2026/2027
Season of Live Theatre
Electric Poe
A co-produced special event with
Union Cemetery Historical Society
Electric Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe
Adapted by R.H. Wilhoit
Just in time for Halloween, Electric Poe returns to thrill audiences inside and out!
Captivating audiences once again, Electric Poe will perform on stage at The Coterie for students and educators, SEP 14 – OCT 2. Then for the spooky season, it will perform outside in Union Cemetery for sunset performances for families, OCT 14 – NOV 1, 2026. One actor and one musician will bring the master of the macabre to life with superb acting accompanied by atmospheric underscoring in front of Union Cemetery’s “Holding Vault,” built in 1857 in Kansas City’s oldest public cemetery.
The Pigeon Gets a Big Time Holiday Extravaganza!
A Coterie Rolling World Premiere
The Pigeon
Gets a Big Time
Holiday Extravaganza!
Based on Books and Character by Mo Willems
Script and Lyrics by Mo Willems and Adam Tobin
Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma
Dramaturgy by Megan Alrutz
When Mo Willems’ characters get together for the holidays, it’s bound to be the biggest extravaganza ever!
The Unlimited Squirrels deck the halls and Elephant and Piggie come ready to celebrate! But will The Pigeon join in the festivities, or will he run all the way to the North Pole in search of the greatest gift ever? Terrific tunes, silly stories, goofy gifts, audience antics: it’s all in this brand-new musical party that sleighs!
JACKED! A Beanstalk Remix
JACKED!
A Beanstalk Remix
Written by Idris Goodwin
Jack and the Beanstalk gets a modern-day twist!
In this reimagined world, Jack and his mother struggle to live happily ever after. When his farm can’t feed him, his community can’t support him, and his mother can’t take care of him, Jack takes matters into his own hands. After climbing a newly discovered beanstalk and stealing the giant’s goose, Jack flees home and discovers the goose’s golden eggs have a mysterious, intoxicating power that turns his world upside down. How can something so good make everything bad? Can Jack turn things around to save his village?
The Gingerbread Kid
The Gingerbread Kid
Music by Jodi Marr
Book and Lyrics by Abe Reybold
Life is so SWEET in this pop music fairy tale frolic!
When the magical child of a baking couple accidentally eats all of their parents’ sweets, they run away as fast as they can from facing the consequences. As the race builds, Allspice meets a kooky cast of storybook favorites including Henny Penny and her gang, Little Boy Blue, and Foofinella, of Little Bunny Foo Foo fame. Will Allspice always be on the run? Or will a hungry fox stop them in their sugary tracks? A remix of the classic gingerbread man story for a whole new generation.
Madagascar - A Musical Adventure
The Coterie production of DreamWorks’
Madagascar
A Musical Adventure
Based on the Dreamworks Animation Motion Picture
Book by Kevin Del Aguila
Original Music and lyrics by George Noriega and Joel Someillan
Join Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe, Gloria the hip hip Hippo and, of course, those hilarious, plotting penguins as they bound onto your stage in the musical adventure of a lifetime!
Based on the smash DreamWorks animated motion picture, Madagascar – A Musical Adventure follows all of your favorite crack-a-lackin’ friends as they escape from their home in New York’s Central Park Zoo and find themselves on an unexpected journey to the madcap world of King Julien’s Madagascar.
PLUS!!!
THE RETURN OF TWO COTERIE SERIES:
Featuring:
Baby Rave (at Crown Center)
Baby Rave
It’s never too early to hit the dance floor!
Join us for Baby Rave: the ultimate morning dance party for babies and their grown-ups alike. The dance floor is swinging, the disco ball is swirling, and the DJ is spinning funky techno beats… but this is no sweaty, late night club. It’s Saturday morning in Crown Center, and the only drinks are in sippy cups, and the energetic dancers have to leave before nap time! This is Baby Rave!
Also Featuring:
Kidtropolis (Touring KC)
Kidtropolis
In a world where kids call all the shots, welcome to Kidtroplis: a city completely run by kids!
Join our guides as they take us on an adventure of imagination and creativity, building the world of tomorrow one kid suggestion at a time.
Featuring:
Electric Poe (at Union Cemetery)
A co-produced special event with
Union Cemetery Historical Society
Electric Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe
Adapted by R.H. Wilhoit
Just in time for Halloween, Electric Poe returns to Union Cemetery!
Captivating audiences once again, Electric Poe will perform on stage at The Coterie for students and educators, SEP 14 – OCT 2. Then for the spooky season, it will perform outside in Union Cemetery for sunset performances for families, OCT 14 – NOV 1, 2026. One actor and one musician will bring the master of the macabre to life with superb acting accompanied by atmospheric underscoring in front of Union Cemetery’s “Holding Vault,” built in 1857 in Kansas City’s oldest public cemetery.
Also Featuring:
Electric Renaissance
Electric Renaissance
One actor and one musician bring the Harlem Renaissance to life!
Some of our most prolific literary voices came out of the Harlem Renaissance like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. This show will reintroduce our audiences to some of their works and the truths of the time in which they lived, all with a contemporary twist.
Original production designs and illustrations by the Kansas City Art Institute Illustration Department’s student staffed agency, MICRO. Electric Poe design by Cory Williamson; Jacked! A Beanstalk Remix design by Dana Combate; The Gingerbread Kid design by Gabby Reynolds with title treatment by Serena Wilson; Madagascar – A Musical Adventure design by Lumi Cole; Baby Rave design by Finley Klein; Kidtropolis design by Gabby Reynolds; and Electric Renaissance design by Dana Combate.