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Kansas City-area performer Rockin’ Rob educates and entertains with an original style of children’s music incorporating folk, a cappe...

The acclaimed 2010 film Black Swan offers a strange and terrifying interpretation of the dance world, revolving around a bal...

Biographer Arnold Rampersad discusses Harlem Renaissance luminary Langston Hughes and his relationship with a number of photographers...

The Library continues its 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances and more than six months of special...

At 83, SuEllen Fried’s social conscience has scarcely ebbed. The Prairie Village native – one of former President George H.W. Bush's...

Area high school students bring Shakespeare to life, lending their own interpretations of his monologues and sonnets as they compete for a berth in th...

Nearly three years before the Supreme Court’s ruling against school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka – the commonly ackno...

William Blake gets his due today as not only a great poet but also an extraordinary, 18th-century English engraver, artist, and visionary. A boldly im...

Hollywood has adapted, sampled, and stolen from William Shakespeare for more than a century – seeing his works as a source of prestige as soon as the...

They are the most famous and controversial directors in the history of the CIA – Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, and William Casey – and t...