Writing about the iconic stage presentation The Vagina Monologues in a 2018 article, the New York Times stated, “No recent hour of theatre has had a greater impact worldwide.” And patrons of Moline's Playcrafters Barn Theatre will no doubt understand why that claim was made when Eve Ensler's revered work is staged in a February 6 through 9 production, the Times adding that the play is "probably the most important piece of political theatre of the last decade."

From January 24 through February 2, the Center for Living Arts, the Penguin Project of the Quad Cities, and Augustana College's theatre department will team up to help turn adolescents and adults with special needs into stage stars for the eagerly awaited All Shook Up, the Elvis-meets-Shakespeare musical comedy described by the New York Theatre Guide as “a terrifically entertaining time” and “a great big Broadway show that never loses its mind or its light touch."

A thrilling adaptation of Sophocles’ play Philoctetes by celebrated Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, The Cure at Troy serves as the first 2025 production at Iowa City's Riverside Theatre, the show's January 30 through February 9 run treating audiences to what Broad Street Review deemed "a rousing exploration of how our dark impulses threaten to shatter the soul – and how the light of compassion can temper our baser urges."

Lauded by the New York Times as "gorgeous" and "hypnotic," and by the Hollywood Reporter as "utterly fabulous," the still-running New York smash Hadestown brings its national tour to Davenport's Adler Theatre on January 15, this eagerly awaited Broadway at the Adler presentation the winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Direction, and, for composer Anaïs Mitchell, Best Original Score.