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December 1, 2016

Shakespeare Festival Celebrates 25 Years with 25 Community Events

For 25 years, The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival has thrown its light on starlit evenings in Southmoreland Park, in summer camps and classroom programs..
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November 29, 2016

Forrest Attaway: A Rebel Deserving Applause

Rogue. Nomad. Rebel. These labels describe the slightly larger-than-life persona of Forrest Attaway, an itinerant actor who drifted into town back in 2007. But they also describe many of the roles he’s played on Kansas City stages in the last nine years — by which he established himself as one of the city’s best actors.
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November 25, 2016

Victorian Photos Capture Children and Their Toys

The bond between child and toy is special, and this holiday season The National Museum of Toys and Miniatures is celebrating that bond with a..
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November 23, 2016

The Nutcracker

KC Studio staff photographer Jim Barcus captures the magic of the Kansas City Ballet’s reimagined Nutcracker. CategoriesArticles Performing
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November 21, 2016

The Art of Christmas Ornaments

Christmas ornaments first emerged in the early 1800s in the form of fruit, a tradition representing the certainty that life would return in the spring...
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November 21, 2016

Concert to Come – In War & Peace: Harmony through Music

Acclaimed mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato returns to the Harriman-Jewell Series for a concert promoting peace.
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November 17, 2016

Honors: Eddie Moore

Since its inception in 1997, the Charlotte Street Foundation has noticed and honored this heritage, most recently by awarding a 2016 $10,000 Generative Performing Artist Award to pianist, composer, educator and band leader Eddie Moore.
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November 14, 2016

Exhibit of 1930s Woodcuts Illumines Depression-Era Collecting in KC

“Originality, Simplicity, Freedom of Expression, and above all Sincerity, with a clean cut block, are characteristics of a good wood block print.” These are the..
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November 10, 2016

Susan Schmelzer on Arts Policy: Art and Literature Offer Election Season Therapy

Since this column is written two months in advance of publication, I feel safe in saying that, as you read it, we’ll have endured the most distasteful, degrading and vacuous campaign season most of us, having not been around for Jefferson vs. Adams in 1800, can recall.
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