The Kansas City Repertory Theatre, the
metropolitan area's top professional theatre company and the Starlight Theatre,
8,105-seat outdoor theatre designed by Edward Delk are a popular theatre
company and theatre respectively. The Kansas City Symphony was founded by R.
Crosby Kemper Jr. in 1982 to supersede the Kansas City Philharmonic, which was
founded 1933. The symphony currently is located at the new Kauffman Center for
the Performing Arts. The current music director and lead conductor of the
symphony is Michael Stern. Lyric Opera of Kansas City, founded in 1958, offers
one American
