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Lawrence, Kansas

  • Lawrence Community Theatre

    Lawrence Community TheatreEnjoy live theatre in an intimate setting at the Lawrence Community Theatre. This redesigned church seats theatre-goers in tiered seating on three sides of a thrust stage where no seat is more than tw...
    Lawrence Community Theatre

  • The University Theatre

    KU's internationally renowned University Theatre offers a wide array of classical, musical, and contemporary productions in three major series - The University Theatre Series, William Inge Memorial Th...
    The University Theatre

Attractions and Upcoming Events

Depot and Visitors Center

During its post-Civil War rebuilding, one of Lawrence's main goals was to establish itself as the railroad hub of the Midwest. In 1882, Union Pacific spent $40,000 buying lots in North Lawrence and announced that it would build a new passenger depot. The 1889

Lawrence, KS Railroad History

Carnegie Building

The Carnegie Building was built in 1904 as one of Andrew Carnegie's philanthropic contributions to the growth of cultural opportunities for rural communities. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the building had housed the Lawrence Arts Center until 2002

Lawrence, KS Carnegie Libraries

Stan Herd Earth Art

The Medicine Wheel earth art was designed by a Haskell art instructor and Haskell students and built by internationally known crop-artist, Stan Herd (also a Lawrencian). Crop art is a way of planting and growing crops to create a visual image, in this case the medicine wheel. Although a bird'

Lawrence, KS Arts

Wilcox Classical Museum at Kansas University

Life-size plaster casts of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture and antiquities, such as vases and coins, are a part of this collection established in 1888

Lawrence, KS Museums

Opera House/Liberty Hall

Liberty Hall was rebuilt in 1911 as Bowersock Opera House after fire destroyed the original Liberty Hall. Renovated in the 1980

Lawrence, KS Historic Buildings

Things to do near Lawrence, KS

Sam Peppard's Wind Wagon

Stan Herd Earth Art

Kansas Expocentre

Melvern Boating

Kansas University