As a little girl standing in her Great Grand’Mère’s garden, Kansas City artist Sonié Joi Thompson-Ruffin saw what others could not.

Two new exhibitions at The Museum of Kansas City explore the city’s local and international connections through stories of community, creativity, collecting and preservation.

The National WWI Museum and Memorial commissioned four world-renowned light artists to transform the iconic Memorial “into a canvas of light, sound and motion,” starting Sept. 25– 27.

“We are all Robin Hood” is actor and playwright Elaine Elizabeth’s theme for summer 2026. It’s a reference to her play Robin Hood, with co-writer Shelly Verden, which premiered at The Arts Asylum in ...

The Lyric Opera of Kansas City aptly launches its fifteenth and last season under the brilliant leadership of General Director Deborah Sandler Kemper, with the world’s most popular opera, “La ...

KCFFI is celebrating its 30th anniversary this weekend, which will include special events — a 30-year anniversary viewing of Robert Altman’s Kansas City and a film panel conversation between actor ...

We can’t escape reality as much as we would like to some days. But on celluloid, for roughly 90 to 180 minutes, we can instead embrace reality and recognize our commonalities with others across the ...

In 2023, Kansas City joined UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network as a Creative City of Music, placing it among an international community of cities where music is recognized as central to cultural ...

The Balderas family salvages items from their flood-damaged home in Armourdale, KS. (Kansas City Public Library) The Kansas City Public Library’s Irene H. Ruiz Biblioteca de las Americas is ...

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art doubled in size this summer when it opened an expansion, by Safdie Architects, that continues the spirit of the museum’s transformation of its woodland setting. ...

Something seems unsettled here. Or perhaps it’s more accurate to say that something is unsettling me. I can’t yet decide if what seems unsettled about the latest exhibition at Charlotte Street — ...

Isaiah Bailey as The Phantom in Phantom of the Opera North American Tour, coming to the Music Hall Dec. 2-13 as part of the American Theatre Guild Kansas City’s annual PNC Broadway in Kansas City ...