Arts News: KC Symphony Makes Final Push to Create $55 Million Endowment
The new year brought a major announcement by the Kansas City Symphony: The organization is launching the final phase of its Masterpiece Campaign, an ambitious..
Celebrate Women in Jazz and National Jazz Months with Grammy-Winning Performances
In celebration of Women in Jazz Month, the American Jazz Museum presents pre-eminent jazz vocalist and four-time GRAMMY winner DIANNE REEVES. With a repertoire ranging..
That Rasheedat “Ras” Badejo would become an actress in demand — a hit at KC’s 2016 Fringe Festival who has played standout roles at the Coterie and the Unicorn — was far from expected.
“A Raisin in the Sun” is regarded as a major American play that not only reflects the era in which it was created — the 1950s — but continues to resonate for its insight into humanity in general and race in particular.
The MET Scores with August Wilson’s Beautifully Written “Gem of the Ocean”
Fine performances — deeply felt, charismatic, Shakespearean — are what you take away from Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre’s affecting production of “Gem of the Ocean,” the..
The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra Presents a “Hard Habit to Break!”
Chicago. Earth, Wind and Fire. Blood, Sweat and Tears. The invigorating, driving sound of the great horn bands of the 1970s have shaped the landscape..
KC MeltingPot Tackles “Dutchman,” An Angry, Sadly Relevant ’60s Response to Racism
So the KC MeltingPot Theatre production of LeRoi Jones’s “Dutchman” is a slap-in-the-face change of pace that is most welcome. Jones, who later changed his..
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