It Ends with Us isn't necessarily great. It is, however, a crowd-pleaser that's strong and sincere and unexpectedly touching … and unlike the film Blake Lively's husband is currently starring in, at least it makes a modicum of sense.

Trap may not be very good, but you gotta hand it to M. Night Shymalan: He does have a flair for the perverse.

Following the success of last year's Spotlight on Susan Glaspell by the debuting theatre company New Athens Players and its founder (and Reader theatre reviewer) Mischa Hooker, the play's reader's-theatre followup Susan Glaspell & Friends will enjoy a July 30 presentation at Augustana College's Honkamp Myhre Black Box Theatre, the evening a celebration of works by Davenport writer Glaspell and two of her fellow females connected to the highly influential Provincetown Players: Edna Ferber and Djuna Barnes.

Returning for their third consecutive blast of season-ending silliness in Rock Island's Lincoln Park, the Haus of Ruckus duo of Tee Green and Calvin Vo will lend their signature wit – and that of Guild founder Don Wooten – to a new version of the Aristophanes comedy Plutus, its July 20 through 28 run treating patrons to, as Green says, “an example of satire written in ancient Greece that still holds up in 2024. Which is a bummer.”