Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich’s seat at the piano is usually several feet behind those of the other musicians onstage. But when the Tashkent native begins to play, you immediately take notice. Her […]

Amy Abels Owen caught the theater bug at the age of eight. It happened in downtown Kansas City, where her aunt and grandmother took her to see the touring Broadway […]

Mixing musical genres can be tricky business. When José “Pepe” Martínez and Leonard Foglia joined forces to create what they called “the first mariachi opera,” there were no clear models […]

Owen/Cox and Gilda’s Club enlist dance, music, and poetry to address cancer’s impact  Dance is in many ways an ideal art form for expressing big emotions, for putting forth ideas […]

NewEar Contemporary Chamber Ensemble has performed hundreds of works by national and international composers over the 32 years of its existence, while maintaining a focus on those with connections to […]

Few dancers who have graced Kansas City stages possess the drive, the depth of curiosity, or the breadth of performance experience that Emara Vonae’ Neymour Jackson can claim. The 26-year-old […]

Late playwright’s portrait of a Black family confronts truth with humor and compassion  Broke-ology is at once a Kansas City story and a universal story. It recounts a tale of illness […]

It was neither barbecue nor Constitutional debate that drew Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to Kansas City this August, but a workshop to prepare a new project for the Coterie […]

… in music, theater, and dance  JANUARY-FEBRUARY January 29-February 23: Coterie Theatre; Just Ask!; The best-selling book by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, which Fran Sillau and Mark Kurtz have […]

Karen Paisley and the board of directors of the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre have an urgent message for Kansas City theatergoers: We’re still here. Ten months after what appeared to be a […]

December is filled with choral concerts, and in the coming weeks nearly all of the operational non-profit choirs — not to mention dozens of choruses hosted by places worship — […]

For more than five centuries, European settlers went to extravagant lengths to erase Native American tradition, culture, and even language from the face of North America. The effect was devastating […]

We have long recognized that the arts can aid in certain types of healing. Music, art, and dance therapy — which have grown into sophisticated, goal-oriented disciplines — offer practical […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]