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Rebecca Casad certainly didn’t think small when making her community theater directing debut. The multi-talented 2022 Augustana alum helms the massive – and massively fun — new show, “Legally Blonde: The Musical” in an exuberant, pulsating production at Spotlight Theatre, 1800 7th Ave., Moline. Casad directs with passion, purpose and confidence, and the result is […]

In her first role at Moline’s Spotlight Theatre in nearly five years, Liv Lyman was fated to play the iconic Elle Woods in a new production of “Legally Blonde: The Musical.” The feel-good, pretty-in-pink show opens Friday, Feb. 16 at Spotlight, 1800 7th Ave., Moline. Lyman was in the 2014 Music Guild production of the […]

When it first debuted on Broadway under the title SpongeBob SquarePants, the show went on to receive 12 Tony nominations, though it won only one. The Spotlight Theatre’s production, helmed by Noah Hill, largely fits that same mold, with a lot of great work coming through. But things didn’t gel as much as I hoped they would.

A boisterous, hilarious, critically acclaimed adaptation of Nickelodeon’s long-running animated children’s sitcom SpongeBob Squarepants, The SpongeBob Musical makes its eagerly awaited area debut at Moline's Spotlight Theatre, the show's June 2 through 11 run sure to demonstrate why this family treat earned 12 Tony Award nominations including Best Musical, and why the New York