Arts & Culture

Watch pianist Anastasia Vorotnaya's moving performance for Park International Center of Music.

KC Performs | A Moving Piece by Pianist Anastasia Vorotnaya

Watch Anastasia Vorotnaya’s moving performance of “Sonata No. 2.” Vorotnaya is one of 30 students at Park International Center of Music.

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Singer Melinda MacDonald performs Stephen Sondheim's "Send In The Clowns."

KC Performs | Creating Performance Spaces Outside

Enjoy Musical Theater Heritage’s production of “Send in the Clowns” from Stephen Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music” performed by Melinda MacDonald.

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Dacer Whitney Huell poses, arms outstretched diagonally, for her performance of "What Angel Wakes Me" from a Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Scene I.

KC Performs | This Ballet Number is Bound to Mesmerize

Get swept away in Whitney Huell’s magical performance of “What Angel Wakes Me” from a Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Scene I.

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KC Performs | Park ICM - Kenny Broberg plays "Nikolai Medtner, Fairytale"

KC Performs | Park ICM’s Kenny Broberg Plays a Nikolai Medtner “Fairy Tale”

KC Performs | Park ICM’s Kenny Broberg plays a Nikolai Medtner “Fairy Tale.”

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Ballet Street Project performance.

KC Performs | Ballet Street Project Gives Us a Lift

The Ballet Street Project was created by local ballet dancers pushed off their normal stage by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Violinist Igor Khukhua performs

KC Performs | Park ICM Provides Precious Training Ground for World-Class Soloists

A performing arts treasure can be found at the Park International Center for Music, a renowned program at Park University.

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Painter and poet Albert Bloch.

Art House Extra | Is Albert Bloch the Greatest Artist You’ve Never Heard Of?

A new documentary, “AB: The Life and Work of Albert Bloch,” seeks to elevate the reputation of one of the founding members of the expressionism movement.

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A crowd at recordBar

Missouri’s Struggling Live Venues Beseech Gov. Mike Parson: ‘We’re looking for a lifeline here’

This week, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson received a letter from the Missouri Entertainment Alliance asking for funds to save the state’s live-entertainment industry.

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Laugh-O-Gram studio building

New Strategy Touted to Reanimate Disney Laugh-O-Gram Building

Backers of the effort to reanimate the historic Laugh-O-Gram building where Walt Disney got his start a century ago believe a new mixed-use approach will enable them to complete the languishing project.

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The 2020 World AIDS Day Mural

Kansas City’s World AIDS Day Mural Delivers a Message: Stigma = Hate

A new mural created by the AIDS Service Foundation of Greater Kansas City seeks to destigmatize being HIV-positive.

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