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“Fischli & Weiss: The Way Things Go,” August 9 through February 8

With Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss known for their witty explorations of human nature, the duo's acclaimed 1987 video The Way Things Go will be screened in the Figge Art Museum's Lewis Gallery from August 9 through February 8, this playful spectacle ...
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“Cats,” August 14

Presented in conjunction with the venue's current exhibition of the same title (with an added exclamation point), director Tom Hooper's arguably legendary screen version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats enjoys an August 14 screening at Davenport's Figge Art Museum, with kitty costumes encouraged for ...
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“The Play That Goes Wrong,” August 8 through 17

With The Daily Beast hailing the show as "a two-hour explosion of physical comedy, malapropisms, and knockabout satire," the Tony-winning slapstick farce The Play That Goes Wrong enjoys an August 8 through 17 run at Moline's Spotlight Theatre, this crowd favorite sure to demonstrate ...
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Quad City Music Guild’s “Gypsy,” August 8 through 17

Regarded by many, including New York Times critic Ben Brantley, as potentially the greatest of all American musicals, the legendary, Tony-winning Gypsy enjoys an August 8 through 17 Quad City Music Guild staging at Moline's Prospect Payk Auditorium, the Times' Frank Rich adding that ...
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“Ordinary Days,” August 8 through 17

A lauded musical in which, according to The Sound on Stage, "the songs hit every band of the emotional spectrum," composer Adam Gwon's Ordinary Days enjoys its Quad Cities debut at Moline's Black Box Theatre from August 8 through 17, StageLeft.nyc adding that the ...
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“Marjorie Prime,” August 14 through 24

Hailed by The New Yorker as "clever in conceit, alive with humor, surprising in its turns, and terribly haunting by the time the lights go out," playwright Jordan Harrison's science-fiction tale Marjorie Prime makes its debut at Geneseo's Richmond Hill Barn Theatre. Its August ...
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Barely Stretching: “The Fantastic Four: First Steps,” “The Home,” and “House on Eden”

By the finale, nearly everything of early interest has succumbed to the same ol' visually indistinct, destruction-of-the-universe meaninglessness, with the added hangup of the action being almost insultingly stupid.
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Karina Villa Jockeyed for a Spot on the Cook County Slate, but Her Progressive Bona Fides Croked Her

According to the 2020 Census, Cook County is 40-percent white, 26-percent Latino, 22-percent Black, and 8-percent Asian. Chicago is 21 percent of the state’s population. But the statewide ticket recently endorsed by the Cook County Democratic Party is overwhelmingly made up of white Chicagoans (JB Pritzker, Alexi Giannoulias, Mike Frerichs, ...
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Peace! What Is It Good For?: Genesius Guild’s Peace, at Lincoln Park through August 3

A lot of the action follows Aristophanes' original text. The rest is decidedly in the style of Calvin Vo and Tee Green.
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Dance Like Everyone’s Watching: Countryside Community Theatre’s “Hairspray,” at North Scott High School through August 3

Seeing and hearing Countryside Community Theatre's production of Hairspray has nearly stolen my words from me.
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Air Supply, August 1

The trademark tenor of Russell Hitchcock's soaring voice and Graham Russell's simple yet majestic songs created a unique sound that would forever be known as Air Supply, and on August 1, the band's co-founders will bring their "50th-Anniversary Celebration Tour" to Bettendorf's Quad-Cities Waterfront ...
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Third Eye Blind, August 1

Winners of six California Music Awards and a Billboard Music Award, their chart-topping “Semi-Charmed Life” being named Best Modern Rock Track, Third Eye Blind headlines the August 1 grandstand concert in this year's Mississippi Valley Fair, the alternative rockers' other hit singles including such ...
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