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Ouisa Kittredge is an affluent New York socialite in love with culture, so much so that her conversation is teeming with references to art, inter...

In the third season of the Script-in-Hand series of stage performances, the Kansas City Public Library and Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre...

Physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg — teacher and student, respectively — helped define the theoretical limits of the modern age. In Copenh...

This annual film series takes a look at Marriage & Family – Under the Surface, starting with Robert Redford’s Oscar-winning direct...

This August Wilson drama examines the many avenues of success denied by...

The Library’s fifth Script-in-Hand season closes with the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre’s performance of Guys and Doll...

Barry’s 1939 comedy—about a ditzy socialite whose wedding plans are complicated by the simultaneous arrival of her ex-husband and a newspaper...

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...

Two American originals—baseball and musical comedy—meet in this 1955 fantasy which updates the Faustian legend to the modern American b...

This annual series returns in January and February with psychological studies of films directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, whose visi...