The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Thursday, August 18, 2016
6:30pm
Kansas City remembers Charles O. Finley, the unconventional owner of baseball’s Athletics when they made their home here in the ’60s, for parading a m...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
6:30pm
Two of the world’s leading writers of epic fantasy – Tamora Pierce (Song of the Lioness, Protector of the Small) and...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 11, 2016
6:30pm
It's not just bullies in the schoolyard that should worry us. Charles Derber and Yale Magrass point to a larger, mor...
Signature Event
Saturday, July 30, 2016
2:00pm
Jane Austen remains famous today for Pride and Prejudice and other novels in which she reflects on the life of the British land gentry at the end of t...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Many Americans see life in Cuba in black and white terms, as either a David-vs.-Goliath story of survival over nearly 50 years or constant oppressi...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
6:30pm
The question may be met with chagrin by traditionalists, but to some, the identity of William Shakespeare is not positively decided.
They have tro...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 7, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Derek Cressman has fought for more than 20 years to remove big money from politics, among other things seeking reversal of Citizens U...
Signature Event
Monday, June 27, 2016
1:30pm
In Person
Mondays in June, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s four-part series of inside-the-play presentations focuses on its summ...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 16, 2016
6:30pm
Erik Didriksen, a New York musician and Tumblr poet featured in Vanity Fair, BuzzFeed, and the A.V. Club, has cleverly reimagined more than 1...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
6:30pm
His comedies, histories, and tragedies have been performed worldwide for more than 400 years, but William Shakespeare’s personal life remains somethin...