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12-13-2024
Owen/Cox Dance Group “The Nutcracker & the Mouse King”
“The Nutcracker & the Mouse King” | Friday & Sunday, Dec. 13, 15 | times vary | Polsky Theatre | Owen/Cox Dance Group performs their raucous version of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s holiday classic, with The People’s Liberation Big Band of Greater Kansas City.
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12-15-2024
Tidings of Joy!
Join us to celebrate the Christmas holiday. Live music and readings.
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12-15-2024
Rezound! Holiday Handbell Concert
Celebrate the holidays with this festive concert featuring exciting new arrangements and traditional favorites.
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12-15-2024
The Grammy-winning Kansas City Chorale: Holiday Pops!
A lighthearted nod to the simple joys of America’s favorite holiday tunes: Jingle Bells, The Christmas Song, Carol of the Bells, White Christmas, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and more!
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12-15-2024
IMMANUEL – a concert by Melanie Penn with Störling Dance Theater and The Culture House School of Dance
Enjoy the simplicity and joy of the holiday season as we return, back to the manger, for a musical retelling of the Christmas story, live in concert with Melanie Penn. Sharing the stage with her are Storling Dance Theater and The Culture House.
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12-15-2024
2nd Annual Holiday Follies
Kansas City Theatre Pipe Organ presents a Christmas Musical Event featuring Barbershop entertainment with the legendary Robert-Morton Theatre Pipe Organ and special guest, Tim Schramm from Rochester NY
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12-15-2024
Creature Crafternoon : Mari Lwyd Ornament
Join fellow creatures on Sunday December 15th at 2 – 4PM at ReRoll Tavern in North Kansas City to create your own Mari Lwyd holiday ornament!
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12-13-2024
Candlelight, Carols & Cathedral 2024
For 27 years “Candlelight, Carols & Cathedral” has been one of Kansas City’s signature holiday events, featuring the William Baker Festival Singers and Friends. Friday, December 13 at 7:30 PM, and Sunday, December 15 at 3:00 PM
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12-15-2024
An Overland Park Orchestra Christmas Festival
Holiday Magic for the Whole Family! | December 15th at 6:00PM | Good Shepherd Catholic Church, 12800 W 75th St, Shawnee, KS 66216
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12-15-2024
Resounding Joy
Celebrate the joy of community and the spirit of the season at Resounding Joy, an uplifting evening of music, unity, and giving back! Join us on December 15th from 5-7 PM as Xion and special guest King Dari bring powerful live performances.
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12-16-2024
Te Deum – A Precious Child: Annual Christmas Concert, featuring David Lang’s The Little Match Girl Passion
Te Deum professional choral music ensemble presents A Precious Child: Te Deum’s annual Christmas concert, featuring David Lang’s “The Little Match Girl Passion | Monday, December 16th at 7:00 PM, St. Mary’s Episcopal Church
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12-17-2024
Te Deum – A Precious Child: Annual Christmas Concert, featuring David Lang’s The Little Match Girl Passion
Te Deum professional choral music ensemble presents A Precious Child: Te Deum’s annual Christmas concert, featuring David Lang’s “The Little Match Girl Passion | Tuesday, December 17th at 7:00 PM, Village Presbyterian Church
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12-19-2024
The King’s Singers in Holiday Concert
The King’s Singers have set the gold standard in a cappella singing on the world’s greatest stages for over fifty years.
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12-19-2024
Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory
In the tradition of Charles Dickens reading his holiday favorite, A Christmas Carol, performer Park Bucker recites Truman Capote’s tale of holiday remembrance and redemption, A Christmas Memory.
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12-13-2024
SUGARPLUM: An Original Nutcracker Musical
SUGARPLUM, a charismatic and enterprising girl boss from a dull desert town, is suddenly transported on an adventure to a snowy magical city, where she must adapt, dream, and scheme to get back home in time for Christmas. *World Premiere!*
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11-18-2024
Acrylic Painting- Advanced Level
Dive deeper into techniques that bring your canvases to life as you work on refining your style as an acrylic painter under the guidance of our teaching artists.
