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January 22, 2018

Arts News: Acclaimed Dance Theatre of Harlem Returns to Kansas City

Breaking boundaries since its inception in 1969, Dance Theatre of Harlem returns to Kansas City Feb. 9 for a performance at the Muriel Kauffman Theatre...

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January 18, 2018

Editor’s Weekend Calendar Picks, January 18 – 21

Time for weekend calendar picks from KC Studio editor Alice Thorson! Friday night, enjoy a review of music from the Ozarks and Honky Tonk classics..

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January 17, 2018

Arts News: Midtown Marvel

Welcome to 160,000 square feet of innovation. After five years of planning and negotiating, Plexpod Westport Commons, a millennial-styled center for business that encompasses community,..

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January 16, 2018

Tom Toro’s Take, January/February 2018

Tom Toro is a cartoonist and writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harvard Business Review and Audubon, among others. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, he now lives in KCMO with his wife, Marissa Wolf, a theatre artist who is the Director of New Works at KC Rep.

January 15, 2018

Spring Returns With Exciting Conservatory Performances, Including World-Renowned Sweet Honey in the Rock

After a cold winter break, the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance is back with more breathtaking performances throughout February, and there is truly something..

January 15, 2018

New JCCC Fine Arts & Design Studios: Extraordinarily Reimagined for the 21st Century

In February, a celebratory groundbreaking will launch construction for the new Johnson County Community College Fine Arts & Design Studios. The fulfillment of a vision..

January 15, 2018

Christopher Leitch — “chance diaries: dream things” at KCAI Crossroads Gallery

Kansas City artist Christopher Leitch is well known for his illustrated dream journals filled with funny, scary, bittersweet and personally revealing words and pictures. (KC Studio featured a selection of them in our July/August 2016 Artist Pages.) Coming up: Leitch will unveil a new twist on the dream journals concept in the exhibit, “chance diaries: dream things,” beginning Jan. 23 at the KCAI Crossroads Gallery.

January 14, 2018

Kansas City Actors Theatre’s ‘Sea Marks’ Elevated by Good Performances

Depictions of the Irish onstage come with a certain amount of stereotypical baggage — including the notion of Ireland as a place where poetry and..

January 12, 2018

DREAMS OF THE KINGS: A JADE SUIT FOR ETERNITY

If given the opportunity, would you live forever? It was certainly a desire of the ancient Chinese, who plotted their burial tombs as elaborate afterlife..