The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Thursday, September 15, 2016
6:30pm
This event has been canceled at the speaker’s request. We will make every effort to notify interested persons when and i...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
6:30pm
America’s longest war began with an Apache raid and kidnapping of an Arizona rancher’s 12-year-old stepson in 1861. It would last more than a quarter...
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
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
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
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
6:30pm
When her daughter was born nearly four months premature, Deanna Fei confronted a shattering question: Had she delivered a child or lo...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 26, 2016
6:30pm
Take Shakespeare’s mistaken-identity farce, The Comedy of Errors. Give it a modern, hip-hop flavor. And you get The Bomb-itty of...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 5, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
John Hay and Samuel Clemens grew up some 50 miles apart along the Mississippi River and became acquainted early in their respective careers – Hay a...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Alexander von Humboldt was, in his time, one of the most interesting men in the world.
The 19th-century explorer and naturalist climbed volcanoes...