The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Thursday, June 27, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) is among the most overlooked presidents in U.S. history even though his progressive values helped shape the course of 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
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
6:30pm
Angela Elam of New Letters on the Air, aired locally on KCUR 89.3 FM, holds a public conversation with author and Independen...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
6:30pm
Due to a quirk in the calendar in the year 1849, one school of thought contends that Missourian David Rice Atchison deserves to be co...
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
Thursday, November 21, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
If George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are the saints in America’s civil religion, then the 29th president, Warren G. Harding, is o...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
6:30pm
Patrick Rosal’s poetry, writes one critic, “skillfully navigates between despair and love, between violence and music, between loss a...