One of the most beloved stage musicals in American history and a Tony Award winner that has entertained family audiences for generations, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella serves as this year's fundraising performance by Muscatine's New Era Dinner Theatre, its October 4 through run finding its proceeds benefiting Lutheran World Relief, the Muscatine Center for Social Action, and New Era Lutheran Church.

Davenport Junior Theatre, the nation’s second oldest children’s theatre, is abandoning plans to move its operations to the former Younkers store at NorthPark Mall in Davenport. While its previously announced timeline expected an interim lease to be signed and construction to begin this fall, with a move-in date in June of 2025, the site selection for an interim space is back to square one.

“Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.” Or so goes the quip famously attributed to Benjamin Franklin – and 157 years after Franklin’s death, Tennessee Williams’ renowned A Streetcar Named Desire was first performed, perfectly embodying Franklin’s quote.

A Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner that stands as one of the most revered plays in theatrical history, Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire rolls into the Playcrafters Barn Theatre from September 13 through 22, this fierce, funny, and tragic work enjoying its first staging at the Moline venue in more than 50 years.