A fictional private school gets a wake-up call when a mumps outbreak challenges its consensus-based model. The play opens Heartland Theatre's 2026-27 season next week.

The sculpture park at One Town Plaza has been in progress for two years and features four art installations.

Prairie Fire Theatre is collaborating with Music Connections Foundation for their summer production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

WGLT talks to Faisal Rashid from Bloomington, organizer of Central Illinois' first local celebration of Pakistan Day. It's set for Aug. 23 in Mahomet.

The arts center's flea infestation is a "speed bump" in the nonprofit's goal of serving the community.

Armored Medieval Martial Arts combines cage fighting with armored combat. The competitors seem ripped from the Middle Ages, donning gambesons, gauntlets, greaves and helms before stepping into the ring. The blades are dulled.

Erik Nelson was a music producer at Eclipse Studios at 404 Northtown Rd. in north Normal and previously owned Sinewave Studios in Bloomington. Nelson died of cancer on Sunday at age 57.

The History Channel show sifting through collectors' homes and garages is coming to Illinois and in search of places to film.

Plus, stars from Broadway's Wicked, a Gershwin tribute and a Shakespeare-inspired overture.

The Penguin Project of McLean County is launching Penguin Players, a new community theater program designed for performers with disabilities who are 22 years and older. The chapter's existing theater program, which modifies full-scale musicals for the stage, serves performers ages 10 to 24.

A Cincinnati-based Americana duo which once called Bloomington-Normal home is returning to play in the Twin Cities next month — in a venue they helped launch that's been on hiatus since the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Bloomington-based band has announced that following its current tour, the Fieldnotes will disband. The group performs in Downtown Bloomington on Aug. 1 with Dan Hubbard as the finale to the Saturdays on the Square concert series.