd, 2019 1m 51s

As we round the corner of Thanksgiving and head straight into the holiday season, you may be wondering how you're going to manage the sudden influx of calories, but fear not! Studies have shown that an hour of hearty laughter burns around 100 c

On Stage: Ballet, Singing & Cheesy Movies!

Nov 4th, 2019 1m 47s

Fans of science fiction and humor will be pleased to know the Orpheum Theatre is host to Mystery Science Theater 3000 Live: The Great Cheesy Movie Circus Tour . Based on the Peabody Award-winning television hit, the show features original host

On Stage This November

Oct 21st, 2019 1m 49s

Wichita State University's Opera Theater is teaming up with the university’s Wind Ensemble for the semi-stage premiere of The Path to Heaven . This one-act opera follows the changing fortunes of a family fighting to make it through the Holocaus

On Stage: 'Anything Goes'

Oct 7th, 2019 2m 46s

From Wichita State University comes the Cole Porter musical Anything Goes , directed by guest artist Bradley Allan Zarr. The idea for a musical set on board an ocean liner came from producer Vinton Freedley. Freedley had left the U.S. to avoid

On Stage This Fall

Sep 23rd, 2019 2m 46s

The Wichita Grand Opera is open for single tickets beginning Oct. 1. Their 2019-20 season includes All is Calm, The Christmas Truce of 1914; a Valentine-themed Big Band night; Don Giovanni; and Candide .

On Stage: The History Of 'Cats'

Sep 9th, 2019 2m 47s

Andrew Lloyd Webber composed the score for Cats in 1977, setting to music the poems from T.S. Eliot's “Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats,” published in 1939. Cats began life in 1980 as Practical Cats , a song cycle, which is a set of individu

On Stage: 'Love Me Or Leave Me'

Aug 26th, 2019 1m 42s

WSU hits the ground running with Second Stage Theatre's production of Love Me or Leave Me , the 2019 winner of the Wichita State University Playwriting Contest. The competition was founded by Dr. Bela Kiralyfalvi in 1974, when he was a professo

On Stage: At The Kechi Playhouse And At Roxy's

Aug 12th, 2019 1m 53s

The Kechi Playhouse is putting Living on Love onstage Fridays through Sundays from September 6 to the 29 th . This two-act farce from Joe DiPietro is actually a re-working of the play Peccadillo , by Garson Kanin.

On Stage: In The Heights

Jul 29th, 2019 2m 33s

Music Theatre Wichita is closing out its season with the much-anticipated production of I n the Heights , the award-winning musical with lyrics and score by Lin-Manuel Miranda and book by Quiara Alegria Hudes.

On Stage: Neil Diamond Musical

Jul 15th, 2019 2m 47s

Over time, the jukebox musical has gathered strength in its ability to entertain through nostalgia and solid scores of pop hits.

On Stage This Month; And Celebrating 5 Years

Jul 1st, 2019 1m 52s

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage, who won for Ruined in 2007 and Sweat in 2017, is the 2020 honoree for the Distinguished Achievement in American Theater Award, presented annually by the William Inge Theater Festival in I

On Stage: 'A Chorus Line'

Jun 17th, 2019 2m 48s

In July of 1975, a musical unlike any Broadway had seen before made its debut at the Shubert Theatre: A Chorus Line , directed by Michael Bennett, who also was co-choreographer for the show with Bob Avian. The musical is based on interviews wit

On Stage: Local Theater

Jun 3rd, 2019 1m 50s

Just in time for Riverfest is Mosley Street Melodrama's production of Gone with the Windwagon , an original script by local writer Carol Hughes that follows the tides of changing fortune for one Miss Annie Bellum.

On Stage: Riverfest's 'Festival Of Broadway'

May 20th, 2019 1m 53s

Riverfest is upon us: nine straight days of fun in our river city, from May 31 to June 8, with events designed to appeal to a variety of tastes.

On Stage: 'The Sound Of Music'

May 6th, 2019 2m 30s

The Sound of Music is the last musical written by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. Nine months after it premiered on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in 1959, Oscar Hammerstein died from stomach cancer. The show was nomin

On Stage: 'Beautiful' And 'Rock Opera!'

Apr 22nd, 2019 2m 48s

If you were alive and cognizant in 1971 and 1972, you probably owned the album “Tapestry,” by Carole King, or you knew someone who did.

On Stage: 'Avenue Q'

Apr 8th, 2019 1m 54s

Although Avenue Q was inspired by shows beloved by children such as Sesame Street and The Muppets , and although more than twice as many puppets than humans are featured characters, Avenue Q is definitely not a show for youngsters.

On Stage: One-Act Operas

Mar 25th, 2019 2m 46s

While most one-act operas have a shorter running time than operas with two or more acts, there are exceptions, notably Wagner's Das Rheingold , which runs more than two-and-a-half hours, and Salome , by Strauss, which plays for almost two hours