The Illinois Shakespeare Festival has announced its 2026 season, featuring two Shakespeare plays and, for the first time, an American classic.

With support from a Healing Illinois grant, the Bloomington-Normal-based opera company is producing several months of programing centering Black composers and stories in the genre.

The exhibition is on view at the McLean County Arts Center alongside the center's popular emerging artist exhibition—something curator George Woodworth calls "huge" for the artists' journeys through and out of addiction.

The actor and comedian Bob Odenkirk will visit Normal next week for a preview screening of his new film "Normal," and yes, it's happening at the Normal Theater. Here's what we know about the availability of tickets day-of at the theater's box office.

Historian Barry McNealy teaches high school history and works with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. He'll give a public talk at Eureka College on March 27.

Actor Bob Odenkirk will appear in person April 2 at the Normal Theater to talk about his new film "Normal." After a 7 p.m. screening, Odenkirk will be joined on stage by screenwriter Derek Kolstad for a discussion about the movie.

The Bloomington-based singer-songwriter has produced his first record with a label—and the first with his touring band, the Fieldnotes. They'll play the Castle Theatre on March 28.

The theater and light opera company embarks on a first-time collaboration with the Music Connections Foundation to mount 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' this summer at Heartland Community College

The Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home tells the story of graphic novelist Alison Bechdel's testing time of writing her autobiography. The Community Players Theatre gives the musical's Bloomington-Normal debut this weekend at the Normal Community Activity Center.

Meet members of the WGLT newsroom before the movie and ask your news questions.

Mummy Cass and his band mates make up the all-original anonymous funk band called Here Come the Mummies. 5,000 years ago, they were in sarcophagi, but now they're playing at the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts.

The Music Shoppe, a family-owned instrument sales and service center with three locations in Central Illinois, is celebrating a big milestone. Past and present owners discuss their unlikely success in a niche industry.