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The Coterie Theatre
2450 Grand Boulevard, Suite 144 ref: The Coterie Theatre — address at Crown Center (opens in a new tab)
This place is inside the area that ordinance 260705 rezones for the ballpark district. What the ordinance does.
No announcement on the record.
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As of April 2026, asked directly what would happen to SEA LIFE, the LEGOLAND Discovery Center and Kaleidoscope, a Crown Center spokesperson said developers were still working on plans, so there were no specifics to share this early. ref: KSHB: Answering your questions about Royals ballpark plan at Crown Center (2026-04-23) — "no specifics to share this early" (opens in a new tab)
About the place
The Coterie Theatre was founded in 1979 by Judith Yeckel and Vicky Lee, two graduate theatre students at UMKC. site: The Coterie Theatre: History (opens in a new tab)
It is based on Level 1 of the Crown Center shops, within the Hallmark complex. site: The Coterie Theatre: History (opens in a new tab)
In its first 40 years the Coterie gave more than 13,000 mainstage performances of 285 productions, playing to about 2.2 million people. site: The Coterie Theatre: History (opens in a new tab)
In 2017 it served more than 100,000 students and families in a single season through mainstage shows, classes, in-school workshops and community outreach. site: The Coterie Theatre: History (opens in a new tab)
TIME magazine has ranked the Coterie among the top five theatres serving families and young audiences in the United States, and Travel + Leisure listed it among the country's top ten children's theatres. site: The Coterie Theatre: History (opens in a new tab)
The Coterie won a Lila Wallace–Reader's Digest Award in 1995 for the world premiere of "Alicia in Wonder Tierra," and its 1999 production of "The Wrestling Season" transferred to the Kennedy Center. site: The Coterie Theatre: History (opens in a new tab)