Kansas City Events Calendar
11:00am
Saturday Project: Global One Urban Farming
Global One Urban Farming produces and distributes free organic vegetables at their 2-acre garden site to seniors, veterans, youth and low-income families with the goal of raising health levels throughout Kansas City USDA-defined food insecurity communities. Youth will learn more…
2:00pm
Theater
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Ten spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a hilarious Broadway musical, featuring a local professional cast and live on-stage orchestra.
2:00pm
Theater
A Wrinkle In Time
Joining forces with her baby brother Charles Wallace, friend and neighbor Calvin O’Keefe, and the celestial beings Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which, she must battle the forces of evil in order to rescue her father, save humanity, and…
5:00pm
Theater
Deathtrap
One of the longest running Broadway thrillers of all time comes to Kansas City audiences in August with Ira Levin’s seminal comedy-thriller, Deathtrap. A play that is “two-thirds a thriller and one-third a devilishly clever comedy” (Cue Magazine), will see a washed-up writer…
7:00pm
Theater
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Ten spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a hilarious Broadway musical, featuring a local professional cast and live on-stage orchestra.
7:30pm
Theater
Designing Women
Designing Women hilariously revives the beloved TV series, bringing its sharp Southern charm to the present. As their Atlanta design firm faces trouble, Julia, Suzanne, Mary Jo, and Charlene must decide whether to fight or part ways in this quick-witted…
7:30pm
Opera
Cinderella
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
A magical opera with jaw-dropping singing, considered a crown jewel of bel canto opera, Rossini's glittery version of the fairytale classic lets our heroine drive her own fate—no fairy godmother needed. It's not just beauty that wins the prince's heart (though…
All Day
Visual Arts
Andrea Carlson: Shimmer on Horizons
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Andrea Carlson (Grand Portage Ojibwe/European descent, b. 1979; based in northern Minnesota and Chicago, IL) considers how landscapes are shaped by history, relationships, and power. Her artworks imagine places that are “everywhere and nowhere,” visualizing these shifting yet ever-present dynamics…
