From August 2 through 11, audiences at Moline's Prospect Park Auditorium are invited to cheer a rousing “L'chaim!” when the talents at Quad City Music Guild present Fiddler on the Roof, a new staging of the beloved theatrical masterpiece from Tony winner Joseph Stein and Pulitzer Prize winners Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick.

Following the success of last year's Spotlight on Susan Glaspell by the debuting theatre company New Athens Players and its founder (and Reader theatre reviewer) Mischa Hooker, the play's reader's-theatre followup Susan Glaspell & Friends will enjoy a July 30 presentation at Augustana College's Honkamp Myhre Black Box Theatre, the evening a celebration of works by Davenport writer Glaspell and two of her fellow females connected to the highly influential Provincetown Players: Edna Ferber and Djuna Barnes.

It’s hard to imagine a more ideal venue for a performance of Charlotte’s Web than the Playcrafters Barn Theatre. Because the show's action takes place almost entirely in a barn, the space itself blends seamlessly with the set, inviting the audience to immerse themselves in the world of the play.

Returning for their third consecutive blast of season-ending silliness in Rock Island's Lincoln Park, the Haus of Ruckus duo of Tee Green and Calvin Vo will lend their signature wit – and that of Guild founder Don Wooten – to a new version of the Aristophanes comedy Plutus, its July 20 through 28 run treating patrons to, as Green says, “an example of satire written in ancient Greece that still holds up in 2024. Which is a bummer.”