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Mike Schulz

Davenport

Arts and Calendar Editor at River Cities' Reader

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Articles

  • Cobra Why?: “Karate Kid: Legends,” “Bring Her Back,” and “Mountainhead”

    6 days ago | rcreader.com | Mike Schulz

    KARATE KID: LEGENDSOn some level, I guess I admire director Jonathan Entwistle's series extender for being the polar opposite of most summer-blockbuster sequels, which, with a hat tip to South Park, seem almost contractually required to be bigger, and definitely longer – to the point that, like the new Mission: Impossible, they can also appear uncut. But Karate Kid: Legends, budgeted at a seasonally stingy $45 million,isn't bigger.

  • You 'Do Something to Me: “Steel Magnolias,” at the Richmond Hill Barn Theatre through June 8

    6 days ago | rcreader.com | Pamela Briggs |Mike Schulz

    Having been neither a resident of a small Southern community nor a regular at a hair salon, I can't say how accurate the ambiance and dialogue are in Robert Harling's imaginary Beauty Spot in Steel Magnolias. I don't know whether he's ever set foot in a real one. However, his vision has certainly struck a chord with audiences, locally and worldwide. The play opened off-Broadway in 1987, had a big-screen adaptation in 1989, and a small-screen one in 2012 – even a 1990 sitcom-pilot sequel.

  • Live from Timber Lake … It’s Saturday Night!: “Saturday Night Fever,” at the Timber Lake Playhouse through June 8

    6 days ago | rcreader.com | Alexander Richardson |Mike Schulz

    It must be summer again, because on Friday night, I found myself on my annual pilgrimage north through hordes of mayflies to attend the start of the new Timber Lake Playhouse season. Critiquing shows is always a bit of a dice roll: Will it be moving or boring? Director Tommy Ranieri's Saturday Night Fever is more of the former, and an extraordinary start to the summer-stock season.

  • On Closets, Coffins, and Comics: “Fun Home,” at the Black Box Theatre through June 14

    6 days ago | rcreader.com | Mischa Hooker |Mike Schulz

    If you like your musical theatre honest, funny, and devastatingly intimate, you need to see Fun Home at the Black Box Theatre. Based on Alison Bechdel’s award-winning graphic memoir, this musical is about coming of age, coming out, and coming to terms with the past.

  • Genesius Guild's “Oedipus Rex,” June 7 through 15

    1 week ago | rcreader.com | Mike Schulz

    Saturday, June 7, through Sunday, June 15Lincoln Park, 1120 40th Street, Rock Island ILOpening its 2025 season with one of the most dynamic and unforgettable Greek tragedies ever written, Genesius Guild's outdoor presentation of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex enjoys a June 7 through 15 run in Rock Island's Lincoln Park, this tale of hubris and much, much worse serving as the theatre company's annual presentation largely performed in traditional Greek masks.

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