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12-06-2024
SEUSSICAL
Playing INDOOR at Theatre in the Park’s Black Box Theatre at the Johnson County Arts & Heritage Center, DEC 6 – 23. Rated G.
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12-28-2024
Sin Fronteras: Music Without Borders
A concert about Borders, created by Musicians without Borders.
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11-23-2024
A Christmas Carol
Join Ebenezer Scrooge on his redemptive journey with Christmas Past, Present, and Future, and rediscover the true meaning of the holidays.
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12-05-2024
High School Visual Art Competition
A juried show featuring area high school student artists.
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11-02-2024
The Bird Comedy Show
Games. Scenes. Characters. All made up by The Bird Comedy Theater Players.
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12-01-2024
Daily Admission to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an art museum in Kansas City, Missouri, known for its encyclopedic collection of art from nearly every continent and culture, and especially for its extensive collection of Asian art.
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12-28-2024
The Dreidel Players Present… Best Hanukkah Show Ever!
A passionate, not-quite-ready-for-primetime theatre troupe bands together to create the world’s most ambitious Hanukkah show… in just eight days!
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12-07-2024
Fine Art Photography: Genevieve Casey, “Seeking Connection”
Photography exhibition: Seeking a common theme in my work, I realized there are two main themes. One has always been allowing the camera to teach me mindfulness. The other is searching for relationship and connection..
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12-10-2024
Finding Nemo TYA
The beloved 2003 Pixar movie Finding Nemo comes to life on stage featuring puppets by co-producer What if Puppets!
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04-25-2024
General Admission
Enjoy single day admission to explore the museum’s galleries and collection. Use discount code TheDrop24 at checkout.
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11-01-2024
Holidays at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery
Holidays at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery Opening | November 1 – December 31, 2024 | Belger Crane Yard Gallery | Please join us for the opening of Holidays at the Belger Crane Yard Gallery exhibition.
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11-01-2024
Art Exhibition – “Whispers and Screams: Voices from the Belger Collection”
Whispers and Screams: Voices from the Belger Collection | April 5, 2024 – August 3, 2024 | Belger Arts Center | 2100 Walnut Street, Kansas City, MO 64108
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01-01-2025
Kinnor Philharmonic New Year’s Day Concert
Vivaldi, Weinberg & Tchaikovsky with KRISTINA REIKO COOPER
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11-15-2024
Something Wonderful
Opening this month during our monthly Third Friday Art Walk, is Something Wonderful: A Holiday Market. This is a shoppable exhibition features work from local artists and our glassblowing studio.
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09-21-2024
Hokusai: Waves of Inspiration from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Waves of Inspiration immerses guests in the vast ocean of Hokusai’s influence, showcasing roughly 200 additional works by the artist’s teachers, family, students, rivals, and worldwide admirers.
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10-05-2024
An Exchange of Gifts: The Art of Kansas City Public Library Staff
The Library celebrates the wide-ranging talents of its staff in this 150th anniversary capstone – a multimedia exhibition of staff artwork and an exchange of creative gifts curated by the Library’s Exhibitions Coordinator Craig Auge.
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11-01-2024
Winter Magic – Northland | KC’s FAV Drive-Thru Holiday Light Party
Exciting UPDATES for 2024: 2X the lights! — Exciting new location! — Most affordable pricing yet! This holiday season at Winter Magic, you’ll create cherished core memories as you gather under the glow of our sparkling holiday lights!
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10-04-2024
MAI 2024: Mosaic Arts International
MAI 2024: Mosaic Arts International | Friday, October 1, 2024 – January 4, 2025 | Belger Crane Yard Gallery | 2011 Tracy Ave. Kansas City, MO 64108
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10-04-2024
The One Hundred Moments Project
The One Hundred Moments Project| Friday, October 1, 2024 – January 4, 2025 | Belger Crane Yard Gallery | 2011 Tracy Ave. Kansas City, MO 64108
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01-09-2025
2nd Thursday Recital: Lucas Fletcher, organ
Come join us for a Noon-day recital. We feature musicians based in greater Kansas City who perform styles from early to new, jazz, opera and anywhere between. Meet the Artist afterward in a small reception with cookies and lemonade.
