Brock Wilbur

California, Kansas City, New York

Editor-in-Chief at The Pitch (Kansas City)

Articles

Midwest makers flash their own couture brilliance at Kansas City Fashion Week

2 weeks ago | thepitchkc.com | Brock Wilbur

If you look up midwest fashion, you don't get Vogue articles and street style fashion coverage. You get pictures of christian girl autumn-esque, pumpkin spice latte drinking women in skinny jeans, knee high boots, and infinity scarves. Yet, this isn't specific to just the midwest, as many other regions of the United States are equally unrepresented. When people hear fashion week, it's likely that Kansas City is not the city they associate the term with.
Kansas City FilmFest International announces 2025 winners from features, shorts, and homegrown cinema

3 weeks ago | thepitchkc.com | Brock Wilbur

For twenty-nine years, Kansas City FilmFest International has brought audiences, films, and filmmakers together to celebrate the power of storytelling through the cinematic arts. Hitting last weekend-alongside KC's Panic Fest up at Screenland Armour-the famous cinema collective event featured categories full of features, shorts, and even screenplays.
More Heisenberg, less Hindenburg

3 weeks ago | thepitchkc.com | Brock Wilbur

Greetings dearest reader, and welcome to the April 2025 print issue of The Pitch magazine-homegrown right here in Kansas City, USA. This is the annual 4/20 Mag, where we've always taken a brief aside to spotlight one of the great American pastimes: getting absolutely baked and watching cartoons. Hell yeah. This is as close to patriotism as I can feel these days.
Unicorn Theatre's fire work stages dystopian collision between Charles Schulz and child labor

3 weeks ago | thepitchkc.com | Brock Wilbur

Each dip into The Unicorn's world premieres or mid-workshopped plays has felt like a breath of fresh air, especially in the last few months. Major movie releases have been on an unbreakable tepid streak, most of my favorite TV shows are wrapping up, and every podcast I listen to is about the same thing: just how Very Bad Things Are. In that time, Unicorn has repeatedly delivered unexpected, left-field home runs that I feel, on a personal level, thankful for.
A24's Death of a Unicorn stars Jenny Ortega in a fantasy that's less Lisa Frank, more Jurassic Park

4 weeks ago | thepitchkc.com | Brock Wilbur

There's a very specific kind of film that arises from eras where the MPAA doesn't know what it was doing. Before the invention of the PG-13 designation, there were just G-rated films, PG, and R. Films like Gremlins and Temple of Doom forced the ratings board's hand when parents became upset that there was no clear line in the sand between family-friendly and A Lot Of Dead Bodies.
KCAT delivers dogmatic Doubt staged inside United Church of Christ

1 month ago | thepitchkc.com | Brock Wilbur

In the opening lines of John Patrick Shanley's Doubt, A Parable, a Catholic priest delivers a sermon on the one-year anniversary of J.F.K.'s assassination. Reflecting on the tremendous loss that the entire country was emotionally rocked by, and then revels in the power of such a cataclysm to bring people from all backgrounds together in unity.
Why pelvic floor health matters for everyone

1 month ago | thepitchkc.com | Brock Wilbur

Imagine being a young athlete in overall good health, but you're worried something is very wrong, and you're too embarrassed to seek treatment. For Dr. Amanda Fisher, PT, DPT of Empower Your Pelvis, that's how her story as a pelvic floor therapist began. "I started having pelvic floor issues when I was 21," Fisher says. "I started running a lot of half marathons and started peeing my pants while running and then having pain with intercourse. I had never had kids.
Chicken Pho at Nguyen Pho & Grill

1 month ago | thepitchkc.com | Brock Wilbur

Nestled along the streetcar line in River Market is Nguyen Pho & Grill-a family-owned Vietnamese restaurant. The decor and atmosphere lean toward sparse, but the food speaks for itself. This specific spot was runner-up for Best Pho in the 2024 Pitch Best of KC, but I first recall learning about it in a 2021 Pitch interview with now James Beard Award semifinalist Helen Jo Leach. Talk about strong recommendations.
Clever and heartwarming, MTH's musical Little Women allows Alcott's prose to fly

1 month ago | thepitchkc.com | Brock Wilbur

Music Theater Heritage opened its 2025 season with Little Women: The Musical. Based on Louisa May Alcott's classic novel. the Broadway musical adaptation is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2025, and the show's mid-2000s arrangements make clever choices in bringing the book to stage-mostly in knowing that it can let Alcott's prose soar and allow the other elements to take a backseat.
KC Rep's Broke-ology is a graduate course in chemistry, not finance

2 months ago | thepitchkc.com | Brock Wilbur

Getting a "slice of life" story to work is incredibly difficult, and that's true everywhere, from stage to page to screen. If you're going to forego a plot-driven narrative and instead get a message across via tone and hinting at what the characters are 'talking around', there's a great deal of trust a creative team must have in its players.