Performing – KC STUDIO

November 30, 2017

The Best Holiday Jazz: A Roundup of Recordings by the Greats

If you’re into jazz, you know that it’s capable of reshaping any kind of music to its improvisational ends — and that includes holiday music...

November 29, 2017

Ring in the Season with the Real Saint Nicolas December 5

Ring in the holidays with the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra and Musica Vocale for Benjamin Britten’s glorious retelling of the legend of Saint Nicolas at..

November 27, 2017

Arts News – The Wires: Making Music a Meditative Exploration

The winter solstice is a time of mystery and a moment of hope in the darkened chill of December. The Wires, an alternative string duo,..

November 26, 2017

Christmas Carol: 150 Years of Love and Politics

Everyone gets indigestion after a massive Thanksgiving dinner, but for theater critics the discomfort may be particularly acute. They know that soon they will sit..

November 21, 2017

Kansas City Ballet in the National Spotlight

A fantastic and magical engagement from curtain up to curtain down, the Kansas City Ballet’s reimagined production of “The Nutcracker” is in the national spotlight this holiday season. Each year the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., selects an elite dance company to perform “The Nutcracker” in the nation’s capital the week of Thanksgiving. This year, the invitation was extended to the Kansas City Ballet.

November 17, 2017

The MET Tackles Shakespeare’s ‘Cymbeline’

Let’s give credit where credit is due: Karen Paisley, co-founder and artistic director of the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre, long ago embraced audacity as an aesthetic..

November 15, 2017

KU Choirs and Symphony Orchestra to Hold Free Vespers Concert Dec. 1 at JCCC

A favorite University of Kansas holiday tradition can now be heard for free and closer to Kansas City. KU Choirs and Symphony Orchestra will travel..

November 13, 2017

Artist to Watch: Julia Haile

Julia Haile is taking Kansas City by storm. “Her voice and stage presence are second to none, and her body of work is growing to be some of the best to come out of this city,” said Bill Sundahl, special events coordinator of KKFI 90.1 FM Kansas City Community Radio. Haile performed with well-known singer-songwriter Barclay Martin at the June 30 “Collaborations” fundraiser event for KKFI at the Folly Theater.

November 10, 2017

Arts News: Popularizing Percussion

Say “percussion” and most people think solely of drums. Few people realize the expansiveness of the world of percussion in terms of range, styles of..

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