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September 14, 2022

World-Renowned Conductor Marin Alsop Leads the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo in a Groundbreaking Performance

This October, the Harriman-Jewell Series presents a groundbreaking performance with the United States debut of the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo.
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September 13, 2022

A Robust Spectrum: Kansas City Underground Film Festival Starts Sept. 14

“Film is an integrating art and everything that happens in your life, or the stimuli you receive, influences your films,” says Arturo Dueñas Herrero, whose Pessoas, a bittersweet travelogue, plays at the Kansas City Underground Film Festival.
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September 12, 2022

Traveling Giacometti exhibit coming to Nelson-Atkins in 2023

If you happen to be visiting the Seattle Art Museum before Oct. 9, 2022, you will have a chance to preview “Alberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure” before it lands at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in March 2023.
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September 8, 2022

The American Jazz Museum at 25: ‘The Realization of a Dream’

IOver 25 years, the American Jazz Museum has endured. Not only has it endured and prospered but it is positioned and prepared to make the next 25 years even better.
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September 7, 2022

Artist to Watch: Stephonne Singleton

There may not be a more colorful singer/songwriter/performer in town than Stephonne Singleton.
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September 6, 2022

At KC Melting Pot Theatre, It’s All About Forward Momentum

This month marks a first in the history of Kansas City theater — a local playwright will see three of his works published by an internationally respected publishing house in a single volume.
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September 6, 2022

See Hear: Steve Paul on Rambling Around the Arts | Kansas City Jazz had a Devoted Champion in Riff Artist Stanley Crouch

The late cultural critic Stanley Crouch was an irascible provocateur known as much for his intellectual jousting and contrariness as for the elegance and verbal horsepower of his written voice.
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August 31, 2022

Celebrate AMERI’KANA Music & Arts Festival: Bringing Communities Together

The eighth Celebrate AMERI’KANA Music & Arts Festival, scheduled for Sept. 10 at Crossroads KC at Grinder’s, looks to be the most ambitious yet in support of Black, Indigenous, immigrant and Latino music and culture in Kansas City.
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August 30, 2022

Upcoming Theater Season is Challenging, Diverse and Socially Relevant

Productions include "Hamilton," "The Color Purple," Lydia R. Diamond's "Toni Stone," August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson" and the first full production of "Flood," by Mashuq Mushtag Deen.
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