Category: Performing
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For Art, Music and Poetry, Check Out First Friday in the 18th and Vine Jazz District
Reasserting its position as the heart of musical and African-American culture in KC, the 18th and Vine Jazz District offers a lively selection of music and art on First Fridays, and with the warm months upon us, the action once again moves outdoors. The scene was lively last fall, featuring countless music groups and solo acts with a wide variety of jazz styles.
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Nathan Darrow to Play Hamlet at This Year’s Shakespeare Fest
Nathan Darrow is coming for the summer. The Shawnee Mission North graduate who plied his trade as a professional actor on local stages from 2003 through 2009 has found remarkable success on television since relocating to New York. A graduate of the University of Evansville and New York University, Darrow made an indelible impression as Meechum, the taciturn bodyguard for Kevin Spacey’s murderous Frank Underwood on “House of Cards,” the Netflix series.
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OCTA Opens Comedy-Drama, “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike”
Olathe Civic Theatre Association is gearing up for their fifth and final mainstage show of the season. In the contemporary play, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Christopher Durang depicts middle-aged siblings, Vanya and Sonia, who share a home in Bucks County, PA, where they bicker and complain about the circumstances of their lives. Suddenly, their movie-star sister, Masha, swoops in with her new boy toy, Spike. Old resentments flare up, eventually leading to threats to sell the house.