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May 11, 2020

Arts News: Charlotte Street Renews Commitment to Cutting-Edge Choreography

Making Moves is moving. After a successful establishment year, Charlotte Street Foundation renewed the monthly choreographic showcase for 2020 and is bringing it to the..
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May 4, 2020

‘An Exciting Page Turn’

For more than 10 years, audiences at the tiny Fishtank Theatre saw experimental theater, mini-musicals, offbeat plays, solo performances, Fringe Festival shows and singular events such as a 24-hour live reading of a memoir by Alaska governor (and failed vice-presidential candidate) Sarah Palin.
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American composer and Kansas City native Virgil Thomson is the subject of a forthcoming PBS documentary by veteran filmmakers James Arntz and John Paulson working with KC-based producer Aimee Larrabee. (Carl Van Vechten Photographs Collection at the Library of Congress)K
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April 30, 2020

KC Composer Celebrated in Upcoming PBS Documentary

Walt Disney. Harry S Truman. Most Kansas Citians recognize these native sons. But Virgil Thomson? Blank stare. Actually, Virgil Thomson is the most important KC native most people have never heard of.
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April 1, 2020

For Now, the Small Screen Reigns Supreme

With a stay-at-home order for Kansas City and, as of midnight Sunday, all of Kansas, there’s a new chamber music that is proving essential: concerts only available through social media.
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March 30, 2020

KC Performing Arts See Uncertain Future Amid COVID-19 Lockdown

As the theater community reels from a community-wide shutdown ordered by public officials on both sides of the state line, artistic leaders are faced with..
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March 24, 2020

Arts News: Kansas City Women’s Chorus Combines Music and Social Justice

Cancellation notice: The Kansas City Women’s Chorus concert, “Reach Out, Reach Up,” April 17 and 18, is one of many performances throughout the city that..
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March 17, 2020

Britten, Bernstein and a Special Goodbye to Bobby Watson

Spring is finally here, and the students and faculty of the UMKC Conservatory are celebrating with exciting performances throughout this semester. We have had celebration..
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March 17, 2020

Love, Death and Power – On Steroids

What should you expect from an opera based on one of the most terrifying horror stories of all time? Believe it or not, a story about humanity. That’s what composer Paul Moravec and librettist Mark Campbell discovered when they turned Stephen King’s novel into an opera for the Minnesota Opera.
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March 16, 2020

Special Ticketing Programs Usher in Diverse Audiences at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

Discount ticketing is one of the ways that the Kauffman Center connects Kansas City’s many communities to world-class performance experiences. Kauffman Center provides ticket discounts..
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