The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Memphis, a sprawling, river-flanked, music- and barbecue-imbued city some 7½ hours to the south, offers some important lessons in development for Kans...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Tiffany Elder, co-chair of a Durham, North Carolina-based consortium called The Collective, talks about its work to facilitate equitable city building...
Signature Event
Monday, May 23, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Nearly 60 years after its release, Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Kansas City-area journalist Christopher Leonard returns to the Library to discuss his new book The Lords of Easy Money...
Signature Event
Monday, May 9, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Director Ridley Scott takes a sweeping look back to the Crusades and the brutal fighting between Christians and Muslims over the First Kingdom of J...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 5, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Participants from Glenn North’s May 1 poetry workshop take the stage to share their work. The readings draw heavily from U.S. Poet...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Maybe you know Molière. If not … well, Kansas City’s French roots lend a connection to the great French playwright, who may rank second only to Sha...
Signature Event
Monday, February 10, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
Premiering in 1971, winner of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle and off-Broadway Obie awards for best American play, The House of Blue Le...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 8, 2019
2:00pm
In Person
Recorded by Dylan Thomas in 1952 and published in book form two years later, A Child’s Christmas in Wales endures as one of the...
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...