With its source material named "the best American children's book of the past two hundred years" by the Children's Literature Association, the stage version of E.B. White's beloved Charlotte's Web enjoys an October 25 through 27 run at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts, this presentation by Footliters Imagination Studio designed for ages five and up, and one that explores bravery, selfless love, and what it means to be a friend.

With its songs by theatre legend Stephen Schwartz and its original life-size puppets created by West Liberty's Eulenspiegel Puppet Theatre Company, Disney's My Son Pinocchio Jr. serves as the 2024-25 season opening for the students talents of Young Footliters Youth Theatre, the one-act show's October 18 through 20 run at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts treating audiences to a brand-new take on the beloved cartoon masterpiece.

If Halloween is approaching, it must be time for that annual theatrical command: “Let's do the 'Time Warp' again!” Consequently, the Circa '21 Speakeasy will stage its ninth-annual presentation of the cult-musical smash The Rocky Horror Show from October 18 through 27, treating audiences to live performances of classic songs in this nutty, interactive experience that has been delighting show regulars and virgins alike for more than half a century.

Hailed by the Chicago Reader as a stage thriller that "ticks along like a stylish and well-oiled clock," playwright Jeffrey Hatcher's new take on the Alfred Hitchcock classic Dial M for Murder enjoys an October 18 through November 2 run at Moline's Black Box Theatre, the Chicago Sun-Times adding that this "crackling murder mystery" finds Hatcher providing "layers of meaning and 21st-century relevance."