Archive for the ‘Performances’ Category

Theatre Department to Present Shakespeare

Monday, April 23rd, 2012

UMKC Theatre presents its final production of the season.  Directed by Barry Kyle, “The Winter’s Tale” will preview April 20 and open April 24 in the Spencer Theatre, Olson,PAC. Tickets will be on sale at the Central Ticket Office (816) 235-6222. See:

Student Art Exhibit Opens in May

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

The Department of Art and Art History is hosting the 2011 UMKC Student Art Exhibition in Room 106 of the Fine Arts Building’s Gallery of Art, 5015 Holmes St., Kansas City, Mo. The opening reception was on Thursday, May 5 at the Gallery of Art, and the exhibition will run through July 30. UMKC Gallery hours are 1-5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and 1 to 7 p.m. Thursday.

The exhibition is open to any student enrolled in classes at UMKC and includes painting, photography, sculpture, prints, graphic design, video and motion graphics. Featuring works by 37 artists, this year’s exhibition is juried by Cara Megan Lewis. Lewis is the curator at Cara and Cabezas Contemporary and works independently on curatorial projects in Kansas City and San Francisco. Lewis received her Master’s Degree in June 2007 from the Curatorial Practice Program at the California College of the Arts. Her professional experience includes three years as a registrar at Fraenkel Gallery, registration work on the Diane Arbus Retrospective at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and curatorial assistance for the arts programming at Mamá Art Cafe in San Francisco.

For more see:  http://cas.umkc.edu/art/

UMKC Theatre Presented World Premier of SHOOT HORSES

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

 
A world-premiere adaptation for UMKC by Emmy-award- winning writer Ron Hutchinson of an American classic story was presented April 23-May 1, 2011. The craze of marathon dance competitions sweeps through 1930s Los Angeles, where the unemployed and desperate dance for weeks, and sometimes till death, to win money and fame.

Theatre Department Undergraduate Production Announced

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

The A&S Theatre Department’s Undergraduate Spring Production is set to open February 24. For more details about this period piece written entirely in verse, see:
http://cas.umkc.edu/theatre/Playbill/09-10/LaBete.htm

Also, remember that their World Premier of Slammed is February 12. http://cas.umkc.edu/theatre/Playbill/09-10/Slammed2.htm

World Premiere of Slammed! Set for February 12, 2010

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

The A&S Department of Theatre has announced the upcoming “world premiere” of a new play Slammed! KC Speaks Out on the Recession created and directed by assistant professor Stephanie Roberts.

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