Introducing ArtSpark: a brand new web-series from KCRep! Tap into the pulse of Kansas City’s art scene to ignite your own creative spark! Join Yetunde Felix-Ukwu, our Artistic Associate, as she engages with the artists who are shaping Kansas City and beyond to discover what gets their creative impulses firing. ArtSpark is a digital studio that offers collaboration with artists from diverse mediums to explore and inspire artistic expression.

New Moves: the broadcast series has been extended an additional 6 weeks due to popular demand! All original works filmed in beautiful iconic settings throughout the greater Kansas City area, including American Jazz Museum, Charlotte Street Foundation, The Gem Theater at American Jazz Museum, National WWI Museum and Memorial, Union Station Kansas City Inc. and Kansas City Art Institute
Each episode includes bonus features such as interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, and more. These free 20-minute episodes will be released every Thursday at 7 p.m. CDT, beginning April 15 through May 20.
Join us each week to see all-new work from choreographers Price Suddarth, Ben Needham-Wood, Yury Yanowsky and KCB Dancers Christopher Costantini, Emily Mistretta and Cameron Thomas.

This Spring, The Coterie presents Mesner Puppet Theater’s premiere production of How to Snag a Sea Monster: A Terrifically Tall Tale, an all masked, socially distanced, live show with an online streaming option available for those who are unable to attend in person. An adaptation of the endearing American folktales of Stormy Stormalong, How to Snag a Sea Monster will perform for families with ages five and older live on The Coterie’s stage in Crown Center, April 30 – May 30, with the streaming version available for families and virtual school field trips beginning May 5, 2021. In How to Snag a Sea Monster: A Terrifically Tall Tale, after a monstrous wave washes a creature ashore, the people of a small Cape Cod town hear it wailing. What they initially fear might be a sea monster, turns out to be a baby as big as a house. The village adopts the giant baby, whom they name Stormalong, or 'Stormy' for short, but growing to over 24 feet, Stormy struggles to fit in, and eventually chooses a life at sea aboard a clipper ship to find a place in the world. Meanwhile, when a bullying sea monster, the colossal kraken, does come to torment the village... only Stormy is big enough to save them all!

Edgar Meyer will play a rare solo performance that will expand musical horizons and reimagine traditional boundaries of the double bass. Meyer’s anticipated program includes his own arrangement of Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1, original bluegrass compositions, and his newest work that explores the sonic possibilities of the bass as a solo instrument. Hailed by The New Yorker as “the most remarkable virtuoso in the relatively unchronicled history of his instrument,” Edgar Meyer’s unparalleled technique and musicianship in combination with his gift for composition have brought him to greater stardom. His uniqueness in the field was recognized by both a MacArthur Fellowship and an Avery Fisher Prize; Meyer is the only bassist ever to receive either of these esteemed accolades.
This concert will have a socially distanced audience and all in-person tickets are sold out.

With virtual classes now available to youth nationwide and in-person classes held at Crown Center at The Coterie Theatre, Pembroke Hill on The Plaza, Miller Marley School of Dance and Voice in Overland Park, and at the Liberty Community Center in Liberty, The Coterie’s classes are led by a staff of professional, trained teaching artists and are focused on a process-based curriculum. Classes for s incoming Grades K-12 begin June 7, with additional classes starting throughout June and July. All in-person classes will be socially-distanced, masked (both instructor and students), and will adhere to safety protocols (detailed on our website). Whether virtual or in-person, all Coterie classes are designed to engage students intellectually, emotionally, and physically. Using lesson plans that focus on the growth of each student individually, process-based learning establishes a foundation of invaluable skills that all acting training builds on, including important life skills that will be useful to any growing mind, whether or not acting may be in their future. Classes are limited to ten students per class and above to ensure teaching artists can see and respond to every student, encouraging active participation. In virtual classes, parents of younger children are encouraged to participate in with their child, leading to interactive play that lets loose the child’s imagination and becomes part of the larger story being created by the class. To register or for the latest class schedules and location information, visit www.thecoterie.org. Questions may be directed to class registrar, Annette Filippi, at afilippi@coterietheatre.org or 816.474.4241. Financial assistance is available as needed. Contact Amanda Kibler at akibler@coterietheatre.org to apply.

June 12 and 13, 2021, the Kauffman Center will debut a weekend of FREE compelling performance videos, engaging youth-friendly activities and one-of-a-kind live-streamed content, all available through the Center’s website and social media channels. In response to COVID-19 and with the health and safety of our performers, partners, guests, volunteers and staff top of mind, the Kauffman Center decided to move the event to a virtual stage.