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. Jeanne M. Beechwood, Founder Jon Copeland, Associate Artistic Director.
Jeanne M. Beechwood founded the Company on October 2, 1985. The Company performs year-round with six (6) main-stage productions and one Komedy for Kids’ 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.
