KMUW Community Calendar

FloraKansas is our annual spring native and adaptable plant sale. Our customers find plants at affordable prices and enjoy supporting the mission of the Arboretum. Our repeat customers tell us how pleased they are by the quality of our plants – and how well these plants are adapted to Kansas’ challenging climate. Those who live with hard Kansas clay, wet in the spring and dry in the summer, tell us these plants not only survive – they thrive.

Come join us all day on April 25th for Independent Bookstore Day!

Activities include:

Spirit Week Monday through Friday - participate to be entered into a prize raffle!

Monday - Wear Bookish Socks
Tuesday - Wear the Wichita Flag, and join us for the Ribbon Cutting for the cafe at 11am!
Wednesday - Wear Another Bookstore's T-Shirt
Thursday - Wear a Bookish T-Shirt
Friday - Wear Watermark Merch

Saturday:

Spin the Prize Wheel
Local Bookstore Crawl
Cafe Specials
Prize Raffles

Sunday:

Ponder This Poetry Event at 5:30

Tulipfest is Botanica’s biggest, boldest spring celebration—a month-long burst of blooms and beauty. Thousands of tulips paint the Gardens in every shade imaginable, pathways sparkle with seasonal magic, and every turn invites you to stop, smile, and snap a photo. This is spring at its absolute best.

Tulipfest Admission

Nonmembers: $15
Children (3–12): $10
Children under 3: Free

Members:

Monday-Thursday: FREE
Friday-Sunday: $12, Children (3-12) $10

Women’s Fair is Women’s FUN! Get ready to shop ’til you drop with all your favorite finds. Join the ultimate shopping bash, cocktail in hand and excitement in the air. Discover over 200 exhibitors showcasing the hottest trends in fashion, beauty & spa, delicious food & drinks, and stunning home décor. It’s the perfect Girls’ Day Out to indulge, explore, and score must-have goodies galore.

Dungeons and Dragons is a Tabletop Roleplaying game that has captivated the imaginations of players for over 50 years. Whether you've played before or this is your first time, come play!

North America’s largest award-winning interactive true crime murder mystery dinner show invites you into a night of laughter, mystery, and audience-driven intrigue. Enjoy a full dinner while a hilarious crime unfolds around you—but stay alert. The culprit is hiding in plain sight, and before the night is over, you could find yourself named a Prime Suspect.

Now playing at Wichita Marriott in Wichita, KS, this murder mystery dinner experience is unlike traditional dinner theater. Our professional actors are not in costume and are secretly planted among the guests, creating a modern, social, and highly interactive evening. Each ticket includes our signature live murder mystery show, a complete dinner, waitstaff gratuity, and plenty of unexpected twists. Reserve your tickets now and crack the case before it’s too late.

Planning a group celebration or private event in Wichita? We specialize in custom private shows for companies, parties, and organizations of nearly any size—hosted at our public venue or brought directly to your location. Perfect for team outings, corporate events, and unforgettable celebrations.

Some rooms change everything.

On April 25, 2026, the co-learners who heard "there's nothing more we can do" and kept searching will be in the same room. The caregivers who advocated when oncologists said no. The providers who chose the harder path.

This is that room.

Join us for Riordan Clinic's 50th Anniversary Gala: Pearls & Purpose.

📅 April 25, 2026 | 6:00 PM
📍 Mark Arts, Wichita
🎟 Tickets: $75

Between 2023 and 2025, 626 people contacted us and couldn't move forward due to cost. Over the next decade, our goal is to ensure 10,000 new co-learners can begin care.

Your ticket supports patient assistance, research, and infrastructure.

Get tickets → gala.riordanclinic.org

When a bride and groom accidentally book their bachelorette and bachelor parties at the same Chili’s, what starts as a night of drinks and celebration spirals into a wildly chaotic comedy of love, lies, and lunacy. As an overbearing mother, a drunken father, and two scheming “friends” conspire to tear the couple apart (complete with fake cheating scandals, a mysterious hickey, and a jaw-dropping musical retelling of their whirlwind romance) the wedding hangs by a thread. Packed with outrageous characters, rapid-fire jokes, and absurd twists, this high-energy farce asks: can true love survive when everyone around you is completely unhinged?

Then following intermission, enjoy our Love on the Rocks Revue

Live Improv Comedy at Flying Pig Improv! Join us for laughs and completely unscripted theater from our original house troupe, Speakeasy! Witness a show that has never been seen and will never be seen again. We get inspired by your prompts and then we make you laugh with delight. Get in here! Doors open at 6:30 pm. Parking and entrance on North side of building. Uncensored content and language.

In this delightfully punny melodrama, the heroine is tied to the bell tower and the clock is ticking... literally. Unknown to its proprietor, clocksmith Justin Tyme, the old clock shop holds a secret vault loaded with gems and jewels. But, of course, the scoundrel Fohwell Spoyler knows the truth of what’s hidden on the property.

