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The Kansas City Ballet’s 55th season is going out with a bang. The final program features three distinct sections that are very different, but have a uniting theme of jazz and sass. The evening opens with the world premiere of Karole Armitage’s “Energy Made Visible,” featuring music composed and performed by legendary jazz saxophonist, [...]
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When life gives you lemons, just make lemonade and curse about it. The Kansas City Repertory Theatre is closing its amazing season with “American Buffalo,” a tale that touches on that old catch phrase that tells us to make the best of what we’ve got. David Mamet’s acerbic play is a modern examination of the [...]
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A modern twist on a 19th century classic “Mikado” is leaving audiences in stitches at The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. In production through April 28, the Lyric Opera’s retelling of “Mikado” is funny, charming and surprising all rolled into one. It features love, hate, joy, sorrow and many more emotions in-between. The story [...]
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The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live transmissions to movie theaters, will feature 10 productions in the 2013-14 season, offering a significant portion of the Met season to opera lovers around the world. Mark your calendars now, the series opens on Oct. 5 with Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, starring Anna [...]
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In Kansas City, we love three things – jazz, baseball and bbq. “Kansas City Swing,” an upcoming play presented by UMKC Theatre and the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum April 19-28, has two of the three. It’s the fall of 1947 and the baseball season is winding down. The Satchel Paige All-Stars are getting ready [...]
