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March 20, 2022

“The Royale” at KCRep Is an Elegant Exploration of Physical, Emotional, and Social Violence

“The Royale” is a powerful, exquisitely produced piece of theater and (unfortunately never not timely) social commentary.
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March 15, 2022

At the Unicorn Theatre, “Tiny Beautiful Things” is a Welcome Exercise in Radical Empathy

What might it feel like to actually listen to each other? To hear another’s story of love or loss or confusion or fear, and respond not by looking away or closing off, but by opening up?
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March 9, 2022

Fishtank’s “Spilled Milk” Is a Remarkably Original Piece of Art

Fishtank Theatre’s “Spilled Milk” is a self-described “choreopoem”—a combination of poetry, movement, and more straightforward prose—beautifully tackling death and grief.
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March 7, 2022

“James Woodfill: Stereophonic / Semaphoric,” Haw Contemporary

Closer to our near-post-pandemic moment, eminent Kansas City artist and educator Jim Woodfill busted out of his studio in a big way.
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March 7, 2022

Friends of Chamber Music Beethoven Festival with the Morgenstern Trio

The Friends of Chamber Music Kansas City was finally able to present its long-delayed first annual Beethoven Festival, featuring the Morgenstern Trio. Originally planned in conjunction with Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th anniversary during the 2020/2021 season, the experience was a warm, inviting exploration of this intimate chamber music genre.
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March 2, 2022

“An Artist at Home in America: Michael Mardikes’ Photographs of Thomas Hart Benton,” Kansas City Public Library Central Library

A startling discovery was the inspiration for the exhibition, “An Artist at Home in America: Michael Mardikes’ Photographs of Thomas Hart Benton” on view at the Kansas City Public Library Central Library.
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February 28, 2022

Fishtank’s “Collective Rage” Is a Creative, Provocative Marvel

"Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties" is the story of five characters named Betty with a complex web of relationships between them.
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February 25, 2022

“The Soul of Jazz: An American Adventure,” American Jazz Museum

In December of last year, while news of a new COVID-19 variant was dominating the headlines, something very special happened at the American Jazz Museum.
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February 18, 2022

“Smalls” by Mark Westervelt, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center

In his exhibit “Smalls,” Mark Westervelt gives us 400 examples of how the ordinary, the discarded, even the disgusting, can be transformed into magical, aesthetic delights. ​
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