31 May 2022

Miss Iowa and Miss Iowa's Outstanding Teen Competitions, June 10 and 11

By Reader Staff

On June 10 and 11, 30 talented and intelligent young women from across the state will compete for top honors in the preliminaries and finals for the Miss Iowa and Miss Iowa's Outstanding Teen Competitions, with guests at Davenport's Adler Theatre invited to share the excitement as this year's candidates compete in the categories of Talent, Red Carpet, On-Stage Interview/Social Impact Pitch, and Lifestyle & Fitness.

31 May 2022

Dan Cummins, June 10

By Reader Staff

A terrifically popular standup, podcast host, and contestant on Last Comic Standing, comedian Dan Cummins brings his acclaimed national tour to Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center on June 10, the artist touring in support of two major 2020 achievements: his third one-hour special Dan Cummins: Get Outta Here, and his eighth comedy album Live in Denver.

31 May 2022

Quad City Music Guild's “Something Rotten!”, June 10 through 19

By Reader Staff

With Time Out NY describing the entertainment as “Broadway's funniest, splashiest, slap-happiest musical comedy in at least 400 years,” Quad City Music Guild opens its three-show summer season in Moline with the Prospect Park Auditorium's June 10 through 19 run of Something Rotten!, the zany, Tony-winning farce that the Hollywood Reporter called “a big, brash, meta-musical studiously fashioned in the mold of Monty Python's Spamalot.”

31 May 2022

“Madagascar: A Musical Adventure,” June 9 through July 2

By Reader Staff

One of the millennium's biggest animated-film hits enjoys a raucous, colorful, and tuneful stage presentation when Rock Island's Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse presents the venue return of Madagascar: A Musical Adventure, a delightful family treat, running June 9 through July 2, reuniting audiences with Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe, Gloria the hip-hip-Hippo, and all of their other Dreamworks favorites.

31 May 2022

“Sister Act,” June 2 through 12

By Reader Staff

Nominated for five 2011 Tony Awards including Best Musical, and based on the beloved film comedy starring Whoopi Goldberg, the tuneful and riotous Sister Act opens the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre's summer season, the show's June 2 through 12 run demonstrating why the Associated Press deemed it “frothy, giggly, and yet often poignant,” as well as “a musical that hits all the right spots, achieving something close to Broadway grace.”

31 May 2022

“Escape to Margaritaville,” June 2 through 12

By Reader Staff

With its delightful assemblage of songs including “Fins,” “Volcano,” “Cheeseburger in Paradise,” and the iconic "Margaritaville," the Jimmy Buffett celebration Escape to Margaritaville opens the 2022 season at Mt. Carroll's Timber Lake Playhouse, this uplifting musical stage treat lauded by the Hollywood Reporter as "the theatrical equivalent of sipping on a frozen drink while lying on a beach chair in the blazing sun."

31 May 2022

Boyz II Men, June 11

By Reader Staff

Revered for such chart-topping singles as “End of the Road,” “4 Seasons of Loneliness,” and the iconic “I'll Make Love to You,” the Grammy-winning, multi-platinum-selling R&B artists of Boyz II Men bring their national tour to Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center on June 11, their professional accolades also including nine American Music Awards, nine Soul Train Awards, three Billboard Awards, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

24 May 2022

“The Sanctuary of the Sun: Seasons & Time,” through September 11

By Reader Staff

With the exhibit's title taken from Psalm 19 and its sacred celebration of the sun and the life that flourishes under its radiant light, painter William Havlicek's The Sanctuary of the Sun: Seasons & Time will be on display at the historic house of the Muscatine Art Center through September 11, its series selections described by the artist as "a poetic eulogy to Iowa’s seasonal changes, ochre harvests, russet woods, and silent streams.”

24 May 2022

Cut Worms and David Ramirez, June 7 and 8

By Reader Staff

A pair of critically acclaimed singer/songwriters make a pair of successive visits to Davenport's Raccoon Motel on June 7 and 8, with Tuesday evening boasting the talents of New York's garage-rock and cowboy-pop sensation Cut Worms, and Wednesday night showcasing the gifts of the popular Texas-based Americana and pop-rock musician David Ramirez.

24 May 2022

Been There Done That, June 4

By Reader Staff

Performing in support of their EP Pretty Lies, a quartet of gifted young area musicians headline a June 4 concert event at the Redstone Room, with the Davenport venue treating patrons to the rock and power-pop talents of an ensemble that bills itself as the Quad Cities' only all-female rock band: Been There Done That.

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