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Ben Whitcomb, of Sedalia, was the technical director for “Comings and Goings,” part of the University of Central Missouri’s one-act plays staged from Feb. 2 through 4. Whitcomb is a senior at UCM and a 2005 graduate of Smith-Cotton...... Full story

Center Stage Academy of the Performing Arts in Sedalia will stage “Schoolhouse Rock Live! Jr.” at 2 and 6 p.m. Feb. 11 at the Heckart Performing Arts Center, 2010 Tiger Pride Blvd. in Sedalia.Tickets are $6 and are available for purchase...... Full story

The “Masquerade” tribal arts exhibition will be on display through February at the McClure Archives and University Museum in the Kirkpatrick Library, 60 Missouri Street, on the campus of the University of Central Missouri in...... Full story

Washington Elementary School students took a musical journey on the road of ragtime Tuesday afternoon, courtesy of 2012 Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival artist-in-residence Nan Bostick.The Menlo Park, Calif., resident told the students they were going...... Full story

The Tuskegee Airmen, a group of World War II fighter pilots trained in Tuskegee, Ala., were American’s first African-American military aviators. Overcoming formidable racial barriers in the segregated military, they were eventually recognized...... Full story

Members of the State Fair Community College Theatre Arts program will present Tennessee Williams’ family drama “The Glass Menagerie” Feb. 15-19 in the Stauffacher Theatre on the Sedalia campus.This four-character, autobiographical...... Full story

The University of Central Missouri’s Department of Theatre & Dance has rescheduled a visit from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel. She will be leading a closed playwriting workshop for UCM and Warrensburg High School students...... Full story

Before he became director of the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art four years ago, Tom Piche had worked in art galleries nestled in beautiful old buildings in his native New York. But, although he appreciated the history of those buildings,...... Full story

The Smith-Cotton Junior High art show will have an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Feb. 16 at the Liberty Center’s Loft Gallery, 111 W. Fifth St. in Sedalia.Admission is free.The exhibit will be on display through February. Gallery hours...... Full story

Today, it’s hard to imagine State Fair Community College without the Stauffacher Center for the Fine Arts, the Fred E. Davis Multipurpose Center or the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art.But a decade-and-a-half ago, theater students performed...... Full story

The Kaysinger Conference High School art show will be from Feb. 3 through 10 at the south end of the track by the elevators in the Fred E. Davis Multipurpose Center on the campus of State Fair Community College.The art show is in conjunction with...... Full story

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Dolly Parton and hip-hopper-turned-actress Queen Latifah tussle for the musical direction of their church choir as it prepares for a big annual sing-off in “Joyful Noise,” a new comedy-drama from writer and director Todd...... Full story

SpoFest will present the theme of romantic of romantic poetry from 7 to 9 p.m. Feb. 22 at Thompson Conference Center A in the Heckart Building on the State Fair Community College campus in Sedalia.Admission is free and refreshments will be...... Full story

The Cooper County Activities Association Art Show was held Jan. 20-25 in conjunction with the conference basketball tournament in Otterville.  Each of the seven schools was allowed to enter 20 pieces of art from grades 7-12. There were 34...... Full story