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by Heidi Armbruster
June/July, 2026
Spencer Theatre at the James C. Olsen Performing Arts Center at UMKC

Directed by KCAT Ensemble Member Matt Schwader
Featuring KCAT Ensemble Members Hillary Clemens and Logan Black and more to be announced!

An Agatha Christie theatre mystery, revolving around Christie herself! From Heidi Armbruster, Mrs. Christie takes a look at Agatha’s mysterious eleven-day disappearance in 1926, and 100 years later, a devoted superfan, Lucy, who may be the one to finally crack the case. In parallel stories that weave the past with the present, both Lucy and Agatha go on journeys of self-discovery, all with an added thrill of a good old-fashioned mystery. “Mrs. Christie is a captivating, thought-provoking, humorous, dark, and tear-inducing experience.” (Los Altos Town Crier)

Making its regional debut at Kansas City Actors Theatre in 2026, this play is a unique comedy-drama that not only takes a look at the prolific woman behind the mysteries, but modern fan culture, true crime obsession, and the human need to find oneself. “For budding detectives and soul searchers… whet your inner Hercule Poirot.” (San Francisco Chronicle)

by Lynn Nottage
August, 2026
City Stage in Union Station

Directed by Teresa Leggard
Featuring KCAT Ensemble Member Chioma Anyanwu and more to be announced!

“A justly acclaimed, beautifully written, and intensely personal play…” (Chicago Tribune) from two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage comes the soon-to-be classic, Intimate Apparel. Set in 1905 New York, Esther works as a seamstress sewing exquisite lingerie for an array of clients, but her skill with needle and thread has led to an absence of a personal life. As Esther explores a forbidden romance with an Orthodox Jewish fabric vendor and a long-distance courtship with a worker building the Panama Canal, she also gets exclusive access into the private lives of her clients. Nottage explores a distinct time period in New York and “honors a legacy of a woman, and those like her, whom history nearly forgot.” (Broadstreet Reviews)

A distinctive meditation on desire, filled with delicate and eloquent writing from one of the most award-winning and prolific playwrights of the 21^st century Lynn Nottage offers “…a testament to the power of hope and perseverance in the face of adversity.” (Talkin’ Broadway)

by Jonathan Spector
September, 2026
City Stage in Union Station

Directed by KCAT Ensemble Member Darren Sextro
Featuring KCAT Ensemble Members Teisha Bankston, Cinnamon Schultz, and John Rensenhouse, and more to be announced!

Delightfully prescient and pointedly funny, Jonathan Spector’s 2025 Tony Award-winning Eureka Day comes to the City Stage in September! In this “…sharp satire of well-meaning but misguided liberalism” (New York Theatre Guide) a mumps outbreak has put the Board of Directors of the Eureka Day School on their backfoot, forced to reexamine their vaccination policy. Until now they have only made decisions through consensus, not majority, but now they must decide: is it possible to make a decision about vaccinations that will please everyone? “Eureka Day was already timely when it made its local debut off-Broadway in 2019. It is even more so now.” (Time Out New York)

Jonathan Spector’s writing is some of the finest satire for the stage in a long time, and Eureka Day will have audiences crying with laughter in equal measure with questioning their own biases. “With the combination of wicked banter and ultimate good will that Eureka Day has to offer, you’d be well-advised to ‘take the jab.'” (Variety)

by George Bernard Shaw
Adapted by KCAT Ensemble Member Jerry Mañan
February/March, 2027
The Frantz Family Black Box Theatre at The Goppert Performing Arts Center at Avila University

Directed by KCAT Ensemble Member John Rensenhouse
Featuring KCAT Ensemble Member Jan Rogge, and more to be announced!

George Bernard Shaw makes his triumphant return to the Kansas City stage in KCAT’s updated version of Arms and the Man. In this brand-new adaptation from KCAT Ensemble Member Jerry Mañan, George Bernard Shaw’s enduring comedy-drama takes a satirical look at the absurdities of war as Captain Bluntschli attempts to flee the Serbo-Bulgarian war by hiding in the boudoir of the young, engaged-to-be-wed Raina. What results is a series of events that turns Raina’s household, engagement, and life upside down. “Arms and the Man is a prime example of Shaw’s knack for sneaking subversive ideas—in this case, a dismantling of war worship—into a romantic romp.” (Lighting & Sound America)

Perhaps only rivaled by Shakespeare when speaking of the preeminent voices of English-language theatre, George Bernard Shaw masterfully weaves wit, satire, social criticism, and more in a delightful romp in Bulgaria. “Arms and the Man is clever without ever feeling stuffy, and farcical without tipping into chaos. It reminds us that the ‘noble’ ideals of romance and war are often just theatre with better costumes.” (Broadway World)