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Second half of the season is star-studded
Tue, Dec 29, 2009
A preview some of the outstanding classical music and dance performances to watch for during the rest of the 2010 season.
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"The Young Victoria" is royally good
Tue, Dec 29, 2009
Of course there is a little dramatic license taken here and there during the course of the story, but only one attains a little historical blasphemy and it involves an assassination attempt. Otherwise, The Young Victoria will leave you saying, "God Save The Queen!"
Barcelona meets KCK
Tue, Dec 29, 2009
Lucky american audiences may have had the opportunity to enjoy a live performance at New York's Metropolitan Opera, but few have had the luxury of seeing, hearing and feeling world-class European talent from such legendary venues as La Scala in Milan or the Gran Teatre Del Liceau in Barcelona.
Live - from Overland Park...
Tue, Dec 22, 2009
New Theatre's "Run For Your Wife" is pure farce. Mild mannered taxi driver John Smith, has two wives living in different parts of town. After attempting to stop a mugger, John is questioned by the police and hailed as a hero by the press. The whole fiasco leaves him scrambling to cover his tracks as detectives and his wives chase him across town.
Articles : KCM News
KCM receives a Small Arts Grant Program Award from the Francis Family Foundation
Tue, Dec 22, 2009
KCMetropolis.org is a recent recipient of a Small Arts Grants Program Award from the Francis Family Foundation. This grant will be used for FY 2009/10 general operation expenses. What a lovely Christmas present for KCM... thank you Francis Family.
This season of giving
Tue, Dec 01, 2009
Thank you to all who have supprted KCM over the past year. We are finally nearing the end of 2009 - and looking forward to 2010 and brighter days. It's not too late to make a gift of any size to KCMetropolis.org - use the online DONATE feature before midnight on December 31 or postmark your check for that same date...
Articles : Local Arts News
First Annual newEar Composers' Competition winners announced
Wed, Dec 30, 2009
newEar Contemporary Chamber Ensemble is pleased to announce Lansing McLoskey and Peiying Yuan as the winners of the First Annual newEar Composers' Competition.
ArtsKC Fund announces new Inspiration Awards
Tue, Dec 29, 2009
The Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City Board of Directors has approved $6,079 in new ArtsKC Fund Inspiration Award funding for eight projects by local artists. Inspiration awards from the ArtsKC fund, a united arts fund, support projects by individual artists which assist with their overall professional growth in specific creative endeavors.
Theatre for Young America now enrolling for spring classes
Tue, Dec 22, 2009
Theatre for Young America is accepting enrollments for its Saturday morning classes offered at Avila University. These weekly classes will take place in the Goppert Theatre complex on the Avila University Campus located at 11901 Wornall Road, in Kansas City, Missouri. Spring semester classes at Avila begin on Saturday, January 30, 2010.
Starlight Theatre's 2010 Broadway line-up
Tue, Dec 22, 2009
Starlight's 2010 Broadway line-up will appeal to diverse audiences when four national tours and a locally produced musical comedy take the stage next summer.
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KC Events this week and beyond
Wed, Feb 01, 2012
Looking for something to do this weekend? Click here for the KC Events calendar of theatre, classical music, dance and jazz events through 2011. Highlights of this week's classical music and dance offerings are in Don Dagenais' "City Classics." For current Theatre listings visit Victor Wishna's "City Stage." Enjoy!
KC Events this week and beyond
Wed, Dec 30, 2009
This last week of 2009 brings a brief interlude for many arts groups until the second half of the season begins in earnest next week. "Miss Witherspoon," "Christmas Story. The Musical!," and “Little House on the Prairie” close this weekend. “Run For Your Wife” continues through early February. “Voices of Prometheus - an American Vocal Consort” presented by GREAT SPACES Music & Arts Series in Topeka offers music of Byrd, Gabrieli, Hassler, Handel, Poulenc, Walton, Vaughan Williams - all for a free-will offering on December 30.
Winter comes to life with Jazz Winterlude
Tue, Dec 29, 2009
Johnson County Community College will banish the winter blues with a new three-day jazz festival - Jazz Winterlude: Kansas City Style running Friday-Sunday, January 8-10, in several venues at the Carlsen Center.
Whose side is he on, anyway?
Tue, Dec 29, 2009
David Peironnet talks with Tim Jepson, principal timpanist for the Kansas City Symphony, about why we should think about the relationship between musicians and the audience differently.
The reincarnation blues
Tue, Dec 08, 2009
For Christopher Durang, the neurotically-charged playwright of the Unicorn Theatre's lastest play Miss Witherspoon, the stage is a second home; his comedies put his characters in situations as absurd and frightening as an hour at a psychoanalyst's couch set up in a confessional.
"A Christmas Story" has Broadway on its wish list
Mon, Dec 07, 2009
After the Kansas City Repertory Theatre's 29-year run of performing "A Christmas Carol," Eric Rosen, in only his 2nd full season as its artistic director, deserves a theatric medal of valor for breaking with three decades of tradition to stage this new musical.
Columns : City Stage
Columns : Off the Vine
December/January Events
Tue, Dec 15, 2009
"Jam Session: America's Jazz Ambassadors Embrace the World" is an exceptional collection of photographs and documents, now showing at the American Jazz Museum, drawn from important archives around the country that chronicles the tours of American jazz legends as they traveled the globe on behalf of the U.S. State Department.