Witch trials, civil rights & a murder mystery to feature in KC Rep’s next season
The Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s 2026-27 season announced Monday will have a little bit of everything.
The five-show schedule will begin in September with the 2017 Broadway hit musical “Come From Away,” which played in 2024 at Starlight Theatre, and will conclude in May with the British farce, “The Play That Goes Wrong.”
In between are “John Proctor Is the Villain,” a modern, comedic reimagining of “The Crucible” that ran on Broadway in 2025, and “Fannie: The Life and Music of Fannie Lou Hamer,” which draws on civil rights history to tell a true-life story.
And, of course, the KC Rep season will feature its traditional holiday production of “A Christmas Carol” for the 45th year — this time without its longtime Scrooge, Gary Johnson.
Season-ticket packages starting at $54 are on sale now at kcrep.org. Single tickets will go on sale July 15.
Kansas City Repertory Theatre 2026-27 season
‘Come From Away’
Sept. 1-20, Spencer Theater
The Tony Award-winning musical recounts how nearly 7,000 airline passengers were grounded in a small Canadian town after 9/11. It will be presented during the 25th anniversary of the attacks.
‘John Proctor Is the Villain’
Oct. 6-25, Copaken Stage
Set in a high school classroom in a small Georgia town, this play follows five female students studying the Salem Witch Trials and how they discover parallels to their own lives.
‘A Christmas Carol’
Nov. 21-Dec. 24, Spencer Theater
One of Kansas City’s favorite holiday traditions for more than four decades, KC Rep’s production of the Dickens classic returns with Ebenezer Scrooge, the Cratchits, Tiny Tim, and the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.
‘Fannie: The Life and Music of Fannie Lou Hamer’
Feb. 16-March 7, 2027, Copaken Stage
This one-woman play tells the music-filled story of American civil rights hero Fannie Lou Hamer, the daughter of a Mississippi sharecropper who co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in 1964.
‘The Play That Goes Wrong’
May 4-23, 2027, Spencer Theater
Everything that can go wrong does go wrong during a theater company’s opening performance of a murder mystery in this farce that played on Broadway (2017-19) and has run in London since 2012.
