Signature Event Strictly Speaking: Equal Rights Should Have No Deadline Saturday, August 29, 2020 10:00am How close are we to ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment? The question hangs anew over Congress. And the courts. Erica Bens... Read More
Signature Event Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener Thursday, August 27, 2020 6:30pm At 23, while serving as the youngest school principal in the state, Alice Chenoweth was excoriated in Ohio’s newspapers in 1876 for having an affai... Read More
Signature Event Qualified Rights: Women’s Suffrage, Citizenship, and the 19th Amendment Reconsidered Tuesday, August 18, 2020 6:30pm One hundred years ago this month, women won their fight for the right to vote – though not all of them. Black women, who had pleaded as passionatel... Read More
Signature Event Aaron Sorkin’s A Few Good Men Monday, November 11, 2019 6:30pm Plaza Branch Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) commemorates Veterans Day with a script-in-hand reading of Aaron Sorkin’s sizzl... Read More
Signature Event A Child's Christmas in Wales Sunday, December 9, 2018 2:00pm Central Library A little more than two weeks before Christmas, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) delivers two script-i... Read More
Signature Event Mister Roberts Monday, November 12, 2018 6:30pm Plaza Branch Commemorating Veterans Day, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) deliver a script-in-hand performance of... Read More
Signature Event Studs Terkel's Working Monday, September 10, 2018 6:30pm Plaza Branch In a script-in-hand performance commemorating Labor Day, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) read select... Read More
Signature Event Taming of the Shrew: A Role Reversal Sunday, March 18, 2018 2:00pm Plaza Branch In the latest installment of the Library’s popular Script-in-Hand series, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival offers a unique performance of The... Read More
Signature Event Shakespeare and the Art of the Word - Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre Sunday, June 26, 2016 2:00pm Central Library The Library continues its 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances and more than six months of special... Read More
Signature Event One-Acts by Charles George - Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre Sunday, March 6, 2016 2:00pm Plaza Branch The Library continues its 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances and more than six months of special... Read More