Local playwright Tom Frye is shaking up gender expectations in his latest original melodrama for Mosley Street Melodrama by letting female characters be the chief villain and hero tussling over a hapless, helpless man.
For Kevin Kelly, there’s more to art than what is focused on a canvas. It’s the spaces at the brink and just beyond the work that fascinate him. His latest exhibit, “From the Margins,” is a multi-faceted approach to pushing boundaries. It opens Friday at the Fiber Studio on Commerce Street.
The musical version of Louisa May Alcott’s Civil War classic “Little Women” is such wholesome, family-friendly entertainment that I wish it had a little more pizzazz to make it linger in the memory.
The summer movie season is starting earlier and earlier, with “Iron Man 3” already having officially kicked off this year’s blockbuster bonanza in early May.
Today’s guest photographer is Johnna Nicole Crawford, a creative writing student and photographer from Haysville.
The Keeper of the Plains is turning 39, and the statue’s birthday brings with it the opening of a new exhibit that will offer the community a closer look at the artist who created the Wichita landmark.
You could play board games this weekend. Or you could just watch them dance.
From Botanica to Bradley Fair, from the Ulrich Museum of Art to the WaterWalk, venues for outdoor concerts are back for the summer in the Wichita area.
The Wichita Eagle is giving away four pair of tickets — each pair valued at $200 — to Friday’s Symphony Al Fresco.
The waters of Bradley Fair will be transformed into the backdrop of a grandiose outdoor stage Saturday evening as the Wichita Grand Opera presents its final performance of the season.
The Broadway musical version of Louisa May Alcott’s classic Civil War story, “Little Women,” will receive its professional Wichita premiere when the 2005 show opens Friday at Crown Uptown Theatre.
Four students who are graduating from Friends University on Saturday with fine-arts degrees in ballet will have their work showcased Friday in the Riney Fine Arts Center’s Sebits Auditorium on campus, 2100 W. University. The Student Choreography Showcase will feature classical and contemporary dancing after the style of each of the choreographers. It is free to the public and will start at 7:30 p.m. Seating will be general admission. The four student choreographers are Krissy Adams, Ryan Frier, Sophie Meyers and Taylor Osterman. Part of their coursework was choreographing a piece for the showcase. The artistry of moccasins
The Century II Convention Center was aglow with nostalgia Saturday night as the Wichita Symphony Orchestra was joined by guest conductor Michael Krajewski and guest artists A.J. Swearingen and Jonathan Beedle to perform a Simon and Garfunkel retrospective.
A large banner now covers one of the Ulrich Museum of Art’s exterior walls to set the stage for a years-long interactive art experiment of sorts that will keep the arts community — and the community at large — engaged until the return of the university’s iconic “Personnages Oiseaux.”
Chamber Music at the Barn’s 2013 season this summer will feature principal players for the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, musicians from throughout the U.S. and instruments from violas to pianos to oboes. A harpsichord will be on stage for the last concert of the season.
Images popping up across town of a wide-eyed monkey in a bright blue dress mean one thing: the Art and Book Fair is fast approaching.
Following in the tradition of the great opera companies of Europe, the Wichita Grand Opera on Wednesday acknowledged the long-standing connection between opera and ballet: it presented a single, spectacular performance of the ballet “Swan Lake” (with music by Tchaikovsky and choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov) produced by the Russian National Ballet Theatre. Based on the fact that the house was packed, it is sad that there was only one performance, because this was Russian ballet as only the Russians can perform it.
The naked truth about “The Full Monty” is that it’s a structurally uneven show, mostly due to composer-lyricist David Yasbek, who creates a couple of hauntingly lovely, show-stopping ballads plus a couple of clever comedy romps but then relegates too many other tunes to that limbo of serviceable but forgettable.
The Russian National Ballet Theatre returns to Wichita on Wednesday for a staging of Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake.” The classic tale about a beautiful maiden trapped in swan form by a nefarious magician and the prince whose love is determined to save her is fashioned after many popular folktales and legends.
Besides being glorious, giddy tap-dancing fun, George and Ira Gershwin’s 1930s-era “Crazy for You” contains a subtle message about pulling together as a community that Amy Baker Schwiethale thinks is particularly relevant to America’s polarized present.
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