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01-09-2025
Ceramic Shadow Box
In this one day workshop, participants will learn the basics of slab building in clay to construct a wall hanging shadow box. In Mexican Folk Art, these are also referred to as Nichos. All supplies & kiln firings included.
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01-11-2025
Pedals, Pipes, and Pizza
A workshop for piano students 4th grade and older. Explore the “King of Instruments” at two local churches, and enjoy a pizza lunch.
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01-12-2025
Young Choreographer’s Showcase
Weekend workshop offering Young Choreographers the space to take contemporary class, guided improvisation, and learn choreographic tools from industry professionals.
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01-16-2025
Flourishing in an Uncertain World: How Entrepreneurs Overcome Doubts and Disagreements
Author and professor Amar Bhide’s new book explains how the economy hinges on reconciling the predictable and the unpredictable.
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10-17-2024
Where Have All The Pheasants Gone?
Englewood Arts 10901 E Winner Rd, Independence, MO 64052 proudly announces an upcoming art exhibition titled “Where Have All The Pheasants Gone?”, featuring a new body of work by Missouri artist GK Callahan.
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01-18-2025
Kids Jam – Funky Mama
Kids Jam – Funky Mama | Saturday, Jan. 18 at 11 a.m. | Polsky Theatre | Join us in the MTC lobby at 10 a.m. for art activities, followed by an hour-long concert with an acclaimed children’s musician.
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01-18-2025
Yellowjackets
Russell Ferrante, Bob Mintzer, Will Kennedy, and Dane Alderson return to the Folly Jazz Series fresh off their 2023 GRAMMY(R) nomination for “Parallel Motion”, the band’s latest album that “showcases a collective at their prime” (bandcamp).
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01-19-2025
Cat Candleholder
Make a unique & eccentric candleholder in the shape of a cat!! Workshop includes instruction, clay, glaze & firing. Workshops are single-day events
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01-19-2025
Searching the Psyche through Cinema: The Taste of Things
Food is the language of love in The Taste of Things, a 2023 French romantic drama. A post-screening discussion is led by psychoanalyst Robert Feuer and film critic Trey Hock.
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01-23-2025
Handmade Mug Workshop
Make your own ceramic mug! Workshop includes instruction, clay, glaze & firing. Workshops are single-day events
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01-24-2025
Hiplet Ballerinas
Hiplet Ballerinas | Friday, January 24 at 7:30 p.m. | Yardley Hall | Making ballet accessible by pairing it with current songs familiar to audiences who don’t normally attend ballet performances.
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01-24-2025
Park ICM Presents Park Trio in Recital
Friday, January 24, 2025 7:30 p.m. 1900 Building, 1900 Shawnee Mission Parkway, Mission Woods, Kansas 66205
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01-25-2025
REAL Love: A Tribute to the Music of Mary J. Blige
REAL Love WINS! All-STAR Cast o Live Jan. 25, 2025 * Grand Avenue Temple 205 E 9th St, Kansas City, MO 64106 * Doors 6:30PM & Show 7:30PM
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01-26-2025
Time for Three
Time for Three | Sunday, January 26 at 7 p.m. | Polsky Theatre | The Grammy- and Emmy-winning ensemble defies convention and boundaries by showcasing excellence across different genres, including classical music, Americana, and singer-songwriter.
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01-26-2025
Ceramic Tic Tac Toe Board
In this one day workshop, participants will create their own unique tic tac toe board using hand building techniques with instructor guidance. Will yours be peanut butter & jelly? Blueberries & butter on a waffle? Cats vs dogs?
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01-29-2025
The Kansas City Sound: A History of Local Music from Jazz to Punk
Musician and entertainer Cody Wyoming has been a part of the local, underground music scene for more than 30 years. But he’s also a music historian and is working to trace the history of the city’s music.
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01-31-2025
Anthony McGill, clarinet and Emanuel Ax, piano in duo recital
Decorated artists, musicians, and good friends Emanuel Ax and Anthony McGill come together in a special recital featuring a diverse program of great music.
