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KC Theater: The 2025-2026 Season

From the re-imagined classics to world premieres, must-see shows abound throughout the city.

Fall Visual Arts Roundup

Native contemporary exhibitions at area museums make for a blockbuster fall in the visual arts.

Top 10 Classical Music and Dance Picks for Fall

This season reflects on beloved music that permeates the culture, celebrates many of our favorite composers and artists, presents new work and exciting collaborations and honors many significant milestones for artists and organizations.

Reviews

Performing

Vice and Virtue: Kansas City Baroque Consortium celebrates Bach and friends

Kansas City Baroque Consortium (and friends) gave their audience a glimpse into the social life of Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries with the last concert of their 9th summer series.

Performing

At KCAT, “Uncle Vanya” Evokes Laughs and Tears in Equal Measure

KCAT’s Uncle Vanya is a stellar, faithful production of a classic told through a fresh lens.

Visual

“Deep-Fried Butter,” Plug Gallery

The exhibit “Deep-Fried Butter” is primarily inspired by observations about MAGA-driven leadership and politics.

Arts News | Heartland Song Network: Investing in the future of local music

The third Sunday of every month PH Coffee, 2200 Lexington Ave., presents Heartland Song Network’s Songwriter’s Sanctuary.

Kansas City Underground Film Festival Celebrates its Sixth Year of Challenging Festival-Goers’ Perception of ‘Underground’

This year’s program features a total of 89 titles culled from 787 submissions from 48 countries.

Arts Consortium

Literary

This year’s Heartland Book Festival is back with even more to love

This fall, the Kansas City Public Library and Missouri Humanities have again teamed up to offer the region a free day of literary events.

Arts Consortium

Step into the spirit of Japan at the 27th Annual Greater Kansas City Japan Festival

The upcoming 27th Annual Greater Kansas City Japan Festival is your ticket to the vibrant culture, rich traditions and dynamic energy of Japan, to experience here in the heart of metropolitan Kansas City.

Visual

Linda Lighton: Love & War, A Fifty-Year Survey, 1975-2025

For fifty years, American artist Linda Lighton has created a powerful body of subversive ceramic sculptures that explore desire in all its complex forms.