About Us

The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts offers the opportunity for diverse groups of visitors from throughout the Kansas City region, across the country, and around the world to experience and enjoy a wide range of performing arts experiences in one of the most technically and architecturally perfect performing arts centers in the world.

The Kauffman Center is for everyone

The Kauffman Center has one overriding vision—to enrich the lives of everyone in our community through extraordinary and diverse performing arts experiences. A world-class team of architects, acousticians, theater designers and other technical experts is creating a state-of-the-art performance venue, featuring the very latest technology in acoustics, theater and lighting equipment, staging and sightlines, and comfortable ergonomic seating.

Featuring a diverse range of performances

The center will include a 1,600-seat concert hall and a 1,800-seat proscenium theatre, and will be the performance home for the Kansas City Symphony, the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and the Kansas City Ballet. The Kauffman Center will also feature a diverse range of performances in both halls including dance and music of all types from pop to rock, light classical to country, jazz groups to bands, and gospel to folk music, as well as smaller Broadway and off-Broadway touring productions.

At the heart of the entertainment district

Conveniently located near the Kansas City Power & Light District, Crossroads Arts District, the Sprint Center, and the many other new dining and entertainment options in downtown Kansas City, a visit to the Kauffman Center will mean not just a visit to a performance, but an entire evening of entertainment, with a variety of pre- and post-performance entertainment activities.

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