JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT - Rating: PG Andrew Lloyd Webber has created a soft-rock fantasy from the biblical story of Joseph and his brethren and turned this ancient tale into a rollicking mixture of vaudevillian turns, country and western, calypso, 50's rock and roll, and acid rock. Show Performance Schedule is as follows from February 10 through March 20. Wednesday Matinees 11:45; Wednesday through Saturday Evening Shows 5:45; Sunday Evening Shows 3:45 Shows include meal - as this is a full service Dinner Theatre.

The USAF Heartland of America Band’s Brass Blue, a pioneering symphonic brass ensemble, will present a concert. The band is comprised of 10 brass players, one percussionist and a vocalist. The concert starts at 7:30 p.m.. It is free and open to the public; for tickets please send a self-addressed stamped envelope with a request for up to four tickets to the attention of the ticket office at 639 38th Street Rock Island, IL 61201.

Watch the new IMAX movie Wild Ocean 3D, and uplifting, giant screen cinema experience capturing one of nature's greatest migration spectacles. Plunge into an underwater feeding frenzy, amidst the dolphins, sharks, whales, gannet, seals, and billions of fish. Filmed off the Wild Coast of South Africa, Wild Ocean 3D is a timely documentary that celebrates the animals that now depend on us to survive and the efforts by the local people to protect this invaluable ecological resource. Hope is alive on the Wild Coast, where Africa meets the sea. This IMAX film is showing until May 20, 2010

Surrounded by three oceans, Australia is more like another planet than another country! Opening in February, this IMAX film explores the lavish richness, diversity, and uniqueness of Australia's life that survived and evolved during the most challenging of voyages. From kangaroos bounding majestically across the plains, to thorny devils scampering comically through the spinifex and koala families taking siestas, this film takes viewers to the beautiful land of Australia. The film is the winner of the 2009 Everyone's A Critic IMAX Film Series! This film runs until May 20, 2010. Check the Putnam Museum and IMAX Theatre website at www.putnam.org for show schedule and times.

This exhibit is part of the University of Iowa Museum of Art's collection and traces an important component of the history of Western printmaking: the usages and development of reproductive prints. The exhibition covers a span of 500 years, featuring approximately 80 European and American reproductive prints from the 15th to the 20th century. On view will be original prints by artists Albrecht Dürer, Jusepe De Ribera, Edouard Manet, Jean-Baptiste Corot, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, William Blake, Francisco Goya and Grant Wood, as well as reproductive prints made by engravers after the works of famous masters such as Raphael, Peter Paul Rubens, Annibale Caracci, Rembrandt, Jan Vermeer, Jan Van Eyck, Titian, Michelangelo and others.

The acclaimed illustrator, Arthur Geisert, takes readers on an intimate and often humorous journey—following Iowa County Road Y31— through the ins and outs of America’s farmland. Geisert’s artwork for Country Road ABC will be exhibited at the Figge February 27, 2010 - May 31, 2010. This isn’t your grandfather’s farm book. Sure, it features pigs, hay and other familiar symbols, but you’ll also see things relevant to present-day farm communities, such as the volunteer fire department, winter afternoons spent at the local bar, and the annual Fourth of July parade through town. Along the bottom of each page is a continuous panorama, totaling 45 feet of art, depicting the yearly cycle of life on a farm. Geisert has created 22 children’s books and received numerous awards, including The New York Times Best Illustrated Award and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. His work has been exhibited in such places as the Art Institute of Chicago and the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C. The New Yorker and Horn Book magazine also have featured his illustrations.

The Calder Mobile will be on temporary display at the Figge Art Museum from February 23 through May 31, 2010. Along with George Rickey, Alexander Calder was a pioneering figure in the development of abstract kinetic sculpture. Calder is particularly notable for his invention of the “mobile,” a free-hanging sculptural form composed of weighted shapes that are attached to finely balanced metal rods. The expressive curved elements in Mobile recall Surrealist paintings by Joan Miró, in which whimsical organic shapes appear to float and hover within a dream space. However, Calder’s effort to incorporate movement into his sculptures was strongly influenced by Russian Constructivism, which advocated the materialist principle of directly integrating artistic form with the surrounding spatial environment. The dynamic shifting patterns in the mobiles also express in three-dimensional form Cubist theories regarding the fluctuating, temporal basis of visual perception.

Our fans have spoken and Amor Desconocido (Unknown Love) choreographed by L.D. Kidd is the favorite piece from Love Stories! So… for those of you who want to see the piece again (and for those of you who missed Love Stories, a first opportunity), BQC will be presenting an encore performance on March 10th at 7:00pm with our Ugly Duckling & Other Dances! It will be presented at The Center for Performing Arts in Muscatine, IA. Amor Desconocido is a tango inspired dance, infused with hop hop that is set in a club atmosphere complete with a disco ball. The music is fun and flirty with a South American flair. The theatre is a perfect venue to enjoy a live dance performance. It’s small and intimate and there isn't a bad seat in the house. To make the short drive (30 minutes) from the QCA well worth your while… ticket prices are only $12 for Adults, $10 for Seniors and FREE for Children 12 & under with the purchase of an Adult ticket (Sponsored by US Bank). Tickets are on sale now at the Muscatine Hy-Vee or can be purchased at the door the night of the performance.