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12-06-2024
Cerbera Gallery & KCSCP present: “WINTER ART SALON — SAFFRON”
EXHIBITION SHOWCASING VARIOUS ARTISTS WORKING IN DIFFERENT MEDIUMS
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01-31-2025
Young Playwrights Festival 2025
Spinning Tree Theatre proudly presents the 5th annual Young Playwrights Festival, showcasing 3 short original plays by Kansas City metropolitan area teens.
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02-06-2025
Opus 76 Quartet Signature Series III: Schubert – The G Major Quartet
Join us for a night of exquisite music with Opus 76 Quartet playing Schubert’s iconic G Major Quartet!
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02-07-2025
Park ICM Orchestra Valentine’s Concert with Guest Conductor Jason Seber
Graham Tyler Memorial Chapel, 8700 NW River Park Drive, Parkville, MO Friday, February 7, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
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12-10-2024
Park University Senior Showcase Exhibit
A trio of Park University seniors will showcase their works of art as part of an exhibit in the University’s Campanella Gallery (located inside Norrington Center on Park’s flagship Parkville Campus), Tuesday, Dec. 10, through Friday, Feb. 7.
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02-10-2025
DRUMLine Live
DRUMLine Live is an international tour based on the Historically Black College and University (HBCU) marching band tradition.
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02-11-2025
Nikolai Lugansky, Master Pianist
The master pianist Nikolai Lugansky “is clearly one of those chosen few. [He] possesses one of the most complete and remarkable keyboard arsenals of our day.” — Chicago Classical Review.
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02-13-2025
Second Thursday Recital: Rachel Priest, soprano
Come join us for a Noon-day recital. We feature musicians based in greater Kansas City who perform styles from early to new, jazz, opera and anywhere between. Meet the Artist afterward in a small reception with cookies and lemonade.
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02-15-2025
MOMIX Alice
Known internationally for presenting work of exceptional inventiveness and physical beauty, MOMIX is a company of dancer-illusionists under the direction of Moses Pendleton.
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02-15-2025
Bach Aria Soloists presents: The Adventures of Don Quixote
The Adventures of Don Quixote, highlighting the most popular scenes from Cervantes’ literary masterpiece Don Quixote!
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11-01-2024
Undying Love: Illustrations of Faith and Courage from the Lives of Christian Martyrs
In this collection of large scale paintings, Jeffrey Hakes invites viewers to meditate upon powerful stories of Christian martyrs throughout history.
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02-16-2025
Winterlude Jazz Festival featuring New Orleans Songbook
Sunday, February 16 at 7 p.m. | Yardley Hall | Bringing the soul of New Orleans and the spirit of Mardi Gras to this amazing evening.
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02-16-2025
Choral Evensong with Concert
Join The Greater Kansas City American Guild of Organists chapter for an evening with Choral Evensong followed by a 30-minute organ concert. A reception follows the evenings program.
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01-29-2025
Doctor Moloch
A sci-fi fantasy about an actress tasked with teaching an AI robot to feel emotions, delving into the complexities of humanity, ambition, and the boundaries of technology.
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02-18-2025
Conservatory Wind Ensemble Concert
The UMKC Conservatory Wind Ensemble performs their first concert of the year.
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02-19-2025
Hero: The Boy from Troy
Hero: The Boy from Troy | Wednesday, Feb. 19 at 10am & 12:30 p.m. | Yardley Hall | A musical journey through the decades that shows how the heroes in the Civil Rights movement inspired young John Lewis to protest injustice & get into “good trouble.”
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02-19-2025
Conservatory Symphony Orchestra Concert
The UMKC Conservatory Symphony Orchestra performs with the winner of the Concerto/Aria competition.
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02-21-2025
The Addams Family
The Addams Family | Friday, Feb. 21 at 7:30 p.m. | Yardley Hall | The magnificently macabre hit musical features everyone’s favorite creepy, kooky characters.
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02-21-2025
The Gesualdo Six
In their Kansas City debut, The Gesualdo Six present a program full of ‘jewels in the crown’ of the Italian Renaissance entitled “Josquin’s Legacy” by tracing themes of pedagogy and patronage in northern Italy over 150 years.
