Signature Event Hollywood vs. History: 'The Man Who Would Be King' Monday, January 24, 2022 6:00pm Online The format of this event has been changed to virtual only. Watch online at yout... Read More
Signature Event From Page to Screen: Boy Erased Sunday, February 23, 2020 1:30pm Plaza Branch In Person The Library wraps up this year’s Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series with a final screening and discussion of a film adapted f... Read More
Signature Event From Page to Screen: Disobedience Sunday, February 9, 2020 1:30pm Plaza Branch In Person The Library continues this year’s Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series – featuring films adapted from books – with the 2017 dra... Read More
Signature Event From Page to Screen: The Outsiders Sunday, January 26, 2020 1:30pm Plaza Branch In Person The month’s second Searching the Psyche Through Cinema installment features Francis Ford Coppola’s classic look at life on the... Read More
Signature Event From Page to Screen: Wild Sunday, January 12, 2020 1:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Sigmund Freud, the celebrated father of psychoanalysis, often referenced literature and theater in his analytic theory. The annual Searc... Read More
Signature Event Aaron Sorkin’s A Few Good Men Monday, November 11, 2019 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person 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 In Person 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 In Person 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 Person 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 Person 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