KC STUDIO

September 9, 2019

An American Classic Slated for Two KC Productions This Fall

Ntozake Shange, a playwright, poet and novelist who died last October, was only the second African-American woman to see her work produced on Broadway. That 1976 theater piece — which Shange described as a “choreopoem” — was “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf.”

September 9, 2019

The Arts Asylum – Jesus Christ Superstar

The Arts Asylum and This Happy Breed are coming together this fall for Jesus Christ Superstar, their first joint production. The production, directed by Kyle..

September 6, 2019

Family Bliss

Opening the Lyric Opera’s 2019-2020 season is Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio. This risqué rom-com is an exciting start to the season, with a production set in the glamour of 1940s Hollywood. What makes it even more exciting is that Prairie Village native Ben Bliss will grace his home stage for the very first time, alongside his mother, Judy Bliss, a longtime member of the Lyric Opera Chorus.

September 6, 2019

Arts News: Charlotte Street Announces Capsule Performance Space Events

Charlotte Street Foundation never rests. The organization has begun construction on its new headquarters at 3333 Wyoming St. in the Roanoke neighborhood and announced the 32 artists for its 2019-20 Studio Residency Program in the Town Pavilion building downtown.

Community News

September 6, 2019

Flying Through 40 Years of Gladfest Fun

Since 1980, the Gladstone Area Chamber of Commerce, in cooperation with the City of Gladstone, has organized Gladfest for their fall festival. Some of the..

September 5, 2019

Honors: David Wayne Reed

David Wayne Reed might best be described as a genre-busting conceptual artist whose work defies easy classification. Playwright, actor, filmmaker, storyteller — he wears these hats and others. But in the beginning, he was a man of the stage — a founding member of Late Night Theatre who performed, directed and contributed scripts to the gender-bending, genre-hybridizing theater company.

September 4, 2019

Kansas City Jazz Orchestra Begins Its 17th Season

Ask anybody what Kansas City is known for, and most will answer, “Jazz and barbecue!” You’ve probably had a lot of barbecue, but how often..

September 3, 2019

Small Vibrant Windows on an American Dream Defined by Gold

Gold. Forever a symbol of wealth and human desire, it’s also a source of folly and madness. It has been a catalyst of enormous historical force. It can spell cataclysm and doom. And, beginning in September, it’s the subtext of a haunting exhibit of historical photographs at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

September 3, 2019

Artist Pages: 25 Kemper Watchers Pick 25 Favorites

Oct. 2 marks the 25th anniversary of the 1994 opening of Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, and a quarter century of exhibitions and acquisitions that..