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May 20, 2019

Arts News: New Play Explores the Life of KC Jazz Legend Myra Taylor

“You should make a movie of my life,” local jazz legend Myra Taylor (1917-2011) said to independent filmmaker Michael Assesandro years ago. He never forgot..

May 18, 2019

Kansas City Symphony Thrills With Performance of Mahler Symphony No. 3

With the performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 3, the Kansas City Symphony and director Michael Stern have completed a monumental goal: a nearly complete..

May 11, 2019

Dark/Bright/Light: Kansas City Ballet season ends with energetic, eclectic works, including David Parsons world premiere.

“Human movement is the basis of all art,” wrote Twyla Tharp. Kansas City Ballet displayed this philosophy with the textural, painterly season closer THARP /..

May 9, 2019

Summer Sizzles at the Conservatory

Although the academic year is winding down, the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance is heating up for an exciting summer of music, dance, composition..

May 9, 2019

See Hear: Do We Have What it Takes to be a City of Jazz?

Early this year, “Downbeat” magazine announced a global list of 25 cities where jazz “thrives.” Kansas City, alas, failed to make the cut. A friend..

May 8, 2019

Kauffman Center Celebrates Local Youth Performers and Unique Kauffman Center Presents Performances

Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts welcomes a variety of audiences with different styles, interests and passions. The Center provides diverse programming for all ages..

May 8, 2019

Arts News: Spinning Tree Finds a Home

Spinning Tree Theatre, a not-for-profit company known for quality work and staging shows new to Kansas City audiences, has found a new home: the Johnson County Arts and Heritage Center.The center, which houses a small theater as well as the Johnson County Museum, is where the theater company founded by Andrew Grayman-Parkhurst and Michael Grayman-Parkhurst will stage its ninth season.

May 7, 2019

Concert to Come | Celebrating the Contributions of Musica Vocale’s Arnold Epley

Arnold Epley has devoted nearly half his life to the musical culture of Kansas City and he’s not finished yet. “I used to say, if you wake me up at 3 a.m. and shake me and ask, ‘What do you do?’ I would say, ‘I’m a singer,’” said Epley. Epley turns 80 years old May 18.

May 6, 2019

An Actress, an Artist and a Mystical Quest: ‘Frida’ at KC Rep

Vanessa Severo has assigned herself a next-to-impossible task in the one-woman show, “Frida . . . A Self Portrait” — to tell a compressed version..

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