Datebook
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Datebook features interviews and behind-the-scenes reports about new art exhibits, music releases and live performances, theater productions, and other community and charity events taking place throughout the listening area.
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Latest Datebook stories
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Playwright Sarah DeLappe's celebrated debut script is on stage at Illinois Wesleyan University — the perfect project for theater director and soccer superfan Christopher Connelly.
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Canadian conductor Tania Miller is the third of four finalists vying for the symphony's top job.
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David Davis Mansion celebrates Abraham Lincoln's 214th birthday in high style, plus a poignant play at Heartland Theatre and activities at the zoo.
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"We're All Buying Into A Dream" includes three previously-released singles: "Lottery," "Flashes" and "Dying Wish." The six-song EP drops Friday.
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Roots Rock, ice cream for breakfast and an open mic story slam are our picks for the first weekend in February.
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Veteran Peoria actor Tim Wyman suggested the play for Heartland's season — and wound up playing the only part.
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A new show at the ISU Planetarium offers a cinematic history of celestial science, while a John Prine cover band makes its central Illinois debut. And maestro Yaniv Dinur makes his final trip to Bloomington-Normal vying for the music directorship at Illinois Symphony.
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For the first time since 2015, University Galleries hosts an open call alumni exhibition, featuring 182 artworks from alumni spanning graduation dates from 1968-2023.
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Emmy-winning broadcast journalist Charlie Berens ventured into comedy with a satirical broadcast called the Manitowoc Minute. His latest stand-up routine is titled in honor of Wisconsin's signature brandy cocktail. The Good Old Fashioned Tour comes to the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts Thursday.
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Co-professors Eric Wesselmann and Stanford Carpenter's honors seminar on Black horror films was well-received by students and the public. The Normal Theater pressed them to mix up a new course focused on 1970s blaxploitation films.