IT Picks | Thursday, April 18,2013

Celebrity soiree

Springfield Art Association’s Personalities Paint, April 20 from 6-9 p.m., is a fun party for a good cause. Art exhibit openings are always a blast, but at this one you can rub elbows with some

IT Picks | Thursday, April 18,2013

Six-string master

By Anita Stienstra

Springfield Classical Guitar Society concludes its 2012-2013 concert season with prize-winning and world-touring classical guitarist Zane Forshee. Forshee will perform music by Albeniz, Scarlatti, Bel

IT Picks | Thursday, April 11,2013

Memory traces

By Anita Stienstra

Springfield’s oldest home, Elijah Iles House, has a new exhibit about Camp Butler that includes artifacts from soldiers who were at the camp. A few of the items on display are photographs, unifo

IT Picks | Thursday, April 11,2013

Friends forever

By Anita Stienstra

Roxy Theatricals presents the Always ... Patsy Cline, April 12-14, 18-21, at The Legacy Theatre. The musical is based on the true story of Cline’s friendship with Houston fan Louise Seger.

IT Picks | Thursday, April 11,2013

Notable rhymester

By Anita Stienstra

Mary Jo Bang, poet and English professor at Washington University in St. Louis, will speak in Brookens Auditorium at the University of Illinois Springfield. Bang has authored six books of poems, inclu

IT Picks | Thursday, April 11,2013

Vibrant virtuosos

By Anita Stienstra

Boundary breaking violinist Nicolas Kendall of Time for Three, ensemble-in-residence with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, plays with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, April 13 at Sangamon Auditori

IT Picks | Thursday, April 4,2013

Buddhist teacher

By Anita Stienstra

Arjia Rinpoche returns to Springfield to expand on his well-received presentation here last year about escaping from Tibet, chronicled in his book, Surviving the Dragon. The Buddhist teacher will spea

IT Picks | Thursday, April 4,2013

Moving drama

By Anita Stienstra

UIS Theatre presents six performances of the 1933 play Awake and Sing by Clifford Odets April 5-7 and 11-13 in the Studio Theatre. Originally produced in 1935 by the revolutionary theatre company know

IT Picks | Thursday, April 4,2013

Small town charm

The Elkhart Historical Society is offering springtime activities throughout April in the small town of Elkhart, just 20 miles north of Springfield off I-55. Popular wildflower hikes are Saturday, Apri

IT Picks | Thursday, March 28,2013

Star bards

By Anita Stienstra

Two local college writing professors, one retired and one not, playfully post on their book-signing invitation “Two Poets Journey to The Holy Land.” You’re invited to this journey wh