The Quad Cities will explode with tons of fun events (and literally with fireworks) this weekend as Alternating Currents returns August 13-16 with its biggest festival yet. It will transform Downtown Davenport, Rock Island and Bettendorf into a four-day celebration of music, film, comedy, art, culture and creativity. With more than 230 events, representing 600+ […]
Halloween apparently has come early at Moline’s Playcrafters Barn Theatre, with the dark and disturbing “Murder by Poe,” by Jeffrey Hatcher, an impressive directing debut by local theater veteran Pam Cantrell. In her director’s note in the program, Cantrell establishes her bona fides as a fan of the master horror writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), […]
Aside from being familiar with the earworm “Let It Go,” and admirer of much of the leading voice cast of the Disney animated blockbuster “Frozen,” I came into Sunday’s Spotlight Theatre production of the 2018 stage musical knowing very little about the show. As a friend of mine also in the nearly sold-out audience (in […]
You really don’t need to be a Harry Potter buff to enjoy the supremely silly new production of “Puffs,” now at The Black Box Theatre in downtown Moline. The rambunctious, enthusiastic cast gives the word “madcap” whole new meaning. With “Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic,” which also was […]
The relatable, sympathetic world of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” is kind of like a school “island of misfit toys.” As someone who felt out of place and awkward throughout my pre-teen and teen years (some things don’t change), I could totally identify with the quirky, awkward group of six students who in […]
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The Black Box Theatre is presenting “Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic,” this weekend and next, at 1623 5th Ave., Moline. For all of the fans who grew up alongside Harry Potter and want to revisit that world, “Puffs” exudes a jovial, slapstick energy for all things Harry, according […]
A kind of theater All-Star Game for the Quad Cities will be on display the next two weekends, with a new Quad-City Music Guild production of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” at Prospect Park, 1584 34th Ave., Moline. Performances will be Aug. 7-9, and 13-16, 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and […]
Another killer play is coming to Playcrafters Barn Theatre, with “Murder by Poe,” by Jeffrey Hatcher, presented at the Barn, 4950 35th Ave., Moline, at 7:30 p.m. Fridays Aug. 7 and 14, Saturdays Aug. 8 and 15, and at 3 p.m. Sundays Aug. 9 and 16. Playcrafters, in its 97th year, presents “Murder by Poe,” […]
A second Texas Roadhouse location is opening in the Quad-Cities, and this time it’s on the Illinois side of the river. Joining the popular Davenport location by the movie theaters, the new Texas Roadhouse spot will be at 3620 38th Ave. in Moline, across John Deere Road from such popular locations as Chick Fil A […]
