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At Studios Inc., Robert Bingaman's pools run deep
What happens when an artist traces a chosen symbol, subject or idea to its limits? What happens when the artist brings us with him over that journey's full trajectory?…
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Now playing: Junk at the Living Room Theatre
Late addendum to the list "Things That Make You Nostalgic for Leaning Against Buildings and Smoking Cloves": Emma Carter's Junk, a hip, homegrown play stretching its legs at the Living Room. Carter's...
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Christopher Kurtz's sculptures demand a tactile response in a strictly...
Natural light streams in through the long windows above the Belger Crane Yard Studios gallery. In the middle of the floor, a thorny bramble reaches for the opposite wall, anchored to the ground on...
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Subterranean Gallery's Melaney Mitchell prepares to move up and out
While presidential candidates ponder how to "make America great again," Subterranean Gallery director Melaney Mitchell is asking a different, better question: How do you make an alternative space...
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At the Living Room, an effective Pontypool dials up the blood
If you're looking for Broadway belting or Shakespearean saber-rattling, you can take your pick from a handful of local theaters. But if you want to watch someone bite into a battery and projectile...
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Actor and director Mark Robbins finds beauty and connection in his work
Mark Robbins is one of those actors who lends marquee appeal to local shows. Even if he may not think so.…
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Dylan Mortimer's struggles lead to a Cure
As an artist known for making impressively scaled signs and combining hip-hop symbols with references to Christianity — Google him and his brilliant Prayer Booths still come up first — Dylan Mortimer...
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Nerds of Nostalgia takes its podcast out of the basement and into Tapcade
The nerds are out of the basement. Over the past year, Greg Dedrick and Jenius McGee have taken their Nerds of Nostalgia podcast above ground and in front of audiences.…
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What's the right price for KCAT's strong reading of A Number?
If you picked up the script today, A Number, a nimble one-act by English playwright and reigning dialogue queen Caryl Churchill, might feel dated. The play's conceit, human cloning, has cooled...
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Actor, director (and comic) Walter Coppage reaches out and within
Walter Coppage's deep, resonant voice is one key to his strong stage presence. The Pitch awarded him Best Actor in 2009 for his role of Stage Manager in the Coterie's production of Our Town, and Best...
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Local drag queens Spice up your life this weekend
Late on a Sunday aftrernoon, in the dressing room behind the stage at Missie B's, five drag queens are scattered in various states of dress. Ryan Chambers (known as Genewa Stanwyck) stands in the...
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Front/Space's Hot Hands fundraiser is a big deal for art spotters and collectors
For a little more than five years, Front/Space has been an alternative showcase for artists, musicians and vendors in a matchbox-size storefront on 18th Street, booking projects whose ambition is...
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An unusual collaboration takes an even stranger turn, thanks to the Supreme...
The day playwright Michelle T. Johnson met reporter Mike McGraw, two firefighters died battling a blaze in northeast Kansas City. It seemed both sinister omen and uncanny coincidence.…
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February's First Friday is heavy on retrospectives
Next month, the National Ceramics Education Conference (NCECA) returns to Kansas City after six years and takes over almost every gallery in the metro, and some places are getting a head start — or at...
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How to Steal a Picasso, at the Unicorn, is funny but a little too easy
Aspiring art thieves, take note: There's less heist than hijinx in the Unicorn's How to Steal a Picasso. The farce, a world premiere by playwright William Missouri Downs, is an entertaining (if...
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The Fugitive Slave Act gets personal at the Coterie
Law of the land or moral law? Given the choice, which do you follow?…
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Dark Days, Bright Nights: Contemporary Paintings from Finland reveals warmth...
With daylight still limited and the air still subject to arctic blasts, the time is right to see Dark Days, Bright Nights, in its waning days at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. The collection...
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Wendy Red Star poses haunting questions in Parading Culture at the Haw
Wendy Red Star gets the first laugh and the last in Parading Culture (Tokens, Gold, and Glory), her solo exhibition at Haw Contemporary. Her humorous, diorama-style "The Four Seasons" photographs make...
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KC Rep's The Diary of Anne Frank brings ghosts intimately to life
It's a familiar story to most of us, yet the Kansas City Repertory Theatre's revival of The Diary of Anne Frank (by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, adapted here by Wendy Kesselman) more than...
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Spinning Tree's diverting 13 reawakens your inner teenager
Those early teenage years you've safely filed away in your brain's hard drive? Spinning Tree Theatre's production of 13 calls them up for you.…
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See this now: Chris Weaver's "Over Burdened Jackalope"
To evade capture, jackalopes are said to mimic human speech and timbre — when, that is, they don't go on the offensive, goring the tender groins of gullible hunters. Such are the contradictions that...
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At MET, The Skin of Our Teeth finds humor and hope in the human trek
Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre doesn't typically shy from challenging, lengthy, large-cast productions, and its latest project, Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Skin of Our Teeth, ranks...
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KC Ballet's first full-length Swan Lake goes over gracefully
I can think of no greater disappointment in the appearance-versus-reality department than the swan. What an image of grace she seems: a long-necked, snow-white bird, gliding serenely across a glassy...
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From hours-long Shakespeare to one-minute plays, director Sidonie Garrett...
Even offstage, Sidonie Garrett is in the spotlight. She has been the executive artistic director of the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival since making the festival's Twelfth Night "a spirited...
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Firing up First Friday ahead of March's big ceramics conference
It's a good thing that Oklahoma's fracking earthquakes cause only tiny tremors here in KC, because almost every gallery in the area (including Lawrence) is full of breakables right now. March 16-19,...
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