Hailed by Newsday as “a lusciously written, strangely poignant, dizzyingly modern spin on life,” and by Time Out New York as “utterly spellbinding,” playwright Will Eno's Middletown enjoys a November 30 through December 3 run in Scott Community College's Black Box Theatre, this expansive series of vignettes also lauded by the New York Times as a “delicate, moving, piercing, tart, funny, gorgeous” play that “glimmers from start to finish.”

Director/choreographer Ashley Becher, her performers, and her crew have whipped up one merry and delicious fudging indulgence. You don't need to know the movie to love this show.

I knew next to nothing about [title of show] before attending Friday’s opening-night performance at St. Ambrose University. I was aware of it in the sense that I knew it was a musical, and I’ve had people tell me I would love it, given that I do so (too?) much theatre. Yet after finally seeing the show for myself, I’d say I left the theatre more entertained than enamored.

A deliciously macabre musical masterpiece that has won 12 Tony Awards between its 1979 Broadway debut and numerous revivals, composer Stephen Sondheim's and Hugh Wheeler's bloody-good Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street closes Quad City Music Guild's 2023 season, its November 10 through 19 run sure to demonstrate why the show is widely considered one of the finest American musicals of the last 50 years.