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The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s four-part series of inside-the-play presentations focuses on its summer production of...

The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s four-part series of inside-the-play presentations focuses on its summer production of...

The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s four-part series of inside-the-play presentations focuses on its summer production of...

From Patsy Cline (two days before she perished in a plane crash in 1963) to the Beatles to the Jacksons’ Victory Tour, former Kansas City Star...

Thomas Frank is a liberal by conviction but an equal-opportunity critic of America’s foundering political system. In a discussion of...

Rutgers University historian Rachel Devlin examines an underappreciated aspect of civil rights history – the crucial role of young African-Amer...

Bruce Katz, director of Drexel University’s Nowak Metro Finance Lab, discusses his book The New Localism: How Cities Can...

Historian Joel Rhodes, who led research for the Library exhibit It Finally Happened Here: The Kansas City Riot, April 9-12, 1968...

Veteran British director and master acting teacher Ian Wooldridge has helmed more than 100 stage productions, including The Tempes...

Moral corruption, revenge, madness, murder. Shakespeare’s Hamlet runs the gamut of dysfunction. Set in the castle of Elsinore just after the...