Drama is conflict, and the Black Box Theatre's current production, titled Hate Mail, reveals its conflict within the first two minutes. As the battle slowly escalated, I wondered how playwrights Bill Corbett and Kira Obolensky could sustain the animosity and keep it building for an entire play. How dark could it get and

The Showboat's former producing artistic director Matthew Teague Miller directed Always ... Patsy Cline, while Kory Danielson is music director and conductor, also playing piano during the performances. Much thought and work no doubt went into staging this production, but Miller, Danielson, and their crew make it seem like it came together spontaneously and organically.

A beloved and riotous Broadway smash that won three Tony Awards, ran for 1,575 performances, and was even commemorated on a British Royal Mail stamp, Monty Python's Spamalot will be presented June 11 through 13 in a virtual performance by Quad City Music Guild, this modern classic a stage farce that the New York Times called “resplendently silly” and that, according to the UK's Independent, “leaves you high and weak with laughter.”

Presenting its first live family musical in more than a year, Rock Island's Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse accompanies its current mainstage production Beehive: The '60s Musical with the winning stage entertainment Elephant & Piggie's "We Are in a Play!", a charming treat, running June 11 through July 2, based on author Mo Willems' beloved, award-winning, best-selling children's books.

A biting comedy that, according to OnMilwaukee.com, “makes numerous clever brushes with social satire that provide a profoundly interesting look into the heart of human communication,” Bill Corbett's and Kira Obolensky's Hate Mail enjoys a June 3 through 12 run at Moline's Black Box Theatre, with the Twin Cities Reader raving, “Corbett and Obolensky drip sardonic, hilarious acid from their pens, picking apart their characters with enviously articulate and explosively funny letter-grenades.”

Described by the Chicago Tribune as “sincere, rich, heartfelt, and an ideal gift for anybody who loves these numbers and the women who made them linger,” the bio-musical Always … Patsy Cline enjoys a June 3 through 13 run as the first new Clinton Area Showboat Theatre production since 2019 – a loving salute to the beloved performer and her collection of iconic hits that includes “Crazy,” “I Fall to Pieces,” Back in Baby's Arms,” “Walkin' After Midnight,” and “Sweet Dreams.”

Staging its first full Broadway musical in more than a year, Moline's Spotlight Theatre will house a can't-miss crowd-pleaser from June 4 through 13 in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, the Tony Award-winning reunion for Charles M. Schulz's beloved Peanuts characters that the New York Times called “a miracle,” adding that “almost everything works, because almost everything is effortless.”

Returning to the presentation of live theatre for the first time since March of 2020, Moline's Playcrafters Barn Theatre is proud to host the world premiere of a new drama in the organization's popular Barn Owl Series: Princeton's Rage, which, during its June 4 through 13 run, will address the lingering damage of sexual assault through a script by local playwright and area performer Don Faust.

If life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown to the Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse and experience their latest offering Beehive: The '60s Musical. Director/choreographer Shelley Cooper and her gang of six ladies will take you on a musical journey through the decade that is chock-full of your classic favorites. This fun night of familiar tunes is exactly the answer – it’s a gas!

Described by Broadway World as “a musical so jam-packed with hits that it's almost overwhelming,” the toe-tapping, soul-lifting revue Beehive: The '60s Musical enjoys a late-spring/early-summer run at Rock Island's Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse, this infectiously entertaining salute to female pop, rock, and soul singers lauded by DC Metro Theater Arts as “a big-hearted, well-accomplished, utterly tuneful joy.”

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