Christoph Wolff has devoted much of his life’s work to demonstrating not just that music is a unifying force, but that musical research itself can also be a place in which scholars and musicians from various cultural backgrounds, regions, and even political convictions can come together for a common purpose.  During the chaotic years after […]

Freddy Acevedo possesses a range as wide as any theater artist you’ll meet. A strong presence on Kansas City stages in recent years, locally the Texas-born actor/producer/playwright/educator has played a valiant Jonathan Harker (Dracula, Kansas City Actors’ Theatre), a wittily hyperactive Rafael (Clyde’s, Unicorn Theatre), an elegant Paris (Romeo and Juliet, Heart of America Shakespeare Festival), and an […]

If you want to understand the complexity of Stephanie Zuluaga Kneeman’s artistry, you need to gain an image of the whole person. She is a mezzo-soprano of rich musical gifts and wide-ranging interests: music and theater, but also family, community, and even the business world. She is operatically trained but sings everything from salsa to […]

Jerry Mañan Actor/playwright/director  Jerry Mañan is an actor, writer, director, and theater artist based in the Kansas City area. He graduated from Avila University, where in his last year he received the Best Classical Acting award at the American College Theatre Festival. Locally he has appeared at the Unicorn Theatre (Refuge, Backwards Forwards Back, The Lifespan of […]

The first thing you notice, when delving into the thousands of letters that artist Georgia O’Keeffe and photographer Alfred Stieglitz exchanged over three decades, is how many of them read like poetry. So much so, in fact, that when composer Kevin Puts determined to write songs for Renée Fleming drawn from the O’Keeffe letters, the […]

The health of a community’s performing arts scene is measured not only by the vigor of its large organizations, but by the constant proliferation of smaller groups that fill out the landscape with fresh voices and provocative ideas. The first quarter of the 21st century has seen a remarkable flourishing of new choirs, chamber ensembles, […]