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11-21-2024
Portrait of a City
“Portrait of a City ” brought together 49 photographers from across the Kansas City metro to create a collaborative portrait of the place we call home.
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02-22-2025
Alisa Amador Trio
Alisa Amador Trio | Sat,, Feb. 22 at 7:30 pm | Polsky Theatre | Her EP, “Narratives,” is a six-song snapshot in time. It’s a deep look at a person stumbling through life in 2 languages — English & Spanish — & in many states of mind about it all.
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02-13-2025
FENCES
“Fences” explores the complexities of family, race, and identity in 1950s Pittsburgh. Troy Maxson, a former baseball player turned sanitation worker, struggles to reconcile with his past while navigating the challenges of fatherhood and marriage.
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02-22-2025
Te Deum – Palestrina: Honoring the 500th Birthday of the Renaissance Master
Te Deum professional choral music ensemble presents Palestrina: Honoring the 500th Birthday of the Renaissance Master. | Saturday, February 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM, Visitation Catholic Church
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02-19-2025
The Inspector General
The UMKC Theatre presents The Inspector General, a satirical play by Nikolai Gogol.
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02-23-2025
Imani Winds/Boston Brass
Imani Winds & Boston Brass | Sun., Feb. 23 at 7 p.m. | Yardley Hall | Two powerhouse ensembles join forces to create a “super band” collaboration featuring the music of the iconic, multi-Grammy-winning musician and composer, Arturo Sandoval.
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02-23-2025
Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández
Founded in 1952 by dancer and choreographer Amalia Hernandez, Ballet Folklorico brings together the music, dance and costume of Mexican folklore from pre-Colombian civilizations through the modern era.
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02-25-2025
Czech National Symphony Steven Mercurio, conductor, Sandy Cameron, violin, Maxim Lando, piano
Led by Steven Mercurio, conductor, Sandy Cameron, violin, Maxim Lando, piano and continuously growing for 26 years, the CNSO has earned an enviable reputation among both Czech and Europe’s top symphonic ensembles.
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10-03-2024
West Coast Swing Dance | Leveled Classes and Dance party
The Thursday Night WCS party is your opportunity to join the local community for a night of dancing and enjoyment!
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02-28-2025
säje
GRAMMY(R) Award winning vocal supergroup, saje, make their Kansas City debut on the Folly Jazz Series!
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03-01-2025
Lee Brice: You, Me & My Guitar
Lee Brice continues his intimate acoustic tour, You, Me & My Guitar, bringing fans brand-new music with his recent singles, “Drinkin’ Buddies” and the nostalgic “Summer of Us.”
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03-01-2025
NEXUS No. 2
Combustion, confluence, and convergence in the performing arts; the NEXUS vision is to engage students in innovative and integrated performing arts initiatives that engage music, dance, and theatre within the Conservatory.
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02-11-2025
BROKE-OLOGY
Celebrating the legacy of Nathan Louis Jackson, we revisit this smart, enduring, and quietly powerful play fifteen years after it first moved audiences on our stage.
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03-03-2025
Campus Band Concert
The UMKC Campus Band performs their first concert of the year.
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03-04-2025
Shining a Light: 21st Century Music by Composers from Underrepresented Groups
UMKC Libraries present “Shining a Light: 21st Century Music by Composers from Underrepresented Groups” with support from the Elizabeth Noble Fund.
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03-05-2025
UMKC Composers’ Guild Concert No. 5
The UMKC Composers’ Guild presents the fifth concert in their series.
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03-06-2025
Goitse
Goitse | Thursday, Mar. 6 at 7:30 p.m. | Polsky Theatre | The popular and multi-award-winning quintet, Goitse, was forged in the white-hot creative crucible of Limerick’s Irish World Academy.
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03-07-2025
Leonidas Kavakos, violin and Daniil Trifonov, piano in duo recital
Two masterful virtuosos will appear together for the first time in an eclectic evening of works for violin and piano.
