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After all the exhausting glitz of the holiday season, Crown Uptowns Matthew Rumsey figures that audiences are ready for a change of pace to ease into the new year.
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After all the exhausting glitz of the holiday season, Crown Uptowns Matthew Rumsey figures that audiences are ready for a change of pace to ease into the new year.
The Fiber Studio will hold the closing reception for its “7 Ceramic Viewpoints” as part of the Final Friday monthly art crawl. The show features multiple functional and abstract pieces from area artists. Gallery owner Marilyn Grisham says it’s an opportunity to offer a high standard of artistry at affordable prices.
Sitting down is now an artful affair at Old Cowtown Museum.
The Kansas Aviation Museum wants to propel visitors to explore history, and its Cessna through the Years: A Manufacturing Odyssey exhibit is one way to do that. The exhibit, which opened last week, aims to tell the story of the seminal company’s force in the local economy, as well as distinguish Cessna’s place in the national air-manufacturing industry. The takeoff of the show marks a pivotal moment in the celebration of Cessna. It’s also an important step forward for the museum.
The Wichita Symphony is getting ready to give its annual holiday gift to the city.
Composer-lyricist Paul Jackson is sort of Wichita’s answer to Stephen Sondheim (think “Sweeney Todd”) with his first full-length musical, an original new take on “Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: A Spirited New Musical” that premiered at the Forum Theatre for Performing Arts.
Crown Uptown Professional Dinner Theatre has bounced back convincingly under new ownership and new artistic leadership with the opening show, Irving Berlins White Christmas, and the word professional in the title has never been more appropriate.
Broadway will come to Wichita with a bang next season.
Topeka native Stacy Myers figures that her love of live theater comes from when she was 11 years old and her parents brought her to Wichita’s Century II to see the national touring company of “Les Miserables.”
“Something Slavic,” comedy, 2 p.m. today, Welsbacher Theatre, Hughes Metropolitan Complex, 5015 E. 29th St. North. Tickets $10, $8 seniors, military, $6 students. Rated for mature audience. Call 316-978-3233.
This year, three companies bring the most popular ballet in the U.S. to Wichita.
He’s been in zombie movies. He’s made music videos. He’s even had his art critiqued by Stephen Colbert. Wade Hampton has been a busy man recently; so busy that he hasn’t had a solo exhibit in four years.
If I had known that Id be playing Scrooge, then I wouldnt have written such demanding songs, jokes composer/lyricist Paul Jackson about a new musical version of Dickens beloved A Christmas Carol that premieres this holiday season at Wichitas new Forum Theatre for Performing Arts.
Don’t worry about any radical new approach to “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas,” which reopens the Crown Uptown Theatre with new owners after an abrupt closing last summer.
People open your eyes. That’s what Jack Wilson believes.
Saturday evening’s concert in the Century II Concert Hall by the Wichita Symphony, under the baton of music director Daniel Hege, was an affirmation of the vitality of concert music, so called “classical music,” in Wichita.
Donald Reinhold, the new executive director of the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, understands the marriage of passion, work and art.
A benefit concert Tuesday at Wichita State University will feature Jonathan Okseniuk, a 5-year-old musical prodigy and YouTube sensation from Arizona.
The latest addition to the Wichita Center for the Arts is an eclectic outdoor showcase of contemporary sculptures to be unveiled and dedicated with a series of activities Saturday.
The Wichita Symphony is ready to shake it up. More than 50 drums, cymbals and wood blocks will rumble on the symphony stage next weekend.