Winner of five Tony Awards and one of the most memorable, iconic, and popular musicals of the last several decades, legendary composer Stephen Sondheim's Assassins enjoys a March 21 through 23 staging at the University of Dubuque's Heritage Center, a production performed by students in the university's Department of Fine and Performing Arts. A twisty, tuneful tale of famed and obscure killers (and would-be killers), the show was lauded by the New York Times for its “astonishing score” in which “sly distortions of familiar musical tropes approximate the skewed ways in which these characters hear everyday melodies.”

Presented as part of the Davenport venue's popular “Kaffee und Kuchen” series, the German American Center's March 23 program Singing Wheels: August Fruehauf & the History of the Fruehauf Trailer Company will find August's granddaughter Ruth Fruehauf celebrating the exhibit opening of Immigrant Innovators: The Fruehauf Trailer Company, August's invention of the truck trailer having played a key role in transforming transportation in the 20th century.

On March 23, fans of the BBC and Netflix sensation The Great British Baking Show are invited to Join UK travel/relocation consultant and former UK resident Claire Evans at Moline's Butterworth Center for a delightful culinary tour of the country. Evans' in-person presentation The Great British Baking Tour will offer insight on making a proper cup of tea, as well as regional specialties, their origins, and the particular parts of the UK they hail from. She’ll also translate the trickiest parts of British recipes for Americans, so you can try them in your own kitchen.

Featured on season eight of America’s Got Talent, the exquisite talents of Catapult Dance deliver the premiere performance of their 2025 tour at Galesburg's Orpheum Theatre on March 15, the artists employing interpretive dance and amazing acrobatics to create visual stories for the whole family all through expressive light and shadow.