I guess you should think of me as Scrooge Lite, especially when it comes to holiday music.
Stern-faced musicologists might wrinkle their brows and roll their eyes, but it's perfectly all right for listeners to become enraptured with the music of Sergei Rachmaninoff. Sheer unadulterated beauty is often at the heart of his music, and as Spanish conductor Juanjo Mena seemed to say in his conducting debut with the Kansas City Symphony – bring it on!
Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s annual production of “A Christmas Carol” is living proof that certain theatergoers will return again and again to re-experience familiar pleasures.
Tis the season testosterone takes the stage. Myriad male bodies will be leaping in the limelight when the Kansas City Ballet presents its 36th annual production of “The Nutcracker,” beginning Saturday.
Tim Acito has never seen “The Women of Brewster Place,” the 1989 TV miniseries produced by Oprah Winfrey.
Jennifer Mays has done comedy. Jennifer Mays has done drama. But the thing people forget is that Jennifer Mays, a down-to-earth beauty who has performed regularly on local stages since the mid-1990s, can do musicals. After she played Miss Sandra, the sexy curator of a wax museum who belts love songs in the New Theatre’s production of “All Shook Up” last summer, a lot of people who saw the show said this: “I didn’t know Jen could sing!”
The theater community was grieving Tuesday for the loss of one of their own — actor Peter Fopeano. Fopeano was found shot to death Tuesday evening in Kansas City, Kan. Police, responding to reports of shots fired, found Fopeano in a car with the engine running near Fifth Street and Troup Avenue.
Let’s just say it’s not your typical holiday show. The Unicorn Theatre’s production of Christopher Durang’s “Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You” would be novel enough by itself. For one thing, it’s been a very long time since Durang’s venerable absurdist comedy about a dictatorial nun laying down the law in a classroom has been staged professionally in Kansas City.
American Heartland Theatre: Crown Center Shops, Level Three, 2450 Grand. ComedyCity: 300 Charlotte. Community of Christ Auditorium: 1001 W. Walnut, Independence.
Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s annual production of “A Christmas Carol” is living proof that certain theatergoers will return again and again to re-experience familiar pleasures.
Anyone who has ever attended the annual performance of Handel's Messiah at the Community of Christ Auditorium knows that it's much more than just a concert. It's an iconic cultural event for the entire Kansas City region.
The New Theatre Restaurant’s new production of Mark Camoletti’s old farce “Boeing Boeing” somehow pulls a lot more laughs than it oughta.
Artists who exhibit the greatest amount of individuality tend to draw the greatest praise and the greatest criticism. So it is with Konstantin Lifschitz, the Ukranian pianist who performed Friday evening at the Folly Theater as part of the Master Pianist Series of the Friends of Chamber Music.
Well, friends, it had been a very long time since your humble theater critic sat through a production of "Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You" — so long, in fact, that I had forgotten how dark and ultimately disturbing this absurdist comedy really is.
The New Theatre Restaurant's new production of Mark Camoletti's old farce "Boeing Boeing" somehow pulls a lot more laughs than it oughta.
Ever wonder how actors get the hair-trigger timing right in a comedy? Pull up a front row seat.
On the day the rest of us were casting votes for John McCain or Barack Obama, the Federal Communications Commission took a quiet vote of its own.
The Friends of Chamber Music scored an exclusive engagement by booking pianist Konstantin Lifschitz for his only U.S. performance this year.
Kansas City Repertory Theatre unveils the 28th season of its annual holiday classic, “A Christmas Carol,” on Saturday.
Think of it as a show and a history lesson. Paul Mesner Puppets returns with its unique production of “The Nativity,” a piece the company has performed off and on for more than 10 years.
