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Relationships can be murder. That was certainly true for the homosexual couple Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. The brilliant, arrogant, cold and calculating teenagers – who committed the so-called “crime of the century” nearly 100 years ago in Chicago – are the subjects of the new Black Box Theatre show in downtown Moline, “Thrill Me: The […]

The Black Box Theatre is giving fans more time to see live theatre as it expands to three week runs of shows, starting with the first show of the eighth season, the chamber musical “Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story,” book, music and lyrics by Stephen Dolginoff. The show runs from February 9 to 24. […]

Nothing can kill this Mockingbird. Less than six weeks after The Mockingbird on Main lost its theater in the building collapse at 324 Main St., Davenport, the show literally must go on, as a new production of its planned “The Glass Menagerie” will open at the Black Hawk College theater in Moline Friday, July 7 […]

I’ll be honest: The crazy, early-spring, heavy snowstorm that knocked out power to my house earlier in my Saturday soured my mood, and I was not really looking forward to going out to see playwright Bradley Robert Jensen's Anywhere But Here. This, though, made it all the better that this workshop production turned out to be such a gem – Jensen's slice-of-life piece is