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.

This show will be set up much like Broadway's virtual release of Ratatouille, where singers are filmed separately and by the magic of video editing are brought together for a magic night of stunning performances. With iconic and beloved songs by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, you'll walk away humming all of your favorites. Several powerhouse singers are returning after their recent performances in The White Theatre's production of Something Rotten, including Tom Nelson, Matt Fowler, Krista Eyler, Ron Meyer, Karen Blackmon, and Fisher Stewart. We are also proud to feature 2021 Broadway World’s “Regional Performer of the Decade”, Kelly Urschel, who also starred in The White Theatre’s production of Newsies,  Ruth Bigus, and two members of The White Theatre staff,  Megan Segars and  Keith Wiedenkeller round out this stellar performance.

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.

Our next installment of  LIVE! from the Lounge series features vocalist Connie Dover! Acclaimed by the Boston Globe as “the finest folk ballad singer America has produced since Joan Baez,” Connie Dover is a singer, poet, and Emmy-winning producer and composer.   Her ravishing interpretations of the intertwining of Scottish, Irish, and American folk songs display a depth and breadth of range that have earned her a place among the world’s finest traditional singers. We will premier the live show filmed at the Folly Theater Joan Kent Dillon Lounge.  Please follow our Facebook page and our YouTube channel for info on this premier.

Four professional black dancers living and working in Kansas City share their journeys on navigating dance careers in the American Ballet World.
Moderated by Allan S. Gray II, a respected Kansas City business professional and community leader, each panelist will impart their unique dance experiences, perspectives on diversity, inclusion and equity in ballet and  respond to questions from the community sent in advance of the panel, as well as during the panel.
Panelists

April Berry, Former apprentice and ballerina with ballet companies in New York, New Jersey and Washington, D.C., current Director of Community Engagement and Education at Kansas City Ballet and Kansas City Ballet School faculty member.
Karen Brown, Former ballerina with Dance Theatre of Harlem, current Assistant Professor of Dance at University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC) Conservatory.
Josh Bodden, former danseur with Miami City Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Cincinnati Ballet, current danseur with Kansas City Ballet and Kansas City Ballet School faculty member.
Whitney Huell, Former ballerina with Ballet West, current ballerina with Kansas City Ballet and Kansas City Ballet School faculty member.

The five-time Tony Award-nominated musical Rock of Ages will play a one-night only, bi-coastal livestream jamfest of its hit music with Rock of Ages: All-Star Reunion Concert on Saturday, April 24 at 7 p.m., and Starlight audiences gain exclusive access with Starlight@Home. Featuring a “super group” of Rock of Ages stars from across the globe, the Rock of Ages: All-Star Reunion Concert will feature live performances of the greatest hits of the 1980s like you’ve never heard them before. They’ll blast worldwide right off the legendary Sunset Strip itself, from the Rock of Ages Hollywood stage at The Bourbon Room, with special surprise performances from New York City. The night will be tailor-made for audiences yearning to stream at the top of their lungs—whether a long-time fan, or someone just lookin’ for “nuthin’ but a good time” to break up a year of zoom meetings. The musical Rock of Ages opened on Broadway in 2009 and played for nearly six years to widespread critical and audience acclaim. It gained international success with successful runs in Toronto, Australia, London’s West End and more. In 2012, Rock of Ages hit the silver screen as a major motion picture starring Tom Cruise.

The five-time Tony Award-nominated musical Rock of Ages will play a one-night only, bi-coastal livestream jamfest of its hit music with Rock of Ages: All-Star Reunion Concert on Saturday, April 24 at 7 p.m., and Starlight audiences gain exclusive access with Starlight@Home.
Featuring a “super group” of Rock of Ages stars from across the globe, the Rock of Ages: All-Star Reunion Concert will feature live performances of the greatest hits of the 1980s like you’ve never heard them before. They’ll blast worldwide right off the legendary Sunset Strip itself, from the Rock of Ages Hollywood stage at The Bourbon Room, with special surprise performances from New York City. The night will be tailor-made for audiences yearning to stream at the top of their lungs—whether a long-time fan, or someone just lookin’ for “nuthin’ but a good time” to break up a year of zoom meetings.
The musical Rock of Ages opened on Broadway in 2009 and played for nearly six years to widespread critical and audience acclaim. It gained international success with successful runs in Toronto, Australia, London’s West End and more. In 2012, Rock of Ages hit the silver screen as a major motion picture starring Tom Cruise.

Mac, an adjunct lecturer, and Nessa, a freshman, have a lot in common. They’re slightly awkward, deeply passionate about Homer’s The Odyssey, and are Black in a very white department at a very white school. They stumble upon the discovery that Homer himself came from Africa, and must figure out how best to honor this truth in the face of university administrators, overbearing older siblings, the Internet, and Homer himself. Homeridae is a play about who controls the narrative, and about finding your voice when it seems like no one is listening.
Free to All. Donations encouraged. Proceeds will benefit Aids Walk Kansas City

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!

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Kansas City Ballet presents Spring Dance Speaks: New Voices, New Moves is a part of Kansas City Ballet's commitment to engage the community-at-large with a unique educational series.
New Moves choreographers and cinematographers with KCB Artistic Director Devon Carney share the impetus and creative process in rehearsing and filming works in various Kansas City community spaces for presentation.
Moderated by Artistic Director Devon Carney.
CHOREOGRAPHERS:Yury Yanowsky, Ben Needham-Wood, Price Suddarth, Christopher Costantini, Cameron Thomas and Emily Mistretta.
CINEMATOGRAPHERS:Chris Burrow and Cody Boston.

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.