KC STUDIO

May 28, 2017

Killers on Stage: “Assassins” at Spinning Tree Speaks to Our Crazed Present

Musical theater can be sappy, commercial, retro or infantile, but now and then the venerable genre produces a show unlike any that came before. Case..

May 27, 2017

When Movies Usurped the Stage: New Musical “Lefty & Crabbe” Looks Back

The Living Room steps out its customary role as a producer/presenter of work that challenges, stimulates and poses tough questions with the world premiere of..

May 25, 2017

Innovative Housing: Nurturing Artists and Neighborhoods

All too often, artists who breathe life back into comatose old neighborhoods are forced out when the revival spawns high rents. Some Kansas City artists have fallen victim to this cycle in the Crossroads and West Bottoms. Kansas City is working on several fronts to solve this problem, such as [...]

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May 25, 2017

Editor’s Weekend Calendar Picks, Memorial Day Weekend

Here are calendar picks from KC Studio editor Alice Thorson for Memorial Day weekend. This weekend is your last chance to see Kansas City Repertory..

May 24, 2017

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Harriman-Leavey Syndrome

As I mentioned to the company at the start of the first rehearsal for The Realistic Jones, I at first wasn’t sure how to dramaturg..

May 24, 2017

The Job: Trad A. Burns, Lighting Designer for Kansas City Ballet

When Devon Carney became Kansas City Ballet’s new artistic director in May 2013, one of the first decisions he made was to choose a lighting designer.

May 23, 2017

“PAINTALLICA: Worst Show Yet,” Leedy-Voulkos Art Center

“Worst Show Yet” is a junkyard orgy of collaborative art. Paintallica, an artist collective made up of more than 20 painters and sculptors, have transformed..

Articles

May 22, 2017

Tom Toro’s Take, May/June 2017

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.

May 19, 2017

9 Top Reasons to Use a Travel Advisor

Years ago, online travel resources were introduced to the marketplace. They instantly became popular and many traditional travel agencies took a hit. But travel agents..