With the series' first episode widely regarded as one of the greatest two-hour works in television history, the international pilot for David Lynch's iconic Twin Peaks enjoys a screening at Roxk Island venue Rozz-Tox on February 28, the spoiler-filled overseas version featuring 20 additional minutes not broadcast in the states until it was eventually released on VHS and laser disc.

A Tony Award winner hailed by Variety magazine as “elegant, acerbic, and entertainingly fueled on pure bile,” Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage opens the 2026 season at Moline's Playcrafters Barn Theatre, the comedy's February 27 through March 8 run treating audiences to a Broadway hit that, according to the New York Times, “delivers the cathartic release of watching other people's marriages go boom."

The recipient of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama that, according to Intermission magazine, "cuts to the heart with a simply constructed story, understated humor, and dialogue unburdened by purple prose," playwright Eboni Booth's Primary Trust makes its Iowa City debut at Riverside Theatre February 27 through March 15, the work also hailed by The Daily Beast as "beautifully written" and "a 95-minute, intermissionless, buffed-to-gleaming jewel.”

With Art Garfunkel himself giving the production five stars and quoted as saying “What a great show,” the touring sensation The Simon & Garfunkel Story comes to Davenport's Adler Theatre on February 25, The Stage adding that the multi-media musical is "authentic and exciting," and West End Wilma labeling it "as good as perfection."

Sharing his musical gifts in a pair of 45-minute performances plus a full-length concert evening at Davenport's TMBC Lincoln Resource Center, acclaimed pianist Barron Ryan returns to the area for Quad City Arts' 2025-26 Visiting Artists Series, this lauded musical sensation hailed by Kensington Concert Series director Gary Payne for the "emotive quality of his playing," and the musician recognized as one of Smithsonian magazine's 10 “Innovators to Watch."

Touring in support of their forthcoming album Change of Plans set for release on May 15, the alternative-country musicians of 49 Winchester headline a February 17 concert event at Davenport's Capitol Theatre, the group dedicated to channel the heart, humor, and hard-earned wisdom of Appalachia into every one of their recordings.

Touring in support of their forthcoming album The Long Surrender, the group's tenth full-length recording set for release on March 27, the alternative, Americana, and Christian rockers of NEEDTOBREATHE headline a February 26 concert event at Davenport's Capitol Theatre, accolades for the popular, Grammy-nominated act including a Billboard Music Award nomination for Rivers in the Wasteland and no fewer than 15 wins at the GMA Dove Awards.

Performing in support of his most recent album Thank You Brother Bill: A Tribute to Bill Withers, lauded blues and soul artist Kevin Burt performs a special February 25 concert sponsored by the Mississippi Valley Blues Society, the event taking place at Rock Island's Hauberg Civic Center, and Burt's new album praised by Rock & Blues Muse as a work that “hits the highest marks on all counts – phrasing, soulful delivery, musical accompaniment, and genuine conviction.”

Performing, in its entirety, an album that was selected for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," the touring artists of The Black Jacket Symphony brings their stage rendition of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon to Davenport's Capitol Theatre on February 20, this legendary rock recording also inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.

Lauded by WIRE as a tribute band that "has it all: the songs, the performances, the visuals, and the energy," the touring artists of In the Flesh: Echoes of Pink Floyd headline a February 20 concert at East Moline venue The Rust Belt, the seven-piece outfit delivering a mind-blowing laser show, costuming, and projections while performing from classics such as Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall.

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