After canceling all indoor performances during the coronavirus pandemic, the Lied Center has announced that it will reopen for the upcoming 2021-2022 season. The Lied Center, 1600 Stewart Drive, will be open at full capacity for the season, which begins Sept. 17, according to a news release. ...
The annual Free State Festival is returning this summer with a variety of events, including outdoor film screenings that will begin next week. As the Journal-World reported in March, after being disrupted by the pandemic last year, the Free State Festival, which is put on by the Lawrence Arts ...
After last year’s fireworks show was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, several community partners are joining together this year to host a July 4 celebration that will include live music, food and a fireworks display over central Lawrence. The City of Lawrence, Douglas County, ...
If downtown Lawrence is the city’s crown jewel, then the city’s outgoing tourism director thinks there is more the community can do to make it shine, as well as other community gems that deserve a little more attention. Michael Davidson, the executive director of local convention and ...
Langston Hughes has always been a part of playwright Darren Canady’s life, and now Canady is portraying him on stage in Theatre Lawrence’s latest production. Canady, who is also an associate professor at the University of Kansas, remembers reading Hughes’ “The Negro Speaks of ...
The isolation of the coronavirus pandemic has meant few changes of scene for some, but creeping out in the night with a wagon full of props, one Lawrence resident changed that for her neighbors. The idea had come to Village Cooperative resident Jane Sharp in March, when the coronavirus ...