The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Sunday, July 31, 2016
2:00pm
From its early days as a cowtown – a jumping-off point to the West and shipping center for meat and wheat – Kansas City not only grew into a Midwest m...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
6:30pm
The 2016 Art in the Loop Project: Connect, a curated outdoor exhibition staged in partnership with the City of Kansas City, Missouri,...
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
Wednesday, July 6, 2016
6:30pm
Kansas City’s Mark English was a top magazine illustrator for more than four decades, his work appearing in TIME, Sports...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 26, 2016
2:00pm
The Library continues its 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances and more than six months of special...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 23, 2016
6:30pm
The book we know as the First Folio wasn’t given that title by the two Shakespeare colleagues who posthumously published his plays in 1623. Its formal...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
6:30pm
Was the Bard an old-school Jay Z?
Shakespeare’s theatre isn’t as far removed from modern-day hip hop as you might think. Both represent energetic...
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
Monday, June 13, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Early on, the women in Shakespeare’s works tended to be simple caricatures – shrews to be tamed or sweet little things with no discernible independent...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
6:30pm
When librarians in a township in northern France began wondering late in 2014 whether their centuries-old book of Shakespeare’s works might be a rare...