The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Monday, November 11, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) commemorates Veterans Day with a script-in-hand reading of Aaron Sorkin’s sizzl...
Signature Event
Monday, November 12, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Commemorating Veterans Day, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) deliver a script-in-hand performance of...
Signature Event
Monday, September 10, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a script-in-hand performance commemorating Labor Day, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) read select...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 18, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
In the latest installment of the Library’s popular Script-in-Hand series, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival offers a unique performance of The...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 7, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book President McKinley: Architect of the American Century, acclaimed historian Robert Merry gives 2...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Veteran British director and master acting teacher Ian Wooldridge has helmed more than 100 stage productions, including The Tempes...
Signature Event
Saturday, June 3, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Sidney Blumenthal, a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton and later an advisor to Hillary Clinton, continues to offer a fresh...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy was three years into his incendiary search for Communists when Dwight Eisenhower assumed the presidency in 1953. Ike...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
This year’s election stakes are high, as always. But perhaps no presidential vote in U.S. history was more consequential than that of 1860....