Kansas City Events Calendar
2:00–8:30pm
Theater
Intimate Apparel
“A justly acclaimed, beautifully written, and intensely personal play…” (Chicago Tribune) from two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage comes the soon-to-be classic, Intimate Apparel. Set in 1905 New York, Esther works as a seamstress sewing exquisite lingerie for an array of clients, but…
2:00–8:30pm
THE RITZ
When Gaetano Proclo, a hapless, middle-aged, very married man takes it on the lam from his mafioso brother-in-law, Carmine Vespucci, he ducks into “The Ritz” – a gay bathhouse. What he encounters there sets the scene for an old-fashioned, doorslamming…
All Day
Visual Arts
Edra Soto: the place of dwelling
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Edra Soto (b. 1971, Puerto Rico) alters and recontextualizes common functional objects—wrought-iron screens, plastic lawn furniture, and electric fans, ubiquitous in her native Puerto Rico—to create objects and environments that celebrate the voices of working-class communities. Soto’s installation, the place…
All Day
Exhibit
Timeless Mucha
Nelson-Atkins Museum Museum of Art
The special exhibition Timeless Mucha celebrates the visionary graphic work of Czech artist Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939), whose elegant figures and whiplash lines came to define the Art Nouveau movement and transformed visual culture around the world.Featuring more than 100 works…
