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![‘TIS A GIFT: Students, teachers, and local organizations spur a bounty of youthful talent](https://kcindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/08_Sean-Chen_Cliburn-scaled.jpg)
Anyone who has remained attentive to the performing arts in Kansas City is probably aware of a growing phenomenon of which we can all be justly proud: the presence of…
![JUST IN TIME: Actors Theatre presents long-neglected American classic](https://kcindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/12_Alice-Childress_Schomburg-Center-crop.jpg)
One mark of a great theater piece is that decades, generations, even centuries after its inception it can still grab us by the shoulders and shake us. The dozen or…
![MAKING STRIDES: Artists from the LGBTQ+ community share thoughts on Kansas City and its progress](https://kcindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Ingrid-Stolzel_Photo-Cristian-Fatu-scaled.jpg)
INGRID STÖLZEL: Ingrid Stölzel is an award-winning composer whose works have been performed at concert halls and festivals around the world and have been called “richly introspective” and cited as…