WILL Call: What’s happening in Champaign-Urbana Sept. 21-26

Look below for information on arts and entertainment around central Illinois. 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.

This weekend, September 21-26:

• The Krannert Center for Performing Arts in Urbana welcomes Ghanaian artist Okaidja Afroso and his show Jaku Mumor: Ancestral Spirit, a unique blend of ecological wisdom, ancestral traditions, and contemporary African oral storytelling.
• The Station Theatre hosts its final performances of The Inseparables, a feel-good comedy inspired by The Three Musketeers.
• The Spurlock Museum in Urbana will host CU Pride Fest: Behind the Mirror, featuring interviews with local drag stars.
• Opera and musical theater enthusiasts can look forward to the Lyric Theater Illinois’ annual Under the Stars performance at the Allerton Park’s Sunken Garden in Monticello.
• RuPaul’s Drag Race winners Alaska 5000 and Monet Exchange will grace the stage at the Krannert Center as part of the arