Diana Nollen

University of Iowa venue announces 2021-22 season, working through budget challenges

Fireworks are returning to downtown Cedar Rapids, plus dozens of other shows across the area.

American Ballet Theatre bringing its outdoor tour to Iowa City’s Hancher Green for a firecracker Fourth of July experience.

Karol Shepherd became the Cedar Rapids Freedom Festival’s events and marketing director just two months before the pandemic shut down the outside world, and ultimately, the 2020 festival. Then she stepped into the executive director position less than two months before the 2021 festival opened.

Here are the festival’s official and affiliated events happening June 24 through July 1 in Cedar Rapids.

Van Gogh exhibit, Skydeck reopening lure travelers to Windy City

“Bright Star” is a bright spot under the stars in Brucemore’s outdoor amphitheater.

Lovar Davis Kidd of Cedar Rapids moves from national tour of the musical nearly a decade ago to audience member for the new movie version of “In the Heights.”

For panel of renowned opera singers assembled in Cedar Rapids, the answer is a resounding yes.

Theatre Cedar Rapids is staging the Steve Martin-Edie Brickell musical on Brucemore’s amphitheater stage from June 18 to July 3, 2021.

Midwest rockers relaunch their 50th anniversary tour June 25 during The Roundup at McGrath Amphitheatre in southwest Cedar Rapids.

The Roundup is bringing award-winning barbecue and blast from the past concerts to McGrath Amphitheatre in downtown Cedar Rapids from June 24 to 26, 2021.

More than 50 people are in the cast of “Charcoal Skies,” with another 25 working behind the scenes, from producing and directing to sound and cinematography

The present Columbus Junction Swinging Bridge was built in 1920, spanning 262 feet, and in 1954, the flooring and steel cable were refurbished.

Cedar Rapids Opera, African American Museum of Iowa collaborate on concerts, panel discussion to showcase Black artists and spark conversations.