July 16-26th, 2026

2025 Festival

2025 Shows

Alibi

Lilith KC Productions

MA – Mature Audiences

An Anarchy Heist Show

The Bird Comedy Theater

MA – Mature Audiences

The Bird Comedy Theater

Analise Has A Gun

Chris Hopper

PG – Parental Guidance

The Arts Asylum

Another Life Story

Devising Original Theatre Springfield (DOTS)

AA – All Ages

Apologies for the Late Reply

Ben San Del Presents

MA – Mature Audiences

Unicorn Theatre- Jerome Stage

B.S. Before Sluttery

Scarlett d. Jones

MA – Mature Audiences

Kansas City Oasis

Beth & Josie EXPOSED

Beth Marshall Presents/EXPOSED

MA – Mature Audiences

The Bird Comedy Theater

Boomer Mommas’ SHOES. Sparkle

BoomerMomma Gma Productions

PG – Parental Guidance

Center for Spiritual Living

Breakneck Midsummer Night’s Dream

Timothy Mooney Repertory Theatre

PG – Parental Guidance

City Stage at Union Station

Chatelaine Gaze

Risqué Revelry

MA – Mature Audiences

The Arts Asylum

Cirque du Fils

Shit post modernist theater company

PG – Parental Guidance

Unicorn Theatre- Jerome Stage

Director’s Cut: Where Play Becomes Magic

Deconstructing Directing

PG – Parental Guidance

F*ck Uterus

Shannon Liana Walsh

MA – Mature Audiences

Center for Spiritual Living

Fringe-ABILITY

The Martin City Melodrama & Vaudeville Co.

AA – All Ages

Unicorn Theatre- Jerome Stage

Gleenior Year: The Final Satirical Stage Adaptation of the Hit FOX TV Show Glee

Faust Theatre

AA – All Ages

The Arts Asylum

GLORIOUS DICTATOR!

Bottoms Up Sketch Comedy

MA – Mature Audiences

The Bird Comedy Theater

Godzilla’s Not a Dinosaur

Abby Bland

MA – Mature Audiences

Music Theater Heritage

Harry & Perry’s 100th One-Man Show

Cody Lindenberger

MA – Mature Audiences

The Bird Comedy Theater

Have you touched the sand?

Moo

AA – All Ages

Music Theater Heritage

Hitchcock’d

The Spooky Shit Show

MA – Mature Audiences

Unicorn Theatre- Levin Stage

Home Town

Ashley Nicole Audette

MA – Mature Audiences

Unicorn Theatre- Jerome Stage

Hot Ham & Cheese

PTM Studios

MA – Mature Audiences

City Stage at Union Station

How to Be Cool

Neil Bhandari

MA – Mature Audiences

How to Smoke Three Cigarettes at Once

Co.Arts Theater Co.

PG – Parental Guidance

If it’s 7:30 in the Living Room, What Time is it in the Kitchen?

