Gitana Productions Explores The Challenges Of Mixed Identity
Gitana Productions’ Executive Director Cecilia Nadal is the product of a Puerto Rican father and an African American mother. She spent her early years in the Latino culture Puerto Rico and Panama...
View ArticleReview: If You Like Your Comedy Black, Hot City's "Entertaining Mr. Sloane"...
If you like your comedy dark and twisted, irreverent and absolutely “for adults only,” you’ve probably been a fan of HotCity Theatre for ages; and their latest offering, Entertaining Mr. Sloane by Joe...
View ArticleMarty Ehrlich comes full circle - with New Music Circle
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: When Marty Ehrlich was attending University City High School in the early 1970s, he played saxophone after moving to that instrument from clarinet...
View ArticleVoodoo, Christianity And Twitter Fuse In New Art Show
Voodoo and Twitter, Christianity and Facebook. The new visual art exhibit ALTrs draws inspiration from them all. Damon Davis, participating artist, musician and curator, said he hopes to highlight the...
View ArticleFerguson Photo Show Challenges Expectations For Protest Imagery
This Friday the Kranzberg Arts Center opens a photo show challenging popular media representations of events in Ferguson. The photographers focused the lives of Ferguson residents, details,...
View ArticleMusic Collective FarFetched Crashes Genres, Pushes Boundaries
Local music collective FarFetched is a loose association of musicians from various genres and age groups. The group celebrates its fourth anniversary with a compilation album, "Prologue IV," and a...
View ArticleMulti-gallery show explores connections between fine art and rock and roll...
This weekend a new art show held in tribute to St. Louis and rock and roll opens in multiple Grand Center venues. Although the show is held in fine art spaces, organizer Jason Gray hopes it will...
View ArticleWorld premiere of Ken Page’s ‘Sublime Intimacy’ aims to have you asking...
Renowned singer, actor, playwright and St. Louisan Ken Page describes it like this: “There’s a point in the play where one of the characters says ‘It’s like that captain of the football team that you...
View ArticleKranzberg Arts Foundation to open new performing arts venue
The Kranzberg Arts Foundation is developing the new multi-media arts space called .ZACK (pronounced Zack). Kranzberg Arts Foundation’s Director of Operations Chris Hansen said the project will help...
View ArticleKranzberg gallery to focus on social justice art in coming year
For its next season, the gallery at the Kranzberg Arts Center will focus on presenting variations on social justice art. But the new direction of the Kranzberg’s Grand Center gallery won’t necessarily...
View ArticleKranzberg exhibit examines cultural appropriation through painting and poetry
“Play All Trap Music/That's What We Want/Let it wash ya brain/All We Do Is Stunt.” In the first stanza of a new poem, multimedia artist Darian Wigfall examines how corporations run by the wealthy...
View ArticleCollaborative performing arts space unites 9 performance groups this fall
Nine young arts groups will find a home at the new performing arts incubator .ZACK this fall. Created by the Kranzberg Arts Foundation, the space aims to foster collaborations among the St. Louis...
View ArticleGrandel Theater in Grand Center gets new life
After closing several years ago, the Grandel Theater in Grand Center will get a new shot as a rehabbed performance venue and exhibit space. The Kranzberg Arts Foundation has begun renovating the...
View ArticleIconic 'Prime Beauty' sign from Ferguson to be displayed as art at Grand...
In 2014 Ferguson resident Bryce Robinson had the surreal experience of watching from a distance as his hometown became the center of national media coverage. When then-police officer Darren Wilson...
View Article'Fierce, sassy and bold': Max and Louie Productions presents jazz legend...
The story of a jazz a singer whose signature song drew attention to the brutal treatment of African-Americans will be on stage in St. Louis for the next two weeks. Max and Louie Productions presents...
View ArticleLight the lights for Big Brothers and Grand Center
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: June 25, 2008 - "Ma'am, are they taking applications in there?" the gentleman called from his white pickup Monday afternoon at the corner of Olive...
View ArticleWill the Kranzberg Center draw Grand Center together?
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: August 28, 2008 - As Grand Center has picked up steam, unveiling ever more outlets for the arts - particularly since the new millennium, thanks to...
View ArticleSt Lou Fringe opens with zombies, a Russian twist and new strategy
The 2017 St Lou Fringe festival of performing arts opens Thursday with a new menu of choices. For example, paying for one show will get you a free “Meatball” on the side. “Meatball Séance,” to be...
View ArticleSt. Louisan John McDaniel, Londoner Barb Jungr collaborate to perform the...
St. Louis native John McDaniel is a Grammy and Emmy award-winning musician. For years he performed as the band leader of The Rosie O’Donnell Show. Londoner Barb Jungr is known for her pop music,...
View Article'Am I accepted now?' — St. Louis couple's art tackles colorism
Married couple Danielle and Kevin McCoy are used to being treated differently based on the color of their skin — not only because they are each African-American, but because her skin tone is lighter...
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