A bona fide musical-theatre classic serves as the final stage production in Augustana College's 2021-22 season at the Brunner Theatre Center, with Shelley Cooper directing and choreographing the May 5 through 8 run of The Threepenny Opera, a work revered for its score that boasts the unforgettable “The Ballad of Mack the Knife” and its legendary collaboration between author Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill.

With Chicago Theatre Review praising its "beautiful, heartfelt score" and "gentle reminder of how it's still important to be loving, kind, and supportive of one another," the musical version of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel Little Women serves as the final stage production in St. Ambrose University's 2021-22 theatre season, the show's April 29 through May 1 also the final presentation to be directed by the university's beloved, retiring professor Corinne Johnson.

You've got playwright Ira Levin, and you've got the Black Box Theatre's talented staff and crew, so with Veronica's Room, you're already pretty much guaranteed a satisfying experience. But with the gifted cast Lora Adams has assembled, it's actually an outstanding one.

With the latest touring production at the University of Dubuque's Heritage Center described by the Boston Globe as “uproariously entertaining,” musical-theatre fans will definitely want to be in “the room where it happens” on April 19 when the venue hosts the area premiere of Spamilton: An American Parody, the latest stage satire by the comic mastermind behind the long-running hit Forbidden Broadway.