Now being performed at the Kauffman Center and concluding this weekend is a wonderful rendition by the Lyric Opera of Kansas City of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s final composition together, “The Sound of ...

The Sound of Music debuted on Broadway November 16, 1959 as a musical loosely based on “The Story of the Trapp Family Singers,” a memoir written a decade earlier by the real-life Maria von Trapp.

Praised for its immersive approach to mapping out a drummer’s confrontation with hearing loss, writer-director Darius Marder’s “Sound of Metal,” now contending for six Academy Awards, features a ...