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As part of the Making a Great City series, Jenny Schuetz, Senior Fellow at Brookings Metro, discusses her latest book Fixer-Upper: How to Repair Ameri...

What does it mean to be a “great city”? Since 2018, the Library has hosted public presentations by urban planners and round-table conversations with c...

A little more than two weeks before Christmas, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) delivers two script-i...

The Library continues its 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances and more than six months of special programming surrounding o...

The Library continues its 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances and more than six months of special programming surrounding o...

The Library’s ninth season of Script-in-Hand performances, featuring the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre concludes...

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...

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...

The Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre premieres its eighth season of Script-in-Hand performances – a series of classi...

Author-educator Herbert Alan Johnson explains how a lawsuit over a steamboat monopoly ultimately led to Congress gaining the power to...