The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Sunday, March 8, 2015
2:00pm
The Library’s ninth season of Script-in-Hand performances, featuring the Metropolitan Ensemble Th...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 15, 2015
2:00pm
The Library’s ninth season of Script-in-Hand performances, featuring the Metropolitan Ensemble Th...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 11, 2014
2:00pm
Two American originals—baseball and musical comedy—meet in this 1955 fantasy which updates the Faustian legend to the modern American base...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 13, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Winner of the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, You Can’t Take It With You centers on the Sycamore family, whose members initially seem crazy. A...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 16, 2014
2:00pm
Barry’s 1939 comedy—about a ditzy socialite whose wedding plans are complicated by the simultaneous arrival of her ex-husband and a newspaper re...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 2, 2014
2:00pm
Among the most-performed comedies of the 20th century, Neil Simon’s 1965 Broadway hit is about two recently divorced men – the slob sportswriter Oscar...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 24, 2013
2:00pm
The Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre premieres its eighth season of Script-in-Hand performances – a series of classic c...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
On the 150th anniversary of William Clarke Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, Tony R. Mullis of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff Co...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 18, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
William Quantrill’s August 21, 1863 Confederate raid on Lawrence, Kansas, left nearly 200 men and boys dead and the city in flames. Film expert...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 14, 2012
1:00pm
In Person
Author Wade Sisson discusses the Titanic’s sister ship, the R.M.S. Olympic, which steamed 300 miles in a desperate...