Even if you've previously seen Lyon's takes on The Firebird and La Création du monde, which will enjoy two stagings at Davenport's Adler Theatre on April 12, you won't have seen them quite the way you soon will.

Paco Erhard is intimately familiar with misconceptions about Germans – they're stern, humorless, etc. Well, the 49-year-old comedian has long been on a mission to bust those assumptions up, and will make his Iowa debut in his standup show 5-Step Guide to Being German, taking place on Saturday, March 29 at 7:30 p.m. at Davenport’s Adler Theatre.

Ballet Quad Cities' Love Stories February 2025

Returning to Davenport's Galvin Fine Arts Center with their first full St. Ambrose University presentation in more than six years, the gifted professional dancers of Ballet Quad Cities stage their latest, Valentine's-themed iteration of Love Stories on February 22 and 23.

The Adler Theatre Volunteer Usher Corps

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.

Wednesday, December 4 will be a big day for Dr. Kit Evans-Ford and the many people served by her life-changing nonprofit organizations.

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.

Despite the author's 19th-century output, audiences shouldn't expect a performance of traditional 19th-century dance – not unless folks in the 1800s were also hoofing it to Jefferson Airplane, Led Zeppelin, and Jimi Hendrix.

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

Last February, in the 50th-anniversary season of Quad City Arts’ Visiting Artist Series, hip-hop dancing and beatboxing illustrated how elusive world peace may be possible.

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.

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