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“Honk Jr.!”, October 11 through 19

A special one-act version of the hilarious fairytale musical that won Great Britain's 2000 Olivier Award for Best Musical – and triumphed over such contenders as Mamma Mia! and The Lion King – the family entertainment Honk! Jr. will be staged by the young ...
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In Illinois, All Sides Are All “Kind of, You Know, It’s Like, What Are We Doing?” About an Agreed Bill

The announcement last week that the Illinois AFL-CIO was withdrawing from the “agreed-bill process” at least forty years after its inception took almost everyone by surprise, but nobody was really shocked. For years, whenever the group engaged in carefully-constructed negotiations with business interests on workers’ ...
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Pardon Me, Boy – Is This the Transylvania Sensation?: “Young Frankenstein,” at the Spotlight Theatre through October 12

Talented folks at the Spotlight Theatre, led by director Aaron Baker-Loo and music director Laura Hammes, are giving Young Franknstein's seasonally apropos, demanding script an electrifyingly exuberant treatment.
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Dressed to Kill: “The Woman In Black,” at the Richmond Hill Barn Theatre through October 12

As I drove through the waning dusk of a scorching hot fall evening, I wondered what was in store with the Richmond Hill Barn Theatre’s production of The Woman in Black, directed and designed by Dana Skiles. Turns out, a frighteningly good time. With ...
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Parody Gold II: “Several States” Lyrics Inspired by Dylan’s “Seven Days”

These work products are considered a parody inspired by the original songs. And, given Lydia Electrum's focus on restoring the republic via sound money, namely using gold and silver, we have coined (pun intended) these series of songs "Parody Gold."
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Eerie Iowa: The Hawkeye State’s Darker Side

Overhead, Iowa's landscape is a quilt of green patches of cornfields stitched together by highways that connect its 934 cities. It’s a picturesque Grant Wood painting of rural America. But from the ground, these fields feel very different.
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Lord of the Ring: “The Smashing Machine,” “Anemone,” and “Good Boy”

In recent years, it was starting to look as though Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was no longer capable of genuine screen rapport with anyone. Turns out he very much is. Maybe he just needed a true kindred spirit to share some with.
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A Lincolnesque Time, Perhaps? An Interview with Professor David Clements

While most voters have turned a blind eye to election irregularities that revealed themselves both in 2020 and 2024, there are still courageous, thoughtful, and measured Americans who continue to research and compile irrefutable hard evidence with the expectation that one day, the culprits ...
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Quad Cities Haunt Actors Ready to Scare Up a Good, Creepy Time

Touring the haunted halls and dark crevices of Skellington Manor is scary enough, with its depraved permanent displays and figures. But add the colorful, creepy live performers during the haunted-house season of October 3 through November 2, and the fear factor is super-charged.
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Are You Ready to Meet Your Shadow?: Celebrate October with Void Church and Other Raccoon Motel Concert Events

October is Void Church season. The Quad Cities collective books shows in all seasons. But when the shadows fall and the light fades, when the veil draws thin and the wind whispers dark and suggestive secrets on the chilling air, Void Church falls into ...
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“Junie B. Jones: The Musical,” October 10 through 12

Praised by DC Theater Arts as "a genuine joy to watch," the family entertainment Junie B. Jones: The Musical enjoys an October 10 through 12 run at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts, the DC Theater Arts adding that the characters in this ...
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Thirty Shows Later, and Still “Working”: Muscatine’s New Era Dinner Theater Presents Its Latest Musical, October 10 through 12

Jenni Colbert, a 2002 Davenport Central alum, was born to play her part in the new October 10 through 12 production by Muscatine's New Era Dinner Theater.
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