We're Located at 9601 Metcalf Avenue on the Southeast Corner of 95th & Metcalf in Overland Park, KS 66204

We are on the Metcalf Side Inside the Metcalf South Mall. Park by Gifts and Accents. Use the main mall doors to the left of Gifts and Accents to enter the mall. Inside the mall go down the hall to the fountain and take a left!  We'll see you here!

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We're Located at 9601 Metcalf Avenue on the Southeast Corner of 95th & Metcalf in Overland Park, KS 66204

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The Martin City Melodrama Company
Jeanne M. Beechwood,  Founder Artistic Director
Kattie Post, Associate Director

The Martin City Melodrama & Vaudeville Company is a live, professional theater company incorporated as a Missouri Not-For-Profit Corporation, qualified as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.  Donations to the Company are fully tax-exempt.  

The Company produces original adaptations of literary classics in the historical melodrama style.  In addition, the Company recreates musical revues staged as historical vaudeville shows.  The Company also performs fractured fairy tale operettas.

The Company also runs a very successful program called Komedy Kidstitute for Kids! The Komedy Kidstitute Summer Kamp is a 2-week camp teaching children the melodrama and vaudeville art form as well as allowing them the opportunity to produce their own show! There is also a spring and fall session of Komedy Kidstitute Klasses that teaches the melodrama and vaudeville art forms to children as well as allowing them the opportunity to perform in their own show!    

The Company produces the Forgotten American Musical Series, bringing to the stage rarely done American musical classics such as The Marx Brothers in COCOANUTS.      

Martin City, Jr. is our children's theatre that began in the fall of 2003. Two shows are produced, in the spring and summer, at our theatre and numerous assemblies and workshops are conducted throughout the school year at various locations in the greater Kansas City area.

Martin City, Jr. was chosen as one of the leading innovative children’s theatres in the U.S. as they were one of two children’s theatres invited to perform in the New York International Fringe Festival in New York City in August of 2006. One reviewer referred to our productions as "learning through laughter" and that continues to be our motto at Martin City, Jr.

Jeanne M. Beechwood founded the Company on October 2, 1985.  The Company performs year-round with six (6) main-stage productions (two of them from the Martin City Jr. Division), two Komedy Kidstitute Classes, and one Komedy Kidstitute Summer Camp children’s production.

The Company performed for 16 years in our original facility, now closed, at 13440 Holmes Road, the corner of 135th & Holmes in Martin City (south Kansas City), Missouri.  Forced to leave because of the building’s deterioration, the Company independently produced its shows at such venues as the Farris Opera House in Richmond, Missouri, and the Mabee Theatre on the campus of Rockhurst University until relocating at its present facility in the Metcalf South Shopping Center, 95th & Metcalf, Overland Park, Kansas.


The Company has produced only family entertainment since its inception.  Season attendance averages 35,000+ patrons (and growing) per year.  The Company has always been fully supported by its earned revenues, a distinguishing feature among not-for-profit theaters.