Lauded by the San Diego Reader for delivering “a heightened sense of reality, folk tales, and folk dances transmogrified into sinuous spectacle,” the internationally esteemed dance troupe Russian Ballet Theatre brings its production of Swan Lake to Davenport's Adler Theatre on March 1, this innovative presentation of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's classic ballet described by the Times-Advocate as “probably as good as it gets.”

Returning to live performances in the University of Iowa's Space/Place Theatre for the first time in two years, UI Dance Company delivers four presentations of its annual Home Concert February 23 through 26, evenings that promise to be packed with curiosity, humor, and empathy in a diverse exploration of the human experience through movement and metaphor.

A lauded selection in the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival, 2021's Reflection: A Walk with Water serves as the latest presentation in River Action's QC Environmental Film Series, its February 20 premiere at Davenport's Figge Art Museum sure to demonstrate why Framework said that the work “should be screened through every Internet portal, at every bus stop, on every subway line, and in every government office, school, university, and bar."

Winner of seven 1977 Tony Awards and one of the 25 longest-running musicals in Broadway history, the iconic comic-strip adaptation Annie will be brought to life – in abbreviated form – in Davenport Junior Theatre's February 12 through 20 run of Annie Jr., its iconic score by Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse, and Martin Charnin boasting such timeless tunes as "It's the Hard-Knock Life," "Easy Street," "Maybe," and the unforgettable "Tomorrow."