Time for the first round of weekend calendar picks for May! Tomorrow in the Donald J. Hall Sculpture Park at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, an exhibition of largescale sculptures by Eduardo Chillida opens. The Friends of Chamber Music present pianist Kirill Gerstein at the Folly. And Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the Kansas City Symphony performs Britten’s War Requiem. On Saturday and Sunday, the Jewish Community Center presents Jana Robbins critical acclaims cabaret show, “I’m Still Here.” And on Saturday, see Owen/Cox Dance Group perform with the Island Moving Co. For more ideas this weekend, visit Kansas City’s most comprehensive arts calendar at kcstudio.org/events.
Chillida: Rhythm-Time-Silence
May 5 – December 3 | Free
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
This exhibition will present seven large-scale sculptures by internationally esteemed Spanish sculptor, Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002). For the first time, Kansas City visitors will see work by this innovative, sometimes witty, but always powerful artist.
In another first, this exhibition will activate Theis Park just south of the Nelson-Atkins. Four sculptures will be on view in Theis Park and three will be on display in the Donald J. Hall Sculpture Park on the south lawn of the museum. This project is being done in cooperation with the Kansas City Parks and Recreation Department.
Kirill Gerstein in recital
May 5 @ 8:00 pm
Folly Theater
Bach, Brahms, Liszt
WAR and REMEMBRANCE with BRITTEN
May 5 & 6 @ 8:00 pm
May 7 @ 2:00 pm
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
In Britten’s War Requiem, the English composer combines musical settings of the traditional Latin Mass for the Dead with searing, graphic World War I poems by Wilfred Owen. Britten’s condemnation of the horrors of war leaves an impact long after the haunting final notes have sounded. Michael Stern, the Kansas City Symphony, Chorus and a trio of superb international vocal soloists join together for this unforgettable concert experience.
Jana Robbins: I’m Still Here!
May 6 @7:30 pm & May 7 @ 2:00 pm
Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City
Broadway actor, producer and Kansas City native, Jana Robbins, brings her critically acclaimed Cabaret show “I’m Still Here” to The J. Telling tales of growing up as Marsha Eisenberg in a Jewish family from Johnstown, PA., she tells of the challenges of pursuing her dream of a career on Broadway. Starting at the early age of four at the Gene Kelly School of Dance and with early roles in the Purim plays-against all odds-just as the Jewish people always have-she has persevered through the ups and downs to achieve goals beyond her wildest dreams. Singing such songs as The Impossible Dream, Small World and Everything’s Coming UP Roses from Gypsy, in which she starred on Broadway, she inspires us all to follow our dreams, and proves that she is definitely still here! Jana Robbins is a recipient of the Jewish National Fund’s Tree of Life Award.
“Jana Robbins is still here and is a thrilling force to be reckoned with….a performance not to miss!” –Times Square Chronicles
Inland Roads
May 6 @ 8:00 pm
Folly Theater
Owen/Cox Dance Group with Island Moving Co.
Owen/Cox Dance Group and Island Moving Co. of Newport, RI present a diverse and dynamic repertoire of contemporary dance works, featuring the Kansas City premiere of Three Fables, a work choreographed for both companies by Jennifer Owen at the 2016 Great Friends Dance Festival in Newport, RI.
