EPR Properties (EPR) 10-K 2013 FY Annual report

EXHIBIT 23

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Board of Trustees

EPR Properties:

We consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statements (Form S-3 No. 333-165517 pertaining to the Dividend Reinvestment and Direct Shares Purchase Plan, Form S-8 No. 333-76625 and Form S-8 No. 333-159465 pertaining to the 1997 Share Incentive Plan, Form S-8 No. 333-142831 pertaining to the 2007 Equity Incentive Plan, Form S-4 No. 333-78803, as amended, pertaining to the shelf registration of 3,600,000 common shares and Form S-3 No. 333-189023 for an undetermined amount of securities) of EPR Properties of our reports dated February 28, 2014, with respect to the consolidated balance sheets of EPR Properties and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2013 and 2012, and the related consolidated statements of income, comprehensive income, changes in equity, and cash flows, for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2013, and the related financial statement schedules listed in Item 15 (2) of the Form 10-K, and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2013, which reports appear in the December 31, 2013 Annual Report on Form 10-K of EPR Properties.

/s/ KPMG LLP

Kansas City, Missouri

February 28, 2014