Based on the wildly popular, award-winning children's television show that has been enchanting youths since 2004, the touring sensation Peppa Pig Live! Peppa Pig's Adventure comes to Moline's Vibrant Arena at the MARK on July 20, this stage musical bringing to life all the memorable characters and warm humor evident in the series that has been broadcast in more than 180 countries worldwide.

Lauded by the New York Daily News as "fresh and original" with "bouncy, big-hearted songs," the acclaimed stage version of a film-comedy smash enjoys a July 20 through 30 debut at Mt. Carroll's Timber Lake Playhouse, with 9 to 5: The Musical deemed "a triumph" by The Guardian, which added, "It seemed improbable, given the cult status of the movie, but the stage show has met it and raised it, rather than being its pale imitation."

A one-act version of the beloved family musical that received five 2013 Tony Awards, Matilda Jr. enjoys a one-weekend, four-performance run at Mt. Carroll's Timber Lake Playhouse, its July 14 through 16 engagement treating audiences to a delightful entertainment for all ages whose original Matilda: The Musical was praised by the New York Times as “an exhilarating tale of empowerment” told with “astonishing slyness and grace.”

An acclaimed New York City comedian lauded for her darkly hilarious material based on personal, often satirical stories, current Saturday Night Live writer Rosebud Baker brings her national standup tour to Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Rhythm Room on July 16, with Rolling Stone raving that her humor "ranges from merciless self-excavation to slashing social satire graced by intelligence and nuance."

Delivered as part of the Davenport Public Library's virtual 3rd Thursday at Hoover's Presidential Library & Museum programming, the July 20 "best of" webinar The Lafayette Escadrille tells the heroic tale of how 38 Americans volunteered to fly, and pay the ultimate price, in the First World War – fighting in the skies to aid France long before our country officially entered the war.

With free admission and programs for the venue's Thursdays at the Figge sponsored by Chris and Mary Rayburn, Davenport's Figge Art Museum will host the special July 20 event The Katz Gallery: Celebrate the Exhibitions of Ansel Adams & Johnny Brian, an arresting exploration into the current exhibits Ansel Adams, the Sierra Club, & the Making of a Landscape Icon and Iowa Night Skies, featuring special guest and the latter exhibit's photographer Johnny Brian of Iowa City.

With their national “Dark Horizon Tour” landing in East Moline on July 17, the Grammy winning alternative-metal musicians of In This Moment and the Billboard hard-rock sensations of Motionless in White will take over the Rust Belt stage in a co-headlining concert, the former performing tracks from a seven-album repertoire that includes 2020's Mother, and the latter delivering hits from a six-album discography ranging from 2010's Creatures to last year's Scoring the End of the World.

A 2020 recipient of the Austin Chronicle's Songwriter of the Year Award, and lauded for personal songs containing themes of sorrow, moral tribulation, love, and redemption, Americana and indie-folk singer/songwriter David Ramirez headlines a July 15 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the artist's 2020 album My Love Is a Hurricane lauded by No Depression as "a now painful and damaged, now warm and sweet exploration of the heartbroken spirit."

On July 21, an iconic country artist will be saluted by an award-winning vocalist when Rock Island's Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse hosts two performances of the concert event Karen as Dolly: Dolly Parton Tribute, with Karen Hester recreating the look, sound, and spirit of one of the most successful, and most beloved, personalities in modern American history.