Scott Cohen

PG – Parental Guidance

Kansas City Oasis

INSIDE/OUTSIDE

Christina Foltz

MA – Mature Audiences

Unicorn Theatre- Jerome Stage

It’s Not Over Till The Legends Sing Pt. 2: Back To Love

John “Br. John” Anderson

PG – Parental Guidance

Kansas City Oasis

J.D. Rowland: My Life at 40

J.D. Rowland

MA – Mature Audiences

Jazz: The Women Who Shaped Me

Eboni Fondren

AA – All Ages

Music Theater Heritage

JON BENNETT: AMERICAN’T

Leave That Mess for Me Productions

PG – Parental Guidance

Music Theater Heritage

Jon Bennett: HOW I LEARNED TO HUG

Leave That Mess for Me Productions

PG – Parental Guidance

Kansas City Oasis

Keeper of the Plains

Brianne Taylor

PG – Parental Guidance

Killers in the Woods

Fabled Fox Theatrics

MA – Mature Audiences

MCC Penn Valley- Little Theater

Legends of the Night Sky

Circus Scorpius

AA – All Ages

City Stage at Union Station

Looking Glass

Violet Mirage

PG – Parental Guidance

Center for Spiritual Living

MacB Witched

Wildflower Productions

PG – Parental Guidance

Music Theater Heritage

Maltese Murder, The

Hammett Time

AA – All Ages

Unicorn Theatre- Levin Stage

NED’s Night-Hole LIVE

The Emerald

MA – Mature Audiences

The Bird Comedy Theater

No Place Like Home

Nick Mangiaracina

MA – Mature Audiences

Problematic Man

Summit Theatre Group

AA – All Ages

Center for Spiritual Living

Process: Inevitable A Musical Journey

Ideality Labs

AA – All Ages

Unicorn Theatre- Levin Stage

Psalm 27 Club

Logan Myles Stacer

PG – Parental Guidance

Kansas City Oasis

Re:Post

Re:Post Theatre

AA – All Ages

MCC Penn Valley- Little Theater

Rod Sipe Presents…Fact or Crap?!? It’s your call!

Pirate Productions

MA – Mature Audiences

The Arts Asylum

Salome

1009arts

PG – Parental Guidance

MCC Penn Valley- Little Theater

Sh*tty Deal Puppet Theatre’s Complete History of America

Sh*tty Deal Puppet Theatre Company

MA – Mature Audiences

Sickly Victorian Rat Circus

Small Buns Duo

AA – All Ages

MCC Penn Valley- Little Theater

Sticks & Stones

Megan Reynolds & Chelsey Shirrell

MA – Mature Audiences

The Arts Asylum

Swap Meet Synchronicity

Billy Blob

MA – Mature Audiences

Unicorn Theatre- Levin Stage

Telling Audrey

Ghost Theatre

MA – Mature Audiences

City Stage at Union Station

Terrace Wyatt Jr.’s: Mel’N E [Melanin & Educated]

Terrace Studios, LLC

MA – Mature Audiences

Music Theater Heritage

The Banned Book Librarian of the Midwest

Csquared Productions

MA – Mature Audiences

Unicorn Theatre- Jerome Stage

The Enemies From Within

Mike Rice

MA – Mature Audiences

MCC Penn Valley- Little Theater

The Free State

Madi White

PG – Parental Guidance

Unicorn Theatre- Jerome Stage

The Glamour Puss Show

Emily Taradash

AA – All Ages

City Stage at Union Station

The Navel Gazers

Starr Street Productions

PG – Parental Guidance

The One Where We Make It Up

Improv SpringBoard

PG – Parental Guidance

The Others

Cyclopedic Ensemble

MA – Mature Audiences

The Arts Asylum

The Strong Black Girl is A Myth

The Favored Things

PG – Parental Guidance

Center for Spiritual Living

The Year of Sluttery – SPECIAL ONE-TIME SHOWING

Scarlett d. Jones

MA – Mature Audiences

Kansas City Oasis

Timey Wimey Stuff: The Mid Life Crisis of a Time Traveling Space Archaeologist

Victoria Montalbano

PG – Parental Guidance

The Bird Comedy Theater

To Boldly Go

Phil Kinen’s Big Show

MA – Mature Audiences

Unicorn Theatre- Levin Stage

2025 Films

40 or 50 Short Films by Drew G. Smith

Drew G. Smith

Stray Cat Film Center

MA – Mature Audiences

April Fool

PTM Studios

Stray Cat Film Center

MA – Mature Audiences

Coffee With Cheryl

New Digital Pathways

Stray Cat Film Center

AA – All Ages

Every Picture Tells a Story: Films of the IFCKC

Independent Filmmakers Coalition

Stray Cat Film Center

PG – Parental Guidance

KCCAT Presents The Weirdos Comedy Hour II

Forest Kinsey Films & ManaSharc Productions

Stray Cat Film Center

PG – Parental Guidance

Look at the Darkness (Don’t Stare)

Maya Tillman-Rayton

Stray Cat Film Center

AA – All Ages

World Championship Arm Wrestling III

The Bird Comedy Theater

Stray Cat Film Center

MA – Mature Audiences

2025 Visual Arts