Nightclubs in Kansas City

Plush is Kansas City's most beloved independent live music venue — a Westport neighborhood club presenting indie, alternative, and electronic acts in an intimate 400-person environment. Kansas City's extraordinary jazz heritage (Charlie Parker, Count Basie, and the Kansas City jazz style emerged here) creates a music culture that values live performance with unusual seriousness and depth.

Power & Light District is Kansas City's most ambitious entertainment development — a multiple-block downtown complex of bars, restaurants, and entertainment venues that draws KC Chiefs and Royals game-day crowds and creates a year-round entertainment destination. The district's outdoor venues, live music stages, and density of bars create the most consistently active entertainment environment in downtown Kansas City.

Kansas City's Crossroads Arts District supports the most exciting new music venues in the city — a neighborhood of galleries, restaurants, and live music bars that has become the center of contemporary KC creative culture. The Crossroads' extraordinary First Friday gallery walks and its concentration of independent creative businesses make it the most culturally vibrant entertainment district in Missouri's western anchor city.

Westport is Kansas City's most historically significant entertainment district — a 19th-century outfitting center for wagon trains headed west on the Santa Fe, Oregon, and California Trails, now transformed into one of KC's most vibrant entertainment neighborhoods. Westport's extraordinary frontier heritage and its contemporary concentration of outstanding bars and restaurants create a nightclub district of genuine Missouri entertainment historical significance.

Midland Theatre is Kansas City's most magnificent historic entertainment venue — a 1927 movie palace that has been restored to host major concerts and events in an ornate Beaux Arts interior. Its history as one of America's finest surviving movie palaces, combined with consistent booking of major touring acts across rock, pop, and hip-hop, makes it Kansas City's most beloved entertainment venue.