The first ladies of civil rights come to life

  Westport Center for the Arts and the Kansas City Public Library examine the lives of the unofficial “First Ladies” of the civil rights movement in “The Three Ms” on Sunday, June 29. The new play, written by Jacqueline ...

Folk musician to perform in Westport Center for the Arts series

Folk musician Gerald Trimble will perform at 12:10 p.m. Friday, May 16, at Immanuel Lutheran Church, 1700 Westport Road, as part of Westport Center for the Arts’ Brown Bag Concert series. Trimble will be playing a 17th century viola ...

Westport concert features harpsichord in Bach’s 18th century style

The Westport Center for the Arts will commemorate Johann Sebastian Bach’s 329th birthday with a concert by a harpsichord tuned in a way that may have sounded  familiar to the composer. It will employ the historic Werckmeister III temperament, ...