Brock Wilbur
Editor-in-Chief
Articles
Coterie Theatre appoints Khalia Davis as new Producing Artistic Director The nationally award-winning children's theatre was shaken by a series of accusations in late 2022. Davis will be tasked with moving The Coterie forward while reckoning with its past, as an outsider.
April 1, 2020
Unicorn Theatre’s Poor Clare is a TikTok-styled modernization of a saint’s awakening within a cruel world Andi Meyer directs the hell outta Chiara Atik's comedy.
April 1, 2020
Shudder’s Dario Argento Panico is an introductory class to one of the giallo greats
April 1, 2020
Here for Blood is the babysitter-man bloodbath wrestling comedy no one knew they needed"Babe, I'm starting to think these aren't sex perverts."
April 1, 2020
KC Film Critics Circle announce 58th Annual James Loutzenhiser Awards for excellence in film Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer —nominated in seven categories—received six awards.
April 1, 2020
KCAT’s Gaslight is a tense thriller staged as a razor wire balancing act
April 1, 2020
CAKE’s John McCrea talks anger, radiation, and end of days touring ahead of Grinders gigs in KC
April 1, 2020
Loud Light Kansas Politics Recap: death row ruling, flat tax, and laying down for lobbyists
April 1, 2020
David Ayer’s The Beekeeper unleashes Jason Statham to take cartoonish revenge on tech bros
April 1, 2020
First Time Caller adapts a podcast into a quick hit of sci-fi delirium"You read The Secret and now you think you have the cheat code to pussy?" lives "Brent Free" in your head.
April 1, 2020
Up-and-coming KC painter Olivia Barbosa answers The Pitch Questionnaire Our January magazine cover designer introduces her work to the city.
April 1, 2020
Letter from the Editor: Moving the goal postsApril 1, 2020
Jacob Elordi and Zachary Quinto’s monkey business get murderous in road trip thriller He Went That Way
April 1, 2020
The Unicorn’s Journey to the Poles of Inaccessibility is a globe-trotting fantasy that tackles some big swings
April 1, 2020
Riverside Live Nation venue aims for 2025 opening
April 1, 2020
Merry Little Batman lets Wayne Jr. follow too closely in his father’s flightpath for an animated holiday specialApril 1, 2020
Letter from the Editor: Paint you in silver, wrap you in coldApril 1, 2020
It’s a Wonderful Knife is queer as hell Christmas horror packed with cleavers and clever twistsApril 1, 2020
Interfaith vigil calling for Gaza ceasefire set for Thursday afternoon at Mill Creek Park
April 1, 2020
KU’s production of Milking Christmas goes full-tilt merry for anti-capitalist holiday musical
April 1, 2020
U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II shifts position to join call for Israel-Gaza “ceasefire”
April 1, 2020
Not Just A Phase Fest brings Yellowcard, Bayside, 30H!3, Hoobastank, Secondhand Serenade, and Emery to Legends in 2024 The reason is you, apparently.
April 1, 2020
THUNDERGONG! 2023 raises nearly $900k for Steps of Faith foundation via beard trimming and Tom Petty covers Billy Brimblecom and Jason Sudeikis' 7th staging of the annual fundraiser reaps big rewards for charity.
April 1, 2020
We Are Blood takes Missouri family drama and salts the earth with its stainsApril 1, 2020
The Head and the Heart invite audiences to share in their collective sober vibes on current tour The band rocks Liberty Hall on Nov. 13 with support from Yoke Lore (and Hop Water.)
April 1, 2020
Vinyl Renaissance & Audio in Overland Park to close at year’s end
April 1, 2020
Tech N9ne will flip the switch for the Plaza lights this Christmas
April 1, 2020
Letter from the Editor: High Scores Ahead with The Pitch’s Best of Kansas City 2023April 1, 2020
Five Nights at Freddy’s skips scares for melodrama and slowly sucks the power from a punchy propertyApril 1, 2020
David Slade’s Dark Harvest is a trick-or-treat Hunger Games with a pumpkinman full of candy and bloodlust The long shelved slasher flick unceremoniously drops in time for Halloween, and it got *this close* to being A Thing.
April 1, 2020
Shudder’s V/H/S/85 tackles Satanic Panic, VR, and TV news in its strongest installment yet
April 1, 2020
The Mars Volta’s first KC show in 14 years goes full barnburner at Uptown
April 1, 2020
KC Current trounce Chicago Red Stars in final home match at Children’s Mercy
April 1, 2020
Demián Rugna’s When Evil Lurks is the splatterhouse possession nightmare by which all others will be judged Rugna is an Argentine angel of death and When Evil Lurks is cinema dripping with delightful poison.
April 1, 2020
311 closes out the Grinders concert year in style with sold out evening of greatest hits in an amber haze With support from Blame My Youth and AWOLNATION.
April 1, 2020
Letter from the Editor: Our special place and the joy of human weaknessApril 1, 2020
Netflix’s Fair Play over-delivers in its throwback to ’90s erotic thrillers
April 1, 2020
311’s S.A. Martinez talks 30 years of Omaha adventures, rock cruises, and the glory of Turnstile ahead of Oct. 1 Grinders KC gig
April 1, 2020
Mister Organ is David Farrier’s latest rabbit hole fever dream and a journalist’s best nightmareThe documentarian behind Tickled returns with another story that should have been quirky but instead ends up quantum.
April 1, 2020
James Chen of The Walking Dead on starring in KCRep’s Cyrano de Bergerac and his first KC burnt ends "It hammers home what an outlier of a character he is across the spectrum and shows the audience how fast and dangerous his mind can be."
April 1, 2020
