Arts News

Messiah Project is a Christian performing arts company based in Springfield since 1991. This spring, they're forming a women's vocal ensemble to put on a pair of special concerts.

Ozarks Lyric Opera's Artistic Director Michael Spyres talks up their new "Don Giovanni" production, his upcoming Metropolitan Opera broadcast, his new album — and what it means to be a "hillbilly knight."

It's live theatre, so things sometimes go wrong for real — with hilarious results, says director Beth Domann.

A talk with Dr. Kyle A. Thomas, director of one of the two dramas playing the next several days in repertory in Craig Hall Balcony Theatre.

It's believed to be the largest production featuring a Black cast in Springfield history: Beginning February 10, Mosaic Arts Collective and Springfield Contemporary Theatre are staging a musical version of “The Color Purple."

For the first time in about two decades, the Missouri State University Opera Theatre and the Missouri State Symphony Orchestra will collaborate for a performance of Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel."

This year's Ozzie Awards will be presented in person for the first time since COVID-19 began affecting the Ozarks.

Much like the prep school students in the hit Jack Black comedy film, Springfield Little Theatre's young cast learned to play musical instruments for this production.

The earliest opera still in the repertory, dating from 1607, will provide an exotic treat for opera lovers Dec. 17 at University Heights Baptist Church.

Stephen Temperley's funny, tuneful and poignant play about Florence Foster Jenkins, the wealthy socialite who thought she was a talented coloratura soprano, is given its southwest Missouri premiere by Springfield Contemporary Theatre.