This isn't merely The Truth's venue debut, nor its Quad Cities debut, nor its Midwestern debut. It's the show's United States debut, with Black Box co-founder and artistic director Lora Adams the first person in the U.S. to receive the rights to this critically acclaimed theatre piece.

If you’re anything like me, from the moment you step into the Prospect Park Auditorium, you’ll be swept away by the stark and rickety set that is the little village of Anatevka, and the fact that the titular Fiddler is already just chilling on the roof. You might miss Josiah Wollan initially – he kind of blends in and the set is merely backlit – but his humanity emanates from time to time in small movements ... or, at least, it did at Friday’s opening-night performance of Quad City Music Guild's Fiddler on the Roof.

With the Houston Press promising that "an entertaining evening awaits" in the debut of the Richmond Hill Barn Theatre's new comedy, playwright Pat Cook's farce The Money in Uncle George's Suitcase enjoys a Geneseo run from August 15 through 25, the comedy additionally hailed by the Houston Press as "a humorous look at the dysfunction of family life, especially when money gets involved."

Ten miles from the Mississippi River, the peaceful, corn-stippled town of Eldridge escaped the floods. Yet it is currently awash by the undersea explosion of music, color, joy, laughter, and drama that is Disney's The Little Mermaid, which is being produced by Countryside Community Theatre at the North Scott High School Auditorium.