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September 23, 2019

Music and Dance Add to Autumn’s Splendor

With crisp temperatures and trees burnished with red and gold, October is perhaps the loveliest month of the year in Kansas City. As always, the Harriman-Jewell Series is adding to the beauty of the season with glorious performances this October: A violinist and two singers will make their Kansas City debuts, and the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet will bring its distinctive style of dance for a return engagement.
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September 23, 2019

The Arts Asylum – Jesus Christ Superstar

“Nowhere will you see a better version of Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar. Every aspect of the production excels,” Early reviews of The Arts Asylum and..
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September 22, 2019

Goons, Dames and Mozart: Hometown Tenor Debuts in Lyric Opera of Kansas City’s “The Abduction from the Seraglio” Reboot.

Lyric Opera of Kansas City makes “The Abduction from the Seraglio”—a story about love, about pride and about power—into a captivating rom-com set in the seedy back alleys of Hollywood.
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September 20, 2019

Bring on the (Native) Funk – The Mother Earth Ship Has Landed

It was the 1970s. George Clinton’s Funkadelic blistered the airwaves. Redbone’s “Come and Get Your Love” had hit Billboard’s top 5, a first for a Native American band. Like thousands of other American teenagers, Preston Singletary dreamed of life on the stage making music — until a detour in the mid-’80s led him down a new path.
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September 20, 2019

Winston Holmes: Kansas City’s Unsung Entrepeneur

The legacy of local entrepreneurs in Kansas City goes as far back as Francois Chouteau, who established a trading post at present-day Kansas City in..
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September 20, 2019

Gallery Glance: Aretha Aoki & Ryan MacDonald: “Wind in the Pines” at KCAI Crossroads Gallery

Beginning in mid-October, the Center for Contemporary Practice program at the KCAI Crossroads Gallery presents husband and wife artists Ryan MacDonald, a KCAI alum, and..
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September 18, 2019

From Page to Stage

We chatted with Steven C. Kemp, the set designer for our first opera of the season, Mozart’s comedy The Abduction from the Seraglio. This new-to-Kansas City production comes to the Kauffman Center September 21-29 and was first seen at New Orleans Opera in April 2019.
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September 18, 2019

Kansas City Jazz Orchestra – Cotton Club Revisited, October 11th at Helzberg Hall

Cab Calloway. Bessie Smith. Lena Horne. Duke Ellington. For a couple decades starting in the 1920s, these legendary performers put on some of their greatest..
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September 17, 2019

Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company Presents “Southern Exposure”

This fall, Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company restages its 2010 work “Southern Exposure” with the help of a $10,000 Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. “With all of these things that have happened in the past few years...I thought it was time to revisit it again, in a slightly different perspective,” said Mary Pat Henry.
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