Boasting the talents of Emmy Award-winning composer Randy Rogel on piano and the vocal talents of Emmy winner Rob Paulsen (famed for voicing Yakko and Pinky on Animaniacs and Raphael on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), the touring sensation Animaniacs in Concert lands at Galesburg's Orpheum Theatre on April 12, the show delivering a zany, animany, totally insanely time as Rogel and Paulsen perform popular songs from the beloved cartoon series backed by the original projected animation.

Featuring paintings both from the museum's collection and on loan, the Figge Art Museum's current exhibition Marvin Cone: Painter celebrates this exceptional artist and teacher who pursued artmaking for more than 50 years, and in an April 17 Curator Talk, the Davenport venue's senior co-curator Vanessa Sage will speak about the artist, his long career, and the evolution of his style.

With Kirkus calling her 2025 novel All the Water in the World "gripping, beautifully descriptive, and likely to stay with you," its author Eiren Caffall will be the featured guest in the Archway Reading and Lecture Series at the University of Dubuque, her April 14 reading and subsequent Q&A session taking place in the campus' Multicultural Student Center at the Peter and Susan Smith Welcome Center.

Appearing locally in his “Rough and Rowdy Ways” World Wide Tour, a genuine legend takes the stage at Davenport's Adler Theatre in its April 8 hosting of the one and only Bob Dylan, the iconic musician and Nobel Prize winner recently chronicled in the Oscar-nominated bio-musical smash A Complete Unknown.