KC Repertory "Carousel" preview by Robert Trussell

Rusty Sneary remembers it as a crazy idea over beers at a Crossroads watering hole, the Brick. The combination lunch spot, bar and live alternative music venue has become a familiar hangout for people in the downtown arts scene. So what better place for young theater artists to cook up a rule-breaking show that forced audiences to look at an old musical in a new way?

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Lyric Opera "Flying Dutchman" preview by Paul Horsley

If you really want to know who Richard Wagner is, The Flying Dutchman is a good place to start. For not only is this the first opera in which the composer began to experiment with the revolutionary musico-dramatic ideas that would later transform opera as we know it, but it is also a German opera of its time, with gorgeous Italianate arias and duets that sound like they could come from Bellini or Verdi – or indeed from some of Wagner’s German or French contemporaries.

more at the Independent

Lunaire d'Etoile, KC Burlesque Festival performance

Lunaire d'Etoile stuns the audience with her sultry Burlesque performance to the songs The Silencers by Vikki Carr and You Only Live Twice by Nancy Sinatra at the beautiful Uptown Theater.

Lunaire d'Etoile sings A Guy What Takes His Time at Crosstown Station to a sold out house.

Musical Theater Heritage "Sunday in the Park with George" preview by Kellie Houx

In the musical, Sunday in the Park with George, painter Georges Seurat represents lyricist and composer Stephen Sondheim and his own journey through the creative process. For the creative team at Musical Theater Heritage, this theme resonates loud and clear. The musical runs March 28-April 14 at the Off Centre Theatre in Crown Center.

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Children's Performing Theatre "Charlotte's Web" preview by Kelly Evenson

Even the nearly 20 inches of snow dumped on Eastern Jackson County in the last week is not enough to keep Wilbur, Charlotte and Templeton from making their stage appearance this weekend.

more at the Examiner

True/False Film Festival preview by Laura Spencer

Indonesian gang culture. The hunt for Osama bin Laden. Sunbathers, barbecuers and swimmers at a national park in Israel. Life in a Karachi orphanage. These are just some of the subjects explored in the nearly 40 films scheduled for this year's True/False Film Fest.

more at Central Standard

Andrew Droz Palermo "Rich Hill" interview by Allie Hinga

On a Wednesday in early February, Andrew Droz Palermo was standing in a high school principal's office in the southwest Missouri town of Rich Hill.

more at the Missourian

Eddie Moore "Freedom of Expression" review by J.P. McNamara

Some might think of jazz as an art form of the past, that it seems like something from a different time, a form of art that is lovingly re-enacted by devotee’s, correctly citing its era and context with every note played: culture in a vacuum. This opinion, if you’re asking me, is false. Young musicians are forging a new path for themselves within jazz’s storied halls. Taking perspectives from today’s culture and adapting it for the modern audience, jazz it seems, is becoming more of a tool or skill set, rather than a genre of music. It’s a frame of mind that welcomes all influence and culture. It’s a new adaptive jazz that is porous, eager to digest and accumulates elements of music it once informed. Don’t call it a come back.

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