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The question may be met with chagrin by traditionalists, but to some, the identity of William Shakespeare is not positively decided. They ha...

Kansas City’s Mark English was a top magazine illustrator for more than four decades, his work appearing in TIME, Sports...

U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II and his wife, Dianne Cleaver, honor the area’s young artists in A Voyage of...

Established in 2005, the Kansas City Fringe Festival has grown into a 10-day celebration of theater, visual arts, film, dance, and music. This year’s...

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Between 1942 and 1964, as many as 300,000 Mexican laborers—called braceros—were employed as farmhands or railroad workers in the United...

Martin Espada, widely recognized as “the Latino poet of his generation,” joins Angela Elam from New Letters on t...

The Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre premieres its eighth season of Script-in-Hand performances – a series of classi...

Patrick Rosal’s poetry, writes one critic, “skillfully navigates between despair and love, between violence and music, between los...

The plays and poetry of William Shakespeare have had an immense impact on the English language, on theater, and on cinema. But the Bard’s words have a...