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Two exhibitions open tonight at Wichita Center for the Arts that offer different interpretations of the painting medium.
The Wichita Symphony delivered a wonderful array of musical selections Sunday easily likened to the courses of a gourmet meal. The orchestra was led in this concert by guest conductor Daniel Hege, who will become its new director next season.
Welsh-born actor Roger Rees, a 22-year veteran of England's famed Royal Shakespeare Company, is determined to prove that The Bard was "just a guy like you and me."
There is everyday run-of-the-mill glass that we all have in our shelves.
It's hard to think of Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado" as real opera because it's just so much fun. But the music is challenging for any singer, from soaring arias to the added difficulty of the occasional fast-paced, tongue- twisting patter song.
Christopher Taylor, the piano soloist next weekend with the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, doesn't have direct connections to Wichita — he never lived here; he didn't study here.
Among the things a first-time visitor to St. Anthony's Catholic Church notices are the intricately designed stained glass windows.
It takes just 25 minutes for Marcie Dodd to transform from a fresh-faced California native into Elphaba, the bright green Wicked Witch of the West.
Art enthusiasts will have a chance tonight to see all nine of the large-scale paintings done by noted Kansas artist Stan Herd as part of a state project to promote culture and tourism.
"Wicked" swept into Century II with all the force of a spangled and bejeweled tornado Wednesday, taking the audience on a musical ride through familiar territory to Kansans —"The Wizard of Oz" — but in a surprising, provocative way.
Before witches sing and monkeys fly, before Munchkins dance and wizards bellow, before the curtain rises tonight and Kansas gets its first look at the gravity-defying musical "Wicked," there's work to do.
Wichita would normally be considered too small of a market to host the full-blown tour of a major Broadway show like "Wicked."
Welcome to "Witchita" — for the next three weeks, anyway. The witches of Oz are invading Dorothy Gale's home territory as the blockbuster musical "Wicked" lands for the only Kansas stop on its national tour.
Wichita playwright and actor J.R. Hurst describes his new drama, "Echoes of Anguished Minds," as sort of "A Chorus Line" about mental illness.
As far as the group of Lawrence Elementary School kindergartners and first-graders were concerned, they were just clapping, counting, dancing and getting to know Mother Goose at an afternoon gathering last week.
Ryu Goto carries an impeccable musical pedigree. His mother and father are violinists; his mother was his first teacher. His older sister is Midori, the famous violin virtuoso.
"Heroes & Villains" will abound in the Cotillion Saturday night for ArtAID 16.
The new season for Wichita Grand Opera opens Saturday with "My Ukraine!," an evening of colorful Cossack-style folk dance and music by the Ukrainian National Dance Company.
Saturday evening's performance in Century II Concert Hall, opening this season's classical concert series by the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, contained all the ingredients of a blockbuster concert: A rousing overture, a picturesque symphony, and a powerful concerto performed by a seasoned orchestra and a soloist with world class credentials.
Friends University Ballet will showcase the work that goes on behind the scenes during the school's Fall Ballet program next weekend.
