Described by the Chicago Tribune as “sincere, rich, heartfelt, and an ideal gift for anybody who loves these numbers and the women who made them linger,” the bio-musical Always … Patsy Cline enjoys a June 3 through 13 run as the first new Clinton Area Showboat Theatre production since 2019 – a loving salute to the beloved performer and her collection of iconic hits that includes “Crazy,” “I Fall to Pieces,” Back in Baby's Arms,” “Walkin' After Midnight,” and “Sweet Dreams.”

A native of Zion, Illinois, whose touring act was deemed “Unbelievable!” by USA Today, master illusionist Bill Blagg brings his his astonishing and hilarious prestidigitation to Davenport's Adler Theatre in The Magic of Bill Blagg Live!, delighting crowds with the sleight-of-hand and audience rapport that led the Chicago Tribune to call the show “a side-splitting spectacular.”

With NoDepression.com raving about her “significant vocal and guitar talents” and musical style that's “dynamic yet haunting,” Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Amythyst Kiah headlines the latest event in the 2021 Adler Theatre Foundation Series, a special evening devoted to the artist's solo repertoire and her contributions as part of the all-women-of-color super-group Our Native Daughters.

Lauded by the New York Times as “an upsetting and believable study of the disruptive power of unleashed desire,” Free Fall serves as the latest presentation in the Kinogarten series of German works screened on the first Friday of every month, with Rock Island's Rozz-Tox and Davenport's German American Heritage Center, on June 4, co-hosting this award-winning tale that Front Row Reviews called “one of the sexiest and most enthralling gay dramas of all time.”

Presented by Kevin Braafladt, the Army Sustainment Command Deputy Historian at the Rock Island Arsenal, the virtual program World War I History: Chemical Warfare will be hosted by the Rock Island Public Library on June 9, with viewers invited to take another look at the Great War's military history and the terrible results that chemical warfare had on individuals and societies throughout the world.

Staging its first full Broadway musical in more than a year, Moline's Spotlight Theatre will house a can't-miss crowd-pleaser from June 4 through 13 in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, the Tony Award-winning reunion for Charles M. Schulz's beloved Peanuts characters that the New York Times called “a miracle,” adding that “almost everything works, because almost everything is effortless.”

Returning to the presentation of live theatre for the first time since March of 2020, Moline's Playcrafters Barn Theatre is proud to host the world premiere of a new drama in the organization's popular Barn Owl Series: Princeton's Rage, which, during its June 4 through 13 run, will address the lingering damage of sexual assault through a script by local playwright and area performer Don Faust.

Energetic, multi-hued works by an Arizona-based artist with significant ties to the Quad Cities will be on display in the next exhibition at the Beréskin Gallery & Art Academy, with the Bettendorf venue, through July 8, housing Tim Schiffer: Paintings within Paintings, a collection of arresting pieces created by the former executive director of Davenport's Figge Art Museum.

Thrilling hits from a career boasting 13 studio albums, six live albums, 61 singles, and 23 Grammy Award nominations will be heard on May 29 when Mt. Carroll's Timber Lake Playhouse hosts the Milwaukee-based talents of 52nd Street: The Music of Billy Joel, an eight-piece band whose outdoor concert will be chock full of classics originated by one of the best-selling and most lauded music artists of all time.

The culmination of an Illinois State University Honors Program project six months in the making, the German American Heritage Center's virtual presentation The Dirndl: Reclaiming German Dress will, on May 30, find Hannah Hoge discussing heritage, culture, and ancestry through study of traditional German dress, with specific insight into the origins of this clothing, its use in Nazi propaganda, and how the symbol of the dirndl can be reclaimed to express German pride.

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