The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
6:30pm
The latest installment of the Library’s Emmy Award-winning series, Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III, spotlights one of t...
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
A conversation with eminent writer Ernest Hemingway, as portrayed by Rusty Sneary....
Signature Event
Thursday, September 11, 2014
6:30pm
From Kansas City’s signature Country Club Plaza to pristine shopping districts and neighborhoods across the country, J.C. Nichols’ imprint on the Amer...
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
In Person
Barry’s 1939 comedy—about a ditzy socialite whose wedding plans are complicated by the simultaneous arrival of her ex-husband and a newspaper...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 2, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Among the most-performed comedies of the 20th century, Neil Simon’s 1965 Broadway hit is about two recently divorced men – the slob sportswriter Os...
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
Thursday, October 10, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Tom Bass, portrayed by veteran actor Wa...