Earlier this month, we published The Pitch’s annual Best of Kansas City issue. You can take a peek at the results of the readers’ poll here. The issue also included a list, compiled and written by our editorial staff, of some local people, places, and things that we thought clearly won 2025. We’ll be publishing these items online throughout November.

One stage play in 2025 took us all by storm, and The Pitch is ride or die for a little show that delivered a delightfully horrible time—thanks to the killer creatives over at Unicorn Theatre.

fire work is exactly what we yearn for when we crave clever criticism, and the Orwellian comedy of the whole thing does what satire has failed to do in our modern era: find a way to escalate beyond how fucking bad things have gotten.

Director Katie Gil

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