kc Molière: 400 IN 2022
Join us as we showcase the world's greatest comedic playwright with a three- year city-wide celebration of Molière’s 400th birthday, including a big birthday bash at the Nelson-Atkins on May 1, 2022. The 2021-22 theatre season launched a season of Molière plays, Molière-inspired new works, and French neoclassical and Baroque works embracing all of the arts: theatre, dance, music, film, puppetry, visual, culinary, and literary. Events have been underway for two years during this countdown to the birthday party, including the Missouri Bicentennial inauguration of the François Chouteau & Native American Heritage Fountain.