July 29, 2010 Events

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Thursday, July 29, 2010
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Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art's 25th Anniversary Summer Invitational -
Repeats daily until 08/14/10

x Open to the Public Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday 11:00 - 5:00 p.m. 2004 Baltimore Avenue Kansas City, MO 64108
edit this post 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
River Market Regional Exhibition -
Repeats weekly until 08/07/10

View 31 new works of art by 53 artists in the highly competitive annual juried show. Artists from Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Arkansas or Oklahoma were elibible. This year's juror was Barbara O'Brien, curator at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanass City. $2,000 in cash awards. Opening Reception: Friday, July 9, 5-8pm. Ms. O'Brien will say some words about the jurying process.
edit this post 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Kansas City Actors Theatre presents Sam Shepard's TRUE WEST -
Repeats daily until 07/31/10

Over twenty years ago, KCAT favorites Jim Birdsall and Mark Robbins brought Lee and Austin to life on the Missouri Repertory Theatre stage. Now see them again as they reprise their roles in this classic Sam Shepard play about a screen writer and his renegade brother,their testosterone-driven rivalries and what happens when the success of one brother means the failure of the other. ?True West has arguably become Shepard?s signature piece, the leanest, most pointed of his full length works.? ~ David Krasner, A Companion to 20th-Century American Drama
edit this post 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee -
Repeats weekly until 08/22/10

This adorable tale of six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, will have audiences in stitches. The show's Tony Award-winning creative team has created the unlikeliest of hit musicals about the unlikeliest of heroes for whom a spelling bee is the one place they can stand out and fit in at the same time. This charming group of misfits and outsiders learn that winning isn't everything and that losing doesn't necessarily make you a loser. Spelling Bee is a light-hearted, feel-good show that prompts such easy to spell adjectives as charming, sweet, endearing and quirky.