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Arts & Culture
Signature Event
Sunday, December 2, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Architectural historian Keith Eggener looks at the heritage of architect Louis Curtiss (1865-1924), often describ...
Signature Event
Saturday, November 17, 2012
7:30pm
In Person
The plays and poetry of William Shakespeare have inspired some of the world’s most beautiful music.
This performance by members of the...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Think you know Charles Dickens? Help celebrate the bicentennial of the great Victorian novelist’s birth with a special performance by...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 21, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Peabody Award-winning radio personality Michael Lasser explores the songs inspired by our town, from “Everything’s Up To Date in...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 11, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Dennis Domer looks at the evolution of architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s interior designs in which every element is intended to be not o...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 7, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Staged by the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre, this work, along with The Hindu and the Cowboy on Oct. 1st, is based on stor...
Signature Event
Friday, October 5, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Dissident playwright Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) went from satirizing Czechoslovakia’s Communist leaders to become the first president o...
Signature Event
Monday, October 1, 2012
7:00pm
In Person
Staged by the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre, this work, along with Bingo on the Boulevard on October 7th, is based on sto...
Signature Event
Saturday, September 15, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Actor and author John Lithgow offers an entertaining afternoon of insight, anecdotes, and readings.
Lithgow, a Tony and Emmy award...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Officials at the University of Missouri-Kansas City recently announced their intention to relocate many of their fine arts efforts to downtown. Planne...