Dan Kelly

1 week ago | kansascity.com | Dan Kelly

Shakespeare wrote "Love's Labour's Lost" more than 425 years ago, but the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival will put a 20th century twist on it from Tuesday, June 17, through Sunday, July 6, in Southmoreland Park. The festival's free outdoor production, an annual Kansas City tradition since 1993, will set the comedy in the 1950s. The plot involves four men who take an oath to avoid women and focus on self-improvement for three years, but things don't go quite as planned.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Dan Kelly

The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival will return to Southmoreland Park with “Love’s Labour’s Lost” opening Tuesday, June 17. Shakespeare wrote “Love’s Labour’s Lost” more than 425 years ago, but the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival will put a 20th century twist on it from Tuesday, June 17, through Sunday, July 6, in Southmoreland Park. The festival’s free outdoor production, an annual Kansas City tradition since 1993, will set the comedy in the 1950s.

2 weeks ago | kansascity.com | Dan Kelly

Gary Neal Johnson, a fixture as Ebenezer Scrooge in the Kansas City Repertory Theatre's popular annual production of "A Christmas Carol" for more than two decades, will take one last curtain call as the iconic Dickens character later this year. Johnson, who has played Scrooge in an estimated 1,100 performances since 2000, has announced that KC Rep's production of "Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol" from Nov. 22 to Dec. 27 at Spencer Theatre will end his remarkable run.

2 weeks ago | kansascity.com | Dan Kelly

Missouri's coffers are so flush with cash that the governor and legislature have committed $1.5 billion to keep the Chiefs and Royals from moving to Kansas. Meanwhile, nearly two dozen state employees have been needlessly fired, their lives upended because of a secretary of state who appears to have no human decency and a childish feud among Jefferson City politicians. I have seen the resulting carnage firsthand.

3 weeks ago | kansascity.com | Dan Kelly

Jeanine Michna-Bales' photo of the Magnolia Plantation on the Cane River in Louisiana is part of her exhibition that will be open to the public Friday at the Culture Lab at Mid-America Arts Alliance. ExhibitsUSA A traveling exhibition exploring the Underground Railroad will highlight this week's First Friday in the Crossroads Arts District.