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03-07-2025
The Grammy-winning Kansas City Chorale: Gatsby Gala
Experience the glitz and glamour of the Roaring Twenties at the Kansas City Chorale’s Gatsby Gala, a spectacular choral concert and afterparty at The Loretto.
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02-06-2025
Tonalli, Teyolia, Ihiyotl: “The Spirits In Us”
“Tonalli, Teyolia, Ihiyotl “The Spirits In Us” opens February 6 and closes March 7 in the Carter Art Center Gallery, located at 3201 Southwest Trafficway in the Metropolitan Community College -Penn Valley.
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03-08-2025
Kids Jam – Pierce Freelon
Kids Jam – Pierce Freelon | Saturday, Mar. 8 at 11 a.m. | Polsky Theatre | Join us in the MTC lobby at 10 a.m. for art activities, followed by an hour-long concert with an acclaimed children’s musician.
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03-08-2025
Rhythm India: Bollywood and Beyond
Rhythm India | Saturday, Mar. 8 at 7:30 p.m. | Yardley Hall | Go on a journey of dance and celebration through “Bollywood and Beyond.”
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03-09-2025
Dirty Dancing in Concert
Dirty Dancing in Concert | Sunday, Mar. 9 at 7 p.m. | Yardley Hall | With a soundtrack that marked a generation, “Dirty Dancing in Concert” brings a thrilling new and unique experience to the ’80s classic.
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03-09-2025
UMKC Masterworks Choral Concert
Featuring the Conservatory Singers, Conservatory Concert Choir, and the Conservatory Orchestra.
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03-11-2025
Keb’ Mo’ & Shawn Colvin
Keb’ Mo’, award winning blues artist, Shawn Colvin, folk storyteller take to the stage for a musical performance you can’t miss.
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03-13-2025
Opus 76 Quartet Signature Series IV: Schumann & Brahms
Join us for a night of beautiful music with the Opus 76 Quartet playing Schumann and Brahms!
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03-13-2025
2nd Thursday Recital
Come join us for a Noon-day recital. We feature musicians based in greater Kansas City who perform styles from early to new, jazz, opera and anywhere between. Meet the Artist afterward in a small reception with cookies and lemonade.
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03-14-2025
Park ICM Presents David Radzynski and Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich
March 14, 2025 7:30 p.m. 1900 Building, 1900 Shawnee Mission Parkway, Mission Woods, Kansas 66205
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03-15-2025
An Evening with Branford Marsalis
New Orleans-born saxophonist Branford Marsalis is one of the most influential and revered figures in contemporary music. See the Branford Marsalis Quartet LIVE at the Folly on March 15!
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03-16-2025
“R.E.S.P.E.C.T.” — A Celebration of the Music of Aretha Franklin
“R.E.S.P.E.C.T.” | Sunday, Mar. 16 at 7 p.m. | Yardley Hall | You’ll be out of your seat and dancing in the aisles as you lose yourself in the music that inspired a generation.
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03-21-2025
Thomas Dunford in Recital
Dubbed by BBC Early Music Magazine “the Eric Clapton of the lute,” Thomas Dunford makes his Kansas City debut in a captivating program.
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01-11-2025
Fact & Fiction
Gentry Mullen has a distinct visual voice painting with alkyd – a type of oil paint with a hard-drying resin – predominantly on cut wood or paper, combining graphic surface design with elements of illustrative storytelling.
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03-28-2025
Trey McLaughlin & The Sounds of Zamar
Trey McLaughlin & The Sounds of Zamar | Friday, Mar. 28 at 7:30 p.m. | Yardley Hall | Featuring soul-stirring arrangements of contemporary gospel, musical theatre, and rich original compositions.
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03-28-2025
Leonkoro String Quartet
The winners of the Wigmore Hall Quartet Competition, Leonkoro String Quartet, in their Kansas City debut, offer a multifaceted program with music by Haydn, Berg, Shaw, and Mendelssohn.
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03-29-2025
Trailblazing Women of Country: From Patsy to Loretta to Dolly
Trailblazing Women of Country | Saturday, Mar. 29 at 7:30 p.m. | Yardley Hall | Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, and Dolly Parton revolutionized country music and blazed a trail for future generations of female artists.
