Boasting what will doubtless be the most heavily populated cast that area audiences have seen all year and will see for the remainder of 2025, Dare to Dream Jr.: A Disney Musical Revue runs at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts October 24 through 26, this presentation by Young Footliters Youth Theatre featuring many of your favorite Disney songs and an ensemble of 98 young talents.

Lauded by the New York Times as a "brutal satire about mythmaking" and by the Hollywood Reporter as "something for which to be truly thankful," author Larissa FastHorse's comedy The Thanksgiving Play makes its Quad Cities debut at Moline's Black Box Theatre October 17 through November 2, the show's 2023 New York rendition marking the first time that a female Native American playwright had a play produced on Broadway.

As I drove through the waning dusk of a scorching hot fall evening, I wondered what was in store with the Richmond Hill Barn Theatre’s production of The Woman in Black, directed and designed by Dana Skiles. Turns out, a frighteningly good time. With a wealth of talent on stage and off, this production is not one to miss for fans of horror or damn good theatre.

With the stage hit lauded by Broadway World as "entirely entertaining and enjoyable," the spooky, kooky, ooky musical-comedy version of The Addams Family brings its national tour to Davenport's Adler Theatre on October 16, this opener to the 2025-26 Broadway at the Adler series treating audiences to a Tony Award-nominated delight inspired by the beloved TV comedy and the iconic cartoon strip by series originator Charles Addams.