- HOME
- NEWS
- SPORTS
- BUSINESS
- FYI/LIVING
- ENTERTAINMENT
- OPINION
- JOBS
- CARS
- REAL ESTATE
- RENTALS
- CLASSIFIEDS
- SHOPPING
- EXTRAS
Bruce Springsteen appeared in concert with his band Sunday night at Kemper Arena in 2000. Photo by Beverly Bynum/The Kansas City Star bruce0714a
The Boss is coming back for another appearance at the Sprint Center. Tickets for the "Workin' On a Dream" Go on sale Aug. 8. Check out Springsteen's previous performances in Kansas City.
Bruce Springsteen will appear Oct. 26 at the Sprint Center.
Starlight Theatre has mounted a lively production of the classic Depression-era musical “Anything Goes.”
A few "American Idol" contestants who have suffered a verbal flogging from Simon Cowell have responded to their woundings with a similar retort: What do you know about singing? You created Il Divo.
Summerfest, the region’s fine chamber music series, opened its 19th season Saturday night at White Hall on the UMKC campus. Frankly, it was their best opener in recent memory.
What do rollerskating babies and Evian water have in common? Nothing really. But the viral video has become an Internet phenomenon.
Eve 6 broke into the modern-rock scene in the late 1990s, and by all measures they were a successful band. One of their three full-length albums went platinum; another went gold.
Next month, the first Woodstock music festival turns 40 years old. Thursday night at the VooDoo Lounge, the Black Crowes spent more than two hours reviving the spirit of that mythical event and the sounds (and aromas) of that era.
On its first tour in seven years, No Doubt might be packing large venues like Starlight Theater on Monday night, but they’re playing them like a hungry band, working the crowd for a place to crash afterward. The few times the band paused during its 95-minute set, singer Gwen Stefani read the homemade signs held up in the crowd and calling fans toting gifts up to the stage.
At this late date it’s tough to watch “The Sound of Music” with an objective eye, but it’s wise for us to remember that there was a time when it seemed new, fresh and delightful to Broadway audiences. It remains a show with heart.
The Starlight bats were distracting, but they also added a level of interest to a performance that never really caught fire, despite a talented cast’s best efforts.
The oversized black hat worn by Conor Oberst Sunday at the Beaumont Club made it extremely difficult to take him seriously. The odd sartorial selection was typical of the frustratingly inscrutable artist. True believers hail Oberst, 29, as the voice of his generation. Cynics deride him as an insufferable dilettante who dabbles in various styles for ironic value. Oberst's often satisfying but inconsistent performance offered evidence to support both perspectives. Oberst is currently working as the leader of the Mystic Valley Band. The group is squarely in the literate American roots music tradition forged by Bob Dylan and since explored...
Well, it was just another trippy Saturday night in the Crossroads. Actress/producer Corrie Van Ausdal inaugurated her new performance studio, the Fishtank, with her more-or-less solo enactment of a 30-minute 1942 radio play, “Sorry, Wrong Number.”
The oversized black hat worn by Conor Oberst on Sunday at the Beaumont Club made it extremely difficult to take him seriously. The odd sartorial selection was typical of the frustratingly inscrutable artist. True believers hail Oberst, 29, as the voice of his generation. Cynics deride him as an insufferable dilettante who dabbles in various styles for ironic value. Oberst’s often satisfying but inconsistent performance offered evidence to support both perspectives.
LAWRENCE | Kansas will get a new poet laureate this week. The current holder of that position, Denise Low, ends her two-year term Wednesday. She will be replaced by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg.
Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire took the stage Sunday night at the Sprint Center armed with enough musicians for a intramural football team and sufficient horns to start a Glenn Miller Orchestra franchise.
Stevie Wonder walked on stage at Starlight Theatre on Friday night with zero fanfare and cut to the heart of the night before playing a single note. “God blessed us with a talented man who brought us joy with his dancing, music, videos and all of that,” Wonder said as part of his five-minute monologue about his friend and former Motown labelmate Michael Jackson.
An artistic gamble reaped enormous dividends Friday at the Beaumont Club. Hip hop legend Nas and reggae star Damian Marley performed together on the first date of a tour to promote a forthcoming album.
An engaging story is at the heart of any good opera. Gaetano Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale,” presented Friday night at Goppert Theater of Avila University by the Civic Opera Theater of Kansas City, featured broadly drawn comic characters and a farcical plot filled with twists and turns.
Ronald Reagan called it “ America’s Choir,” and it’s as much an American tradition as mom and apple pie. On Thursday night the Mormon Tabernacle Choir made its sixth visit to Kansas City, and the first since 1992.
Garden Valley Nursing & Rehab
Superior Door Service, Inc.
