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Grace Kelly — the 19-year-old saxophonist who is taking the jazz world by storm — performed Saturday night with her quintet and special guest Phil Woods for the Folly Jazz Spotlight Concert. more at kansascity.com

'My Romance: The Songs of Rodgers and Hart' thrills and divertsRating: 4 My Romance: The Songs of Rodgers and HartQuality Hill Playhouse ''My Romance: The Songs of Rodgers and Hart'' is a musical revue beautifully rendered, in the satisfying and old-fashioned portrayal that the Quality Hill Playhouse excels at. J Kent Bernhart's memorable ...

Genaux, born in Alaska and living in Italy, joined tremendous vocal technique and a three-octave mezzo-soprano voice to the refined Baroque aesthetic of violinist Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante, an original instrument Baroque string group Biondi founded in 1990. more at kansascity.com

You may have needed a shoehorn to fit another instrumentalist on the stage of Helzberg Hall Friday night. Performing ensembles are thinking big in this inaugural season of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, and the Kansas City Symphony rose to the challenge by providing a compelling reading of Gustav Mahler’s massive Symphony No. 2 ...

Maybe some books are harder to adapt for the stage than others, or maybe some make better movies than stage plays. I’ve seen one or two movies of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer that seemed to work all right, except, as I recall, they leaned toward the maudlin. more at Infozine

“The Wrestling Season” is more than just entertaining and thought-provoking. It is more than just well-acted and technically sharp. It is something that excites and enthralls the audience every moment an actor is on stage. more at the University News

“Pump Boys and Dinettes” was a unique show when it opened on Broadway just over 30 years ago and it still is – an amiable, slap-happy revue that pokes fun at our rural roots and country cousins without ever seeming mean-spirited. more at kansascity.com

Millie Edwards has been rewarded with standing ovations many of the times I've seen her perform in churches and in concert settings. She's a true audience-pleaser. People hearing her for the first time are invariably astounded that such a gigantic voice can emanate from such a diminutive person. more at Plastic Sax

Have Beer for Breakfast at the Heartland Rating: 4 Beer for BreakfastAmerican Heartland Theatre ''Beer For Breakfast'', a world premier play by Sean Grennan is a charming comedy seemingly tailor-made for The American Heartland Theater at Crown Center in Kansas City. A small but well appointed cabin in the woods is the setting where four high ...

Mixed marriages are nothing new and can reveal a different set of human foibles. Opposites attract, after all, whether the divisions between them are religious or political or class. Prior to seeing the Unicorn Theatre's Next Fall (directed by Jeff Church), which was a Tony Award nominee in 2010, I wondered what would make this play's central ...

Remember endless summers and their limitless possibilities, of viewing the world through the lens of a child? And don't we all still grasp sometimes for that carefree feeling? A couple of hours at an action film, a happy hour, a musical performance — a play — can soften life's concerns, for a while. Such is the world of Tom Sawyer and ...

The Chiara String Quartet has a reputation for taking contemporary classical repertoire beyond conventional venues while maintaining the traditions of the genre. more at kansascity.com

Geoffrey Nauffts’ play “Next Fall,” a hit both on and off Broadway in 2009-10, addresses issues of love, faith, death and loss — and, remarkably, does so with a sense of humor that cuts to the bone. more at kansascity.com

When we are young, every single day appears to be bursting at the seams with potential for adventure. “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” at The Kansas City Repertory Theatre ignites that desire to get a little messy and have a lot of fun. more at the Vignette

As the orchestra began the main title theme from “Star Wars,” it was obvious that this concert, the first of two weekend concerts, was unlike any yet in Helzberg Hall. The stage on Friday night was filled to near capacity with members of the Kansas City Symphony, including expanded brass and percussion sections, and singers from the ...

The Coterie Theatre and the UMKC Theatre Department have joined forces to produce a remarkably well-acted revival of ''The Wrestling Season,'' a taut one-act play by Laurie Brooks about intense social pressures and sexual identity among a group of teens. more at kansascity.com

It takes real guts and musicianship to pull off pieces like the ones we heard last night at Kansas City’s Kauffman Center! more at Chamber Music Today

Kudos to J. Kent Barnhart and Quality Hill Playhouse for creating a show that transported a seen-it-all theater critic to a different time and place. more at kansascity.com

Violinist Guy Braunstein joined the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jeffrey Tate in their Kansas City debuts Wednesday night at Helzberg Hall in the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. The concert was part of this season’s Harriman-Jewell Series. more at kansascity.com

The Kansas City Repertory Theatre, in collaboration with three other regional theaters, gives us an inventive, high-spirited and somewhat endearing stage version of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.” more at kansascity.com