22 Oct 2024

“Midsummer” in Fall: Ballet Quad Cities to Dance in the Quad City Symphony Orchestra's "Masterworks II: Midsummer Night's Dream,” November 2 and 3

By Jonathan Turner

Having kicked off its 110th-season Masterworks series on October 5 and 6 (honoring the 200th anniversary of Anton Bruckner’s birth with his Symphony No. 7), the Quad City Symphony Orchestra has a special program in November.

18 Oct 2024

Building Bridges: New Concert Series to Start at The Deanery on October 29

By Jonathan Turner

The Deanery School of Music is entering a new movement in its score, with a new concert series and new director.

07 Oct 2024

Ghosts at Hauberg Estate: “Spirits and Bites," October 26

By Jonathan Turner

Peg Rounds is friends with the ghosts of John Hauberg and Susanne Denkmann Hauberg.

03 Oct 2024

Quad City Arts Visiting Artist Series Starts Its 51st Season

By Jonathan Turner

Last February, in the 50th-anniversary season of Quad City Arts’ Visiting Artist Series, hip-hop dancing and beatboxing illustrated how elusive world peace may be possible.

02 Oct 2024

Davenport Junior Theatre Seeks New Leader and Location

By Jonathan Turner

The city of Davenport needs a new performing arts supervisor and a new location for Davenport Junior Theatre, fast.

01 Oct 2024

Nova Singers Tackles Big Masterworks in Davenport and Galesburg, October 12 and 13

By Jonathan Turner

It's easy to sing the praises of Nova Singers, a professional choir that has presented awe-inspiring, heartfelt concerts in the region since 1986.

21 Sep 2024

Davenport Junior Theatre Won’t Be Moving to NorthPark Mall

By Jonathan Turner

Davenport Junior Theatre, the nation’s second oldest children’s theatre, is abandoning plans to move its operations to the former Younkers store at NorthPark Mall in Davenport. While its previously announced timeline expected an interim lease to be signed and construction to begin this fall, with a move-in date in June of 2025, the site selection for an interim space is back to square one.

06 Sep 2024

Quad Cities Artist Uses Her Art to Cope, to Feel and Heal: Works by Miranda Skye Vavrosky at Art on the Bend through September 30

By Jonathan Turner

Miranda Skye Vavrosky knows art can help save lives, because it saved hers.

03 Sep 2024

"Riot" Gear: A Shakespeare Play Inspires Violence, and Comedy, in World Premiere "An All-American Riot," at the Black Box Theatre September 19 through 28

By Jonathan Turner

Alexander Richardson’s new play is set in the 1840s, but it feels painfully contemporary.

29 Aug 2024

New “Carnegie Hall” Launches Moline Series

By Jonathan Turner

There’s a new Carnegie Hall in downtown Moline.

Just 12 years younger than the world-famous New York City venue, Sound Conservatory has renovated a section of the former Carnegie library building (erected in 1903) into a beautiful, elegant performance space.

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