Back by popular demand, Second City returns for two shows to the Hoogland Center for the Arts on Saturday, Nov. 2. Drawing on classic material from The Second City archives as well as scenes rip...

 Springfield Theatre Center opens its new season with the hilarious Spamalot at the Hoogland Center for the Arts, weekends, Oct. 18-27. Yes, this musical was birthed from the classic Monty Python...

 The entertaining and interesting PechaKucha returns to the Hoogland Center for the Arts on Thursday, Oct. 17. The next edition proves to be as much fun as the last. A few of the 10 presenters an...

In a 1981 case study conducted at the University of Kansas, researchers described the experiences of a woman with the neurological condition called chromesthesia, which caused her to experience sound as a visual color experience as well as an auditory sensation. Chromesthetics describe every sound they hear as triggering a simultaneous visual component. It is hard to imagine let alone...

The 20th Annual Juneteenth Celebration takes to Comer Cox Park, June 15-16. New this year is a gospel fest on Sunday from 2-4 p.m. featuring local church and area gospel groups. A new splash fountain ...

Minneapolis’ Kevin Bowe and the Okemah Prophets will rock the Hoogland Center for the Arts March 22 for the next WUIS Bedrock 66 Series concert. Known as an accomplished songwriter, Bowe wrote f...

If last Monday someone tried to pull an April Fool’s joke on me by talking about the quality and variety of upcoming live music this month, I think I’d wholeheartedly felt foolish and fell...

Musician David Cain (vocals, saxophone), seven-time Grammy-winner Paul Wertico (drums), Larry Gray (upright bass, cello and flute) and David Hoffman (trumpet and arranger for Ray Charles for 13 years)...

Get ready to start your feet tapping. The musical revue Smokey Joe’s Café is booked for two weekends, March 8-17, at the Hoogland Center for the Arts. This local production features 40 of...

I’m telling you what – I had a whale of a time last Saturday night right here in lovely, downtown Springfield. From first being one of “those guys” not wanting to leave the hou...