Hailed by The Guardian as "an incredibly fun, energetic performance" that "remixes some of your favorite moments from the show with a new and touching story," the stage version of a children's-TV sensation hits Davenport's Adler Theatre on August 11 and 12 in Bluey's Big Play, a blend of live actors and puppetry that, The Guardian continued, "doesn’t shy away from sharing honest truths while celebrating imaginative play."

A three-time Tony Award nominee that the New York Times said "sings sincerely and with a rough-edged humor of the dusty margins of American life," Hands on a Hardbody makes its area debut with an August 7 through 16 run at Mt. Carroll's Timber Lake Playhouse, the high-energy show with a book by Pulitzer Prize and Tony winner Doug Wright also hailed by New York Magazine as "musical theatre heaven."

With the artists blending their chart-topping, pop-rock talents for the August 8 grandstand show at the Mississippi Valley Fair, the fair's Saturday night will boast performances by Goo Goo Dolls, whose "Iris" spent 11 consecutive months on the Billboard Hot 100, and Neon Trees, whose first single "Animal" climbed to number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached number one on the Alternative Songs chart.

Touring in support of their most recent album Distroid that, according to Rock the Body Electric, "touches on everything from prog to country to reggae as the band stretches out and flows," the genre-bending musicians of Dogs in a Pile headline an August 12 concert at Davenport's Redstone Room at Common Chord, the group's output also hailed by Go-Set.net as "fun and jovial, hot and sexy, funky and weird, contemplative and dreamy."