Winner of seven 1980 Tony Awards including Best Musical and one of the most legendary titles on the estimable resumes of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice, the Broadway smash Evita enjoys an October 4 through 13 run at Moline's Spotlight Theatre, the original New York production of this iconic musical having finally closed after five-and-a-half years and 1,567 performances.

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.