Plotting ways to get his hands on those riches occupies his every thought, but that’s not all he has his eyes set on. He’s also after the clockmaker’s sister, the lovely Isabelle Tyme. Alas, she only has eyes for the upstanding Sheriff Goodlah and refuses Fohwell’s advances.

So what’s a villain to do? He kidnaps her and ties her to the bell tower which will soon strike the hour... and the end of Isabelle Tyme. Meanwhile, Fohwell plans to rob the clock shop while the entire town searches for the fair Isabelle. Will Isabelle be saved before it’s too late? Only time will tell!

At Old Cowtown Museum's Empire House Theater
1865 Museum Blvd; Wichita, KS 67203
7pm Friday and Saturday
2pm Sundays
Doors open 30 minutes before
$15 - Ages 13+
$7 - Ages 5-12
Ages 0-4 - FREE

http://empirehouseplayers.com (-OR- https://empirehouseplayer.ludus.com)

Parking on Fri & Sat is in the WEST lot, 1/4 mile down from the main entrance. (1871 Sim Park Dr) Parking on Sunday in the standard Old Cowtown Museum Visitor Center parking. (1865 Museum Blvd)

Cast of Characters:
Andrew Johnson as FOHWELL D. SPOILER (Villian)
Theoden Arden Vail as JUSTIN TYME (Watch/clock maker)
Jack Phillips as CLEAVER STATISKWO (Mayor)
Matt Neises as STERLING GOODLAH (Hero)
Julie Sanders as LOKWASHUS PHLAPJAW (Busybody)
Todd Reifschneider as GARROL S BHIGMOUWTH (Busybody)
Heather Johnson as REBELINE STATISKWO (Mayor's wife/Suffragette)
Amanda Dahna as ISABELLE TYME (Heroine)
Ashley Grega as FORTUNA PROFISIA (Fortune teller)
Glenn Williams as OLD NICK (Statue that rings the clocktower bell)

Season Tickets available for 25% off to ALL THREE SHOWS this season:
April 24-26 & May 1-3: “The Clock Runs Out for Isabelle Tyme or…Ask Not for Whom the Belle Strolls”
August 21-23 & 28-30: “The Great Ice Cream Scheme or…Robin Baskins to the Rescue”
November 6-8 & 13-15: “The Christmas Princess”

A thrilling rock opera based on the last week of Jesus’ life, Jesus Christ Superstar has wowed audiences for over 50 years. The musical is set against the backdrop of an extraordinary and universally known series of events but seen, unusually, through the eyes of Judas Iscariot.

Loosely based on the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, Superstar follows the last week of Jesus Christ’s life. The story, told entirely through song, explores the personal relationships and struggles between Jesus, Judas, Mary Magdalene, his disciples, his followers and the Roman Empire.

There's trouble in River City when a fast-talking salesman gets his heart stolen by the town librarian. Meredith Willson's six-time, Tony Award-winning musical comedy The Music Man follows fast-talking traveling salesman, Harold Hill, as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys' band that he vows to organize – this, despite the fact that he doesn't know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian, the librarian, who transforms him into a respectable citizen by curtain's fall. Featuring songs such as "Seventy-Six Trombones," "Trouble," "'Til There Was You," "Pickalittle" and “Gary, Indiana," The Music Man is a family-friendly story to be shared with every generation.

Time Stands Still is a play written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Donald Margulies is a riveting, deeply human drama set in a Brooklyn apartment, where photojournalist Sarah and her partner James, a foreign correspondent, attempt to heal and recalibrate after returning from the front lines of war. As they settle back into domestic life, their ideals, ambitions, and love for one another are quietly and powerfully tested. Margulies crafts a
nuanced story about bearing witness to global suffering and the personal cost of stepping away.
With sharp dialogue and emotional precision, Time Stands Still invites us to confront the tension
between comfort and conscience, intimacy and independence, and what we owe to the world
versus what we owe to ourselves.

“Set within the high‑stakes worlds of journalism and humanitarian work, this production exposes
how ambition can fuel purpose while fracturing relationships and ethical boundaries along the way.
As characters press forward, the play asks who catches the fallout of that ambition - and what the
human capacity for resilience truly costs those left in its wake.”
Sheldon Mba, Director

Cheyla Clawson, Director of the School of Performing Arts, Wichita State University
316-978-3368
Cheyla.clawson@wichita.edu

ICT Sketch Comedy is making its debut with a bold, original sketch comedy show you won’t want to miss. Featuring a powerhouse cast—Ryan Schafer, Alex Taylor, Paige Lauer, Mike Whalen, Keysa McMillan, Jamie Krueger, and Abi Herrera—this first show from ICT Sketch Comedy promises a fresh, high-energy night of laughs. Produced in partnership with Flying Pig Improv in Wichita, Kansas, the show is built in the tradition of The Second City, blending sharp writing with fearless performances. Expect comedy that’s weird, smart, locally rooted, and unapologetically political.

Catch our first show Friday, April 24th and Saturday, April 25th at 9 PM—come join us for a night of sketch comedy laughs!

Doors open at 8:45 pm. Parking and entrance on North side of building.

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