Look below for information on arts and entertainment around central Illinois. Click on the location to connect to the event organizers. If you have an arts or entertainment event in central Illinois coming up, please email us at willnewsroom@illinois.edu. Listen to Kimberly Schofield and Owen Henderson talk about weekend events on IPM News AM 580 and FM 90.9 – Wednesdays at 6:45 and 8:45 a.m., and Thursdays at 5:44 p.m.
| Dates | Theaters | Live Music | Museums | Outdoors |
| August 25 weekend | Auditions for Mac Beth and Zombie Prom | Dan Kusaya | Leafless Trees | Sweet Corn Circus |
| Auditions for WROL and House of Desires | Kilborn Alley Blues Band | Market at the Square | ||
| Costume and Prop Sale | ||||
| An Evening with Nick Offerman | ||||
| August 18 weekend | Movie Night: “The Emperor’s New Groove” | Lunchtime Concert featuring Jean-René Balekita | Touch-A-Truck
Carle at the Fields, Champaign |
Pedal The Preserves |
| August 11 weekend | “The Little Mermaid” film showing on Summer Films on the Quad | The Doobie Brothers, Alanis Morissette, REO Speedwagon | Mola Magic | Perseid meteor shower watch at 38th annual Astronomy Jamboree |
| “Ride The Cyclone: The Musical” | The Village People | Perseid meteor shower watch
Sugar Creek Shelter, Middle Fork River Forest Preserve, Penfield |
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| “My Little Titus Andronicus” | Prairie Crossroads Blue Society | |||
| August 4 weekend | “Ride The Cyclone: The Musical” | Reggae with Colt Ball & Friends and Gizzae | Summer Prairie Skies & Solar Superstorms | Meet the Critters |
| “The Music Man” | Ngoma Africa Ensemble, The Brother Brothers | 28th Annual Run Mahomet 13.1M, 10K, 5K | ||
| “My Little Titus Andronicus” | MeadowHawk |