"Raise the Roof" Event Will Raise Funds for The Gathering Tree's Eden Village...
Nate Schlueter, Chief Operating Officer for Eden Village, a project of The Gathering Tree, visited KSMU Friday to promote a fundraising concert and silent auction for the new project. It’s called...
View ArticleSDCO's Christopher Koch on the Mahler 9th
The Springfield-Drury Civic Orchestra, which includes members of the local university music-school faculties, players from the Springfield Symphony and other area orchestras, college music students and...
View ArticleGraphic Novel Memoir Turned Stage Musical: "Fun Home" at SCT Center Stage
Springfield Contemporary Theatre's 2018-19 season continues at SCT Center Stage in Wilhoit Plaza, 302 E. Pershing (corner of Pershing and Robberson) with "Fun Home," the Tony-winning musical based on...
View ArticleJudy Collins and Stephen Stills Bring Their National Tour to Springfield
Judy Collins and Stephen Stills had a famous—and, as both readily acknowledge, tumultuous—romance in the late 1960s. It didn’t last, though it did inspire one of the best known songs of the era,...
View ArticleOpa! The 11th Annual Greek Festival is This Weekend
A chariot ride for the kids is the newest attraction at the 11 th annual Greek Festival at St. Thomas the Apostle Orthodox Church, 4200 South Holiday Avenue in southwest Springfield this weekend. The...
View ArticleSpringfield Regional Opera Opens Season with Double Bill: Barber and Bernstein
Springfield Regional Opera opens their new season celebrating the Leonard Bernstein centennial with a performance of "Trouble in Tahiti" tonight (Sept.28) at 7:30pm in Clara Thompson Hall at Drury...
View Article21st Manhattan Short Film Festival Again Hosted Locally at MSU
Springfield film-lovers have a chance to unite with audiences around the world to choose their favorite short film at the 21st Annual Manhattan Short Film Festival, Saturday Sept.29 from 7:00 to 9:30pm...
View ArticleFriends of the Garden Presents Free "Sounds of Autumn" Concerts in October
Central Bank and Central Trust presents “Sounds of Autumn,” a FREE concert series at 2:00 p.m. on Sundays in October at the Peace through People Pavilion located within the Dogwood Garden in the...
View ArticleDrury University Theatre's "Marvelously Bizarre" Season Opener
Drury University Theatre's first production of the season, the surreal, absurdist "Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness" by Anthony Neilson, will open Wednesday Oct. 10 at 7:30pm in Sunderland...
View ArticleThe First Installment of a New "Arts News" Monthly Feature: Spotlight on Joplin
We’re starting a new monthly feature on KSMU’s Arts News: the last Friday of each month I’ll have a conversation with Emily Frankoski, Community Arts Director for Connect2Culture, which is Joplin’s...
View ArticleCelebrating the Life of David Belcher at MSU's Ellis Hall
Saturday, March 30 at 7:30pm in Ellis Recital Hall, the Missouri State University Music Department will present a concert to commemorate the life and accomplishments of former faculty member and dean...
View ArticleA Meeting of Minds: "Freud's Last Session" at Springfield Contemporary Theatre
“So I think anybody who sees it will be quite pleased and quite impressed with what these actors have created in these roles.” That’s George Cron, director of Springfield Contemporary Theatre’s new...
View ArticleDrury University Theatre Offers a Double Bill of "Medieval Farces"
The students of Drury University Professor of Theatre Dr. Mick Sokol are preparing two Medieval farces for the fourth production of the 2018-19 season: “Pierre Pathelin” and “The Cave of Salamanca.”...
View ArticleMSU Opera Presents a Double Bill in C Minor Recital Hall
Missouri State University Opera presents a double bill next weekend: two operas—two women with a choice. Dr. Ann Marie Daehn, Assistant Professor of Voice and Director of MSU’s opera program, stopped...
View ArticleSpringfield Art Museum Presents Multimedia Work By Nick Cave
Nick Cave is one of today's preeminent multi-disciplinary artists, working in a wide range of media including sculpture, installation, video, sound and performance. The Springfield Art Museum opens an...
View ArticleBrewer & Shipley Are "Still Smokin'" After 52 Years
They were one of the most successful folk-rock duos of the 1970s. Michael Brewer and Tom Shipley—Brewer & Shipley—are still making music together more than 50 years after they first teamed up....
View ArticleSculpture Walk Springfield Teams With Tie & Timber Beer Co. For "SculptureFest"
Sculpture Walk Springfield started four years ago, according to the project's Executive Director Nicole Brown. It’s a public-art initiative whose goal is "to enhance the quality of life and to promote...
View ArticleKSMU's May 2019 "Spotlight On Joplin"
For the second installment of our new monthly “Arts News” feature spotlighting arts events in Joplin, I was again joined on the phone by Emily Frankoski, Community Arts Director for Joplin’s arts...
View ArticleLots To Do And See (And Buy!) At The 39th Annual "ArtsFest On Walnut Street"
Artsfest on Historic Walnut Street is 39 years old this year, believe it or not, and it’s scheduled for Saturday and Sunday May 4 th and 5 th from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday,...
View ArticleMSU Theatre And Dance Presents Play By Missouri Native Lanford Wilson
Okay, so I can’t pronounce her name correctly, live on the air, to save me. In fact, I freely admit I’ve NEVER gotten it right. (For the record, it’s “TELL-er-ee EHR-en-dell.”) But Dr. Telory Arendell,...
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