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03-27-2025
Lyric Opera of Kansas City – “Maya and the Magic Ring”
“Maya and the Magic Ring” | Thur.-Sun., Mar. 27-30 | times vary | Polsky Theatre | Be careful what you wish for! An opera for families with music by Lori Laitman and libretto by Dana Gioia.
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04-05-2025
Helen Sung Meets Bach Aria Soloists
Acclaimed jazz pianist and composer Helen Sung meets Kansas City’s own Bach Aria Soloists for a world premiere performance! BAS commissioned Sung to compose a work celebrating Bach as the OG improviser, the foundations of jazz.
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04-05-2025
Heartland Men’s Chorus at The White Theatre
Proudly singing out in Kansas City since 1986, Heartland Men’s Chorus brings its “choral theater” format to The White Theatre, which uses music, narration, and multi-media to illustrate social issues.
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04-10-2025
2nd Thursday Recital: Washington University Choir
Come join us for a Noon-day recital. We feature musicians based in greater Kansas City who perform styles from early to new, jazz, opera and anywhere between. Meet the Artist afterward in a small reception with cookies and lemonade.
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04-11-2025
Omnium Circus: “I’m Possible”
Omnium Circus | Friday, Apr. 11 at 7 p.m. | Yardley Hall | A world renowned, fully inclusive circus company bringing excitement, thrills and joy to the young and young at heart as only a circus can!
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04-11-2025
Les Arts Florissants with Théotime Langlois de Swarte, violin
Presenting Vivaldi’s Four Seasons at 300. When published in 1725 nobody could imagine Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons would become perhaps the most frequently heard music of all time. Yet today, 300 years on, they remain as popular as ever.
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12-08-2024
Second Sunday – Free Days at the Museum
All attendees can explore the Museum at no charge.
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04-03-2025
2025 MCC Student Art Exhibition
Join us for the district-wide Metropolitan Community College’s juried student art exhibition, hosted at the Carter Art Center Gallery (located at MCC – Penn Valley).
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04-19-2025
Uptown
Uptown | Saturday, Apr. 19 at 7:30 p.m. | Yardley Hall | The perfect mix of Bruno Mars-caliber stage presence with the vocals of Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye. You’ve never seen anything like Uptown!
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04-15-2025
First Generation
Spinning Tree Theatre proudly produces the world premiere play “First Generation” by Kansas City-based playwright Victor Wishna.
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04-19-2025
The Grammy-winning Kansas City Chorale: Spring Song
The Chorale’s much loved celebration of Spring and the Easter season. This one-hour concert is performed in the lush acoustic and visual splendor of Kirkwood Hall at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
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04-25-2025
Park ICM Orchestra Season Finale With Guest Conductor Barbara Yahr
Friday, April 25, 2025 7:30 p.m. Graham Tyler Memorial Chapel, 8700 NW River Park Drive, Parkville, MO
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04-25-2025
“Voyage de passion”
A phenomenal concert celebrating the riveting abandon of francophone passion.
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04-25-2025
“The Pa’akai We Bring”
“The Pa’akai We Bring” | Fri.-Sat., Apr. 25-26 | times vary | Yardley Hall | Mixing in ancient stories, hula, live music, original songs, and plenty of audience participation into a tasty potluck of performance, joyously served up with aloha.
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04-26-2025
Golda’s Balcony, Starring Iris Bahr
Broadway applauded this reworking of the author’s 1977 play into a complex one-woman tour-de-force.
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05-01-2025
esk and Silverback Films present “Our Planet Live” – A Netflix Documentary Series
“Our Planet Live” | Thur.-Fri., May 1-2 | times vary | Polsky Theatre | Featuring behind-the-scenes stories from the explorers, filmmakers, scientists, and adventurers that created some of the most eye-catching footage of our planet.
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05-02-2025
Yellow Roses and Green Hills
Highlighting a concerto celebrating the band’s new timpani!
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05-03-2025
Kids Jam – Mister G
Kids Jam – Mister G | Saturday, May 3 at 11 a.m. | Polsky Theatre | Join us in the MTC lobby at 10 a.m. for art activities, followed by an hour-long concert with an acclaimed children’s musician.
