The Genesius Guild theater in Rock Island will present four performances of Shakespeare’s tragedy Antony & Cleopatra, opening this weekend. Show dates are July 12, 13, 19, and 20, with performances starting at 7 p.m. at Lincoln Park’s Don Wooten stage, 1120 40th St., Rock Island. Admission for the show is free. Antony & Cleopatra is the sequel to last […]
Richmond Hill Players’ next production is billed as a hilarious tribute to the English farces of the 1930s and ’40s. Ken Ludwig’s “A Fox on the Fairway” (which premiered in 2010 and was done at Moline’s Playcrafters in 2013) takes audiences on a riotous ride that recalls the classics of the Marx Brothers, according to […]
Girl power is the theme this summer at Countryside Community Theatre at North Scott High School’s Fine Arts Auditorium in Eldridge. The first production in the two-show season is the delightful, relentlessly entertaining and inspirational “Sister Act,” the popular 2009 Alan Menken musical based on the hit 1992 film starring Whoopi Goldberg. Countryside has a […]
Addie Jorgensen is just 20, but the two lead roles she’s already had in musicals both concern high school girls who have a challenging time at their prom. The bubbly 2023 Geneseo High grad played the title character in the iconic horror story “Carrie,” in Double Threat Studios’ summer 2022 production, and now Jorgensen is […]
The Genesius Guild in Rock Island is mixing it up this holiday weekend, with a free musical performance. Sunday, July 6, opera returns to the park, with a special guest performance by Opera Quad Cities in the Lincoln Park bandshell. The performance begins at 7 p.m. and, as always, admission is free. Opera QC was […]
Danielle Colby has built an impressive body of work as a burlesque performer, passionate history buff, and co-star of the long-running History cable series, “American Pickers.” Now a new museum showcasing a fraction of her extensive collection of adult entertainment is open in the heart of downtown Davenport, once known as the “wickedest city in […]
One of the many Quad Cities nonprofit leaders attending Monday’s roundtable on planned federal funding cuts was Brian Allen, executive director of Quad City Arts. One of the many funding sources for the local nonprofit agency (which serves six counties in eastern Iowa and western Illinois) is the National Endowment for the Arts, which has […]
Like many nationwide, local nonprofits are facing serious challenges and they plan to band together to address planned federal funding cuts and how to survive them. Shifting federal priorities were addressed Monday in a Nonprofit Legislative Roundtable, led by four QC nonprofit leaders – River Bend Food Bank president/CEO Chris Ford; Community Health Care CEO […]
The legendary composer/pianist George Gershwin was just 25 when he wrote and premiered his “Rhapsody in Blue” in New York City, Feb. 12, 1924. Just three months later, Gershwin and the Paul Whiteman Orchestra took the groundbreaking concerto (which spanned jazz and classical genres) to Davenport as part of an 18-city national tour. Gates Thomas, […]
Curtis B. Lewis Jr., grew up around Rock Island’s 14th ½ Street, where life revolved around the porch. Those meaningful beginnings form the foundation of his new play, “The Half,” which will premiere later this month at The Lincoln Center, Davenport. Lewis, a 2007 Rock Island High alum, is founder of Journey Live Production (JLP), […]
