The Wichita Wind Symphony brings innovation and energy to Wichita's classical music scene
The new-music ensemble’s third season of free concerts begins this Saturday.
A vision of Wichita as a ‘Somewhere’: Eclectic music and arts festival returns for second year
After debuting last year as Elsewhere Fest, the two-day festival and conference is back this weekend with a new name, fewer stages, same ambition.
'Staggerwing' soars again, honoring Kansas aviators in flight and feeling
Opera Kansas’ updated production, which recently concluded a three-show run in McPherson and Wichita, showcases the lives and achievements of Wichita’s pioneering aviation heroines.
‘Hobo codes’ public art tracks the past alongside the present
In downtown Wichita, Jeff Best's Hobo Code Railings is tucked beneath an underpass. The art piece celebrates past nomadic life but permanently sits in a place where homelessness is present.
In its 43rd season, Kechi Playhouse tempers passion with pragmatism
As a hedge against troublesome road construction, the theater will present five royalty-free productions this year. They include past favorites, an original script, and "Much Ado About Nothing."
Wichita Shakespeare Company kicks off its season with 'totally rad' production of 'Love's Labours Lost'
In its 26th year, the company presents two wildly different approaches to Shakespeare: An '80s undergraduate take on comedy "Love's Labours Lost" opens June 6, and a "no gimmicks" version of "Romeo and Juliet" is coming in September.
Music Theatre Wichita’s longest-serving employee celebrates 50 years of curtains
Among (many) other contributions, Mary Sue Dymak helped build the production company’s robust theatrical rentals program.
Cultural/curatorial transmissions: “Bold Women” at the Spencer Museum of Art
On the campus of the University of Kansas in Lawrence, art across generations reveals the past as present. "Bold Women" is on view through July 6.
'Just Willa': Like mother, like daughter
A new novel by Wichita native Helen Sheehy explores the lives of early 20th-century Kansas and Oklahoma farmers and ranchers. Technically fiction, “Just Willa” drips with the kinds of details that the best historians mine from deep research.