Arts NewsEvery Friday morning, Randy Stewart talks with artists, performers, directors and administrators from the area visual and performing arts scene, and presents a comprehensive calendar of arts events.
Every Friday morning, Randy Stewart talks with artists, performers, directors and administrators from the area visual and performing arts scene, and presents a comprehensive calendar of arts events.
Josh Inmon, who just started his new job as Assistant Director of the Juanita K. Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts last month, visited KSMU's "Arts News" this morning to talk about the revival of HHPA's "Broadway Series", which got sidelined for about a year and a half by COVID. "It's been 18 months since we have had a Broadway show on our stage, so we are excited. Seems like an understatement to say that we're just so glad to be back," Inmon said. "(It's the) 30th year at Juanita K. Hammons
Springfield Little Theatre Season Opens With Musical "Kinky Boots"
Springfield Little Theatre will open their 2021-22 mainstage season at the Landers Theatre with the sassy, dazzling, compassionate musical "Kinky Boots", running September 10-26. LT's Chuck Rogers directs the production, and joined us live in the studio on KSMU "Arts News." "I feel like we should have opened a month ago, with all the time we've been putting into it!," Rogers said. "We were originally going to do the show in June of 2019? Or 2020 maybe. It seems like five years ago! And then due
Springfield Little Theatre Season Opens With Musical "Kinky Boots"
Shakespeare As Wild-West Musical Comedy: SCT's "Desperate Measures"
Director Jeffrey MIndock and actor/singer Jeff Carney from Springfield Contemporary Theatre joined us on KSMU's "Arts News" to talk about SCT's newest show, "Desperate Measures", described as a Wild West musical comedy based on Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure." It opens next weekend and will run August 13-15 and 19-22 on the Backlot at SCT's Operations Center, located at 2025 E. Chestnut Expressway at Pythian in east Springfield. The show's director Jeffrey Mindock provided a description of
Shakespeare As Wild-West Musical Comedy: SCT's "Desperate Measures"
Conservatory Of The Ozarks Students Present Their Postponed "Patriotic Recital"
The Conservatory of the Ozarks in Springfield employs professional instructors to provide students of all ages, children and adults, with music, art, and drama lessons. Conservatory students were to present a recital of patriotic music in time for the Independence Day holiday. It was originally scheduled to take place in Drury University's Clara Thompson Hall. However, that facility suffered damage due to vandalism in early May, so COTO postponed its recital until Sunday August 1 st . The
Conservatory Of The Ozarks Students Present Their Postponed "Patriotic Recital"
New Local Theater Company Debuts With The Broadway Musical Version of "Little Women"
A new theater company is about to debut in Springfield, and on KSMU's "Arts News" we talked with one of the company's founders, and one of the lead actors in the company's upcoming inaugural production. Paige Rogers and her husband Joe Rogers recently returned to the Springfield area after spending about six years working in the theater industry in Portland, Oregon: Paige as a director, Joe as a much-in-demand professional stage manager, and both acting and producing for various Portland theater
New Local Theater Company Debuts With The Broadway Musical Version of "Little Women"
Springfield Contemporary Theatre Presents "SCT Sings Broadway Rock 2"
One of the few live performances to take place in Springfield at the height of the COVID shutdown last fall was Springfield Contemporary Theatre's one-night concert "SCT Sings Broadway Rock," performed at Mother's Brewing Company, 215 S. Grant in downtown Springfield. SCT returns to Mother's for "SCT Sings Broadway Rock 2" Sunday evening June 11 at 6:30pm. SCT's Managing Artistic Director Rick Dines and performer Maggie Marlin-Hess joined us on KSMU's "Arts News" to discuss the revival. First
Springfield Contemporary Theatre Presents "SCT Sings Broadway Rock 2"
MSU Tent Theatre Resumes This Summer--Without A Tent
After cancelling their entire live-performance season last summer due to COVID-19, Missouri State University Tent Theatre returns to action for their 59 th season starting June 16—albeit indoors in Craig Hall Theatre, as the patio behind Craig Hall, where the tent has been erected all those years, is undergoing construction for the new John Goodman Amphitheater. Mark Templeton, Managing Director of Tent, visited KSMU's "Arts News" to talk about the current season. "We are thrilled to be back,"
MSU Tent Theatre Resumes This Summer--Without A Tent
"Matilda The Musical" Closes Springfield Little Theatre Season
For the first time in—well, neither of us is sure how long it's been, but almost certainly before the pandemic shutdown!—Lorianne Dunn, Education Director at Springfield Little Theatre, came to the KSMU studio to talk about the mainstage show closing SLT's 2020-21 season, "Matilda The Musical", opening tonight at the Landers Theatre, 311 E. Walnut, and running for the next three weekends. "The cast of Matilda is so overjoyed to be back on the Landers stage," she said. "It is terrific. The cast
"Matilda The Musical" Closes Springfield Little Theatre Season
Springfield Regional Opera Presents Missouri Premiere of "The Real Ambassadors"
Springfield Regional Opera will provide a rare opportunity next Friday, June 4 th , at the Gillioz Theatre, with their one-night-only Missouri premiere performance of "The Real Ambassadors," the jazz musical written early in the civil-rights era by jazz legend Dave Brubeck and his wife Iola, with the collaboration of another iconic jazz figure, Louis Armstrong. Playing the Armstrong-inspired character "Pops" in SRO's performance will be bass-baritone Dr. Todd Payne of the Missouri State
Springfield Regional Opera Presents Missouri Premiere of "The Real Ambassadors"
Springfield Little Theatre Revives Wacky Musical Comedy 'Nunsense'
Chyrel Miller joined us on "Arts News" to talk about Springfield Little Theatre's new production of an old favorite, the comedy-musical-cabaret show "Nunsense," which she has directed. Performances are scheduled May 6-23 live and in-person at the Landers Theatre, 311 E. Walnut, and available each night as an online stream. The show features book, music, and lyrics by Dan Goggin. This is actually the fourth "Nunsense" at LT, Miller said. "We've done it twice before as 'Nunsense,' and then the
Springfield Little Theatre Revives Wacky Musical Comedy 'Nunsense'
