Whether one head-banged with Rob Zombie and Black Sabbath in the 1990s, enjoyed dinner and a Broadway musical downtown in the 2000s, or busted a gut at a John Crist tour stop in 2024, the experience inside the Adler Theatre on show night always begins on a positive and classy note thanks to the heretofore unheralded volunteer usher corps.

You may think blending the exquisite classical beauty of the Nutcracker ballet with the gritty urban energy of hip hop would be like oil and water. Yet The Hip Hop Nutcracker – making its Quad Cities debut at Davenport's Adler Theatre (136 East Third Street) on November 27 – has entertained audiences nationwide since 2013. The beloved holiday story and enchanting music, paired with staggeringly limber breakdancers, will be performed as part of a tour to more than 25 U.S. cities.

Peg Rounds is friends with the ghosts of John Hauberg and Susanne Denkmann Hauberg.

There’s a new Carnegie Hall in downtown Moline.

Just 12 years younger than the world-famous New York City venue, Sound Conservatory has renovated a section of the former Carnegie library building (erected in 1903) into a beautiful, elegant performance space.