Kansas City Events Calendar
2:00–8:00pm
Theater | Musical
Come From Away
Spencer Theatre - Kansas City Repertory Theatre
On the 25th Anniversary of the 9-11 attacks, we present this breathtaking tale of triumph that will leave you cheering for the power of community.This exhilarating Tony Award-winning musical tells the remarkable true story of nearly 7,000 airline passengers from…
5:00–8:30pm
Theater
Eureka Day
Delightfully prescient and pointedly funny, Jonathan Spector’s 2025 Tony Award-winning Eureka Day comes to the City Stage in September! In this “…sharp satire of well-meaning but misguided liberalism” (New York Theatre Guide) a mumps outbreak has put the Board of Directors of the Eureka…
7:00–9:00pm
Music
American Landscapes
BARBER:Serenade for String Quartet, Op.1BEACH:Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor, Op. 6DVOŘÁK:String Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 97 “American”Chad Hoopes,violinDanbi Um,violinMasumi Rostad,violaScott Lee,violaHyeyeon Park,pianoDmitri Atapine,celloThe opening program of the Friends of Chamber Music Fifty-First Season celebrates American Landscapes across three unique…
7:30–10:00pm
Opera
Lyric Opera of Kansas City's La bohème TeenTixKC Night
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
It's TeenTix KC Night! Win 2 free tix to La Boheme at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30 pm, Saturday, September 19th. Rent, the rock musical, was based on La Boheme! TeenTix KC members can email [email protected] with…
7:30–8:30pm
Dance
New Dance Partners
Yardley Hall in the Midwest Trust Center
Audiences will delight in a feast for the eyes as four new works premiere on Yardley Hall stage. For this festival of contemporary and modern dance, the Midwest Trust Center has enlisted four choreographers to create original works for four…
7:30–9:30pm
Lyric Opera of Kansas City's La Bohème
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
A portrait of friendship, romance, and grief in nineteenth-century France among a charming group of impoverished bohemians who face life’s challenges with humor, resilience, and poetry.
All Day
Visual Arts
Amy Kligman: The Salon for Possible Futures
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Amy Kligman: The Salon for Possible Futures is a built environment installation that takes on the familiar shape of a living room. It acts at once as a library, a gallery, a cabinet of curiosity, a third space, a common…
All Day
Visual Arts
Betsabeé Romero: A Field with Roots (Un campo con raíces)
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Betsabeé Romero, a Mexican visual artist known for her installations, will have three site-specific works installed in the Nerman Museum lobby, coming together to create A Field with Roots (Un campo con raíces).A Field with Roots is comprised of three…
All Day
Visual Arts
Carlos Rolón: ALL WE HAVE IS RIGHT NOW
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Carlos Rolón’s works operate as memory capsules and as acts of preservation. The works also serve as a meditation on impermanence, survival, and the fragile beauty of the present moment. Rolón explores how histories of migration, colonialism, environmental devastation, and…
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
Visual Arts
Norman Akers Navigates the Space Between
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Norman Akers has been mapping the world. His large canvases are filled with an interlayered web of cartographic iconography drawn from road maps, Osage philosophy, and his own visual vernacular. Through these maps, his images have become records documenting an…
All Day
Visual Arts
Sport and Spectator
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Sport and Spectator celebrates the dynamic intersection of the visual arts and sports culture, presenting an array of works that transform sports imagery and equipment such as basketballs, helmets, and jerseys into artworks. The exhibition invites viewers to consider how…
