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UMKC launches plans for $35 Million Expansion of Conservatory of Music and Dance

Lucas Campbell, Lifestyle and Culture Editor
June 10, 2025

  UMKC has announced plans to expand its Conservatory of Music and Dance with a $35 million addition to the Olson Performing Arts Center.   The expansion of the Conservatory will add about 35,000 square feet of new space for Conservatory students. The new spaces aim to...

A Peter Pan Playbill

Students gather to share the magic of “Peter Pan” at UMKC night at the Starlight

Maisy Blanton, Social Media Editor
October 4, 2024

This national tour of “Peter Pan” has a modern twist, as it is set in the present day and removes the song “Ugg-a-Wugg,” which appeared in the original production.    The song, containing mocking gibberish and Indigenous stereotypes, has received backlash from the...

Review: “Four Children” is an emotional and moving experience

Review: “Four Children” is an emotional and moving experience

Brandon Clark
October 18, 2021

The Kansas City Actors Theater is now showing “Four Children” at the City Stage at Union Station.  The 65-minute, emotional play is inspired by the journal entries of four young children, each going through hardships and trying to survive genocides in their homelands.  Their...

Nine zoom screens with the five middle ones turned on to a body part with a head in the middle center, arm in the middle left and right screens, chest in the center frame, and a stomach in the bottom middle frame.

UMKC Theatre presents “Antigonick,” a retelling of an ancient classic

Joeli Toscano
March 1, 2021

Five different bodies converge on one screen sharing a head, two separate arms, a torso and a chest to form a digital Zoom beast. This is all par for the course for the play “Antigonick.” Using ingenious digital techniques from director Vanessa Severo and scenic designer...

Shoulders of a person with a white t-shit on. An explosion of blue dust in place where their head should be. All yellow background and over the blue dust are the words "Brainstorm: The Inside Life of a Teenage Mind" in bold white lettering.

UMKC Theatre and The Coterie Theatre present “Brainstorm: The Inside Life of the Teenage Mind”

Joeli Toscano
February 9, 2021

UMKC Theatre and The Coterie Theatre released a virtual theatrical collaboration online on Jan. 21 titled “Brainstorm: The Inside Life of the Teenage Mind.” The virtual production, written by Ned Glasier, Emily Lim and Company Three, is about the science behind the functioning...

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