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Pat Gaik proposed The Baker's Wife as Prairie Fire Theatre's summer production. Once they heard it, they couldn't say no.
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Nashville collagist David Wilson hasn't had a solo show in Bloomington-Normal since his MFA thesis at Illinois State. But the community remains an important touchstone of his quarter-century career since then.
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McLean County's namesake town likely has the highest arcade-to-people ratio in the world. And Arcadia is still growing.
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The festival's three productions—The Importance of Being Earnest, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Hamlet—run in rotation through Aug. 2.
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MIOpera returns to Bloomington-Normal for its first full-length performance in the Twin Cities in two years. "Nunsense" exemplifies the company's desire to be more "portable," bringing opera to several communities across Central Illinois.
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Bloomington-based rapper and hip-hop artist Darīus will showcase new music at Make Music Normal later this month. Ahead of the show, Williams talks to WGLT about his journey in music.
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Nancy and Ben Pounds' Bloomington yard is featured as part of a 10-home garden tour benefiting the David Davis Mansion.
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Community members in McLean County can paint portraits that will be part of a mural outside of the McLean County Arts Center.
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The 2025 Illinois Shakespeare Festival marks a first-ever production of Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" and two directorial debuts by Central Illinois natives Kim McKean and Vanessa Stalling.
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The band's first full-length album of all-original songs isn't afraid to veer slightly from the rules, but they're a rockabilly band "through and through."