"Glorious" looks at Florence Foster Jenkins

Every now and then, a figure appears on the pop-culture radar whose celebrity can be explained only by our inability to avert our eyes from the disaster.

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"Kimberly Akimbo" interview with Karen Paisley

Tonight, local theatergoers will have a chance to immerse themselves in the work of playwright David Lindsay-Abaire for the third time in this millennium. The Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre staging of his “Kimberly Akimbo,” which opens tonight, follows Unicorn Theatre productions of “The Rabbit Hole” in 2007 and “Fuddy Meers” in 2001.

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"White Christmas" review by Brian McTavish

“Well, that was fun.” So says a smiling cast member following one of the many sparkling production numbers in White Christmas. Indeed, the satisfying stage version of the classic 1954 Hollywood movie musical left smiles all around after Tuesday’s opening-night performance at the Music Hall.

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Extras needed this weekend

Shooting Sunday, Jan 10 in the West Bottoms for musical film “A Lover’s Riot”. Need as many extras to show up for a couple hours as possible. Hang out and be in a film! We need extras between 12-4pm, if you can only be there a hour or so prefer 1-2pm for the big crane shots. All extras should dress in monochromatic colors, heavy winter clothing and if possible more worn/dirty/haggard. No logos. Welcome accessories include gym bags, messenger bags, sleeping bags etc that they can wear on their person.  They are all welcome to bring whomever would like to be in the film. We will meet at the intersection of Sante Fe and St. Louis Road in the West Bottoms just north of the old Catacombs Haunted Houses. Mapquest this address – 1200 St. Louis Ave, Kansas City, MO 64101. Contact Adam Roberts, wasteofmindfilms@gmail.com, 816-728-2326.

Horton Foote Prize for new American plays

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A new prize honoring the work of American playwrights has been established in the memory of late Academy Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Horton Foote.

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Advocacy Council Meeting

UPDATE: This meeting has been postponed due to the weather.

The second meeting of the Advocacy Council facilitated by the Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City will take place Wednesday, January 6, at the American Jazz Museum from 12:00 to 1:30pm. Guest speakers will be Mike Burke with King Hershey, PC, who recently announced his intention to run for Mayor of KC, MO; and Annabeth Surbaugh, Chairman of the Board for the Board of County Commissioners - Johnson County. Chairman Surbaugh will be running for reelection. A more detailed agenda will follow next week. This invitation is being extended to all arts organizations, arts councils, and individual artists in the metropolitan area, please plan to join us.

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"Red Light Winter" review by Alan Scherstuhl

Everyone in Red Light Winter, right down to the whore, is big on Tom Waits and the corresponding idea that a fucked-up life is a romantic one. Soaked through with sex and ennui, the play — a dark comedy by Adam Rapp running in the tiny Fishtank studio — revels in grimy bedrooms, unrequited love, and the fantasy of achieving transcendence with a call girl. It's funny, it's occasionally sexy, and it's written and performed with the knockabout verve of rock and roll.

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Advocacy council meeting: UPDATE

UPDATE: This meeting has been postponed due to the weather.

The second meeting of the Advocacy Council facilitated by the Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City will take place Wednesday, January 6, at the American Jazz Museum from 12:00 to 1:30pm. Guest speakers will be Mike Burke with King Hershey, PC, who recently announced his intention to run for Mayor of KC, MO; and Annabeth Surbaugh, Chairman of the Board for the Board of County Commissioners - Johnson County. Chairman Surbaugh will be running for reelection. A more detailed agenda will follow next week. This invitation is being extended to all arts organizations, arts councils, and individual artists in the metropolitan area, please plan to join us.

more at ArtsKC