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05-04-2025
Heritage Philharmonic 80th Anniversary Celebration Concert
The Heritage Philharmonic is celebrating its 80th anniversary with a concert in Helzberg Hall at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.
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02-03-2025
Kansas City Musical Club – Monthly Concert Series
The Kansas City Musical Club will host a concert Monday October 7th
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05-07-2025
Park ICM in Partnership with NAVO Presents Stanislav Ioudenitch and Maria Ioudenitch
Wednesday, May 7, 2025 7:30 p.m. 1900 Building, 1900 Shawnee Mission Parkway, Mission Woods, Kansas 66205
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05-08-2025
2nd Thursday Recital: St. Petersburg String Quartet
Come join us for a Noon-day recital. We feature musicians based in greater Kansas City who perform styles from early to new, jazz, opera and anywhere between. Meet the Artist afterward in a small reception with cookies and lemonade.
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05-09-2025
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Master Pianist
In a monumental feat of artistry and endurance, the master pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet will bring the 49th Season of the Friends to a magnificent close by performing the complete piano works of Maurice Ravel.
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05-10-2025
Opus 76 Quartet with David Kim, violin
Opus 76 Quartet with David Kim, violin | Saturday, May 10 at 2 p.m. | Polsky Theatre | Performing Brahms’ G Minor Sextet and Tchaikovsky’s “Souvenir de Florence.”
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05-01-2025
Family Sideshow
In this dark comedy, a dysfunctional family reunites for a chaotic and absurd night of revelations, confrontations, and unexpected twists, all unfolding under the glow of the family’s carnival sideshow held at the theater.
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05-01-2025
2025 MCC Graphic Design Portfolio Exhibition
Join us for the annual MCC Graphic Design Portfolio exhibition and see what our graphic design students have been creating! This is an exciting opportunity for our students to meet the community, and showcase their skills to the public.
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05-16-2025
The Brother Brothers
The Brother Brothers | Friday, May 16 at 7:30 p.m. | Polsky Theatre | They are the kind of people who have a story about everything, and more so, one you might genuinely like to hear.
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05-16-2025
The Grammy-winning Kansas City Chorale: The Lost Birds
Join Charles Bruffy and the Grammy-winning Kansas City Chorale at 7:30 PM on Friday, May 16, at Village Presbyterian Church in Prairie Village, KS, for The Lost Birds, a stirring concert that pays tribute to bird species driven to extinction.
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05-06-2025
EMMA
“With screwball comedy and surprises aplenty, this fresh, fast-paced [production] interprets the Jane Austen classic with delightful unconventional flair.” – BroadwayWorld
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05-31-2025
Te Deum – Harmony of Connections: Barber’s Reincarnations and American composers
Te Deum professional choral music ensemble presents Harmony of Connections: Barber’s Reincarnations and American Composers . | Saturday, May 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM, St. Mary’s Episcopal Church
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06-01-2025
Te Deum – Harmony of Connections: Barber’s Reincarnations and American composers
Te Deum professional choral music ensemble presents Harmony of Connections: Barber’s Reincarnations and American Composers . | Sunday, June 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM, Village Presbyterian Church
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06-01-2025
Kinnor Philharmonic Summer Concert
Kick your summer off with our artists-in-residence, Kinnor Philharmonic, as they perform amazing music with a Jewish twist.
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06-20-2025
Harmonious Horizons: Music of Maria Schneider
Free concert showcasing Maria Schneider’s jazz works
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06-20-2025
The Alien Logs of Super Jewels
Spinning Tree Theatre proudly presents the Kansas City premiere of the musical “The Alien Logs of Super Jewels,” based on the award-winning book by BK Bradshaw.
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07-05-2025
West Side Story
From the first notes to the final breath, “West Side Story” is one of the most memorable musicals and greatest love stories of all time.
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09-13-2025
Stuff of Dreams – A New Musical
A struggling Midwest community theatre is chosen to be first in the nation to perform the hottest show on Broadway, “Betsy Ross: Seams of Dreams.”
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