KC STUDIO

December 14, 2022

The Living Room’s “Milking Christmas” Is an Uproariously Original Bit of Holiday Madness

The cast is working off an incredible script but it’s their capacity for spontaneity that really allows the work to shine.

December 12, 2022

“RE: Gen ‘Rejoin’,” The Gallery at HJ’s

“Rejoin,” an exhibit at the gallery at HJ's Youth & Community Center, represents the coming together of nine women artists in the Re: Gen group for the first time since the onset of the pandemic.

December 10, 2022

Kansas City Ballet’s “The Nutcracker” is a Glorious Holiday Gift

So as not to beat around the magically growing Christmas tree, let’s be crystal clear: what follows are the many ways the Kansas City Ballet’s The Nutcracker is absolute perfection.

December 7, 2022

‘Lindsay Hughes Cooper: A Portrait’ by Lindsay Major

If you have a local history buff on your gift list, check out Lindsay Major’s “Lindsay Hughes Cooper: A Portrait.” an engaging account of the extraordinary role played by her aunt, Lindsay Hughes Cooper, in the early days of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

December 6, 2022

Kansas City Author’s New Book of Prose and Poetry Brings Urgency and Insight to Our Troubled Times

Andrew Michael Johnson’s enthralling “The Thread” is two books in one: a poetry collection and a series of prose pieces.

December 5, 2022

The Kansas City Chorale presents “A Christmas Carol”

The Kansas City Chorale offered a new approach to Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” for narrator and choir.

December 5, 2022

Young Kansas Pianist Spreads Goodwill from Kansas City to India

Aaram Salam was 11 when he figured out that he could not only connect with strangers through playing the piano but make their lives brighter.

December 5, 2022

Lawrence artist launches NFT project addressing the future of art

Richard Klocke always gravitated to the conceptual aspects of art making. “I see how artists work with ideas,” Klocke explained from his tidy North Lawrence studio.

November 30, 2022

Lewis Morrow: Masterful Portraits of Black Life

In the Kansas City playwright's trilogy of the intense family dramas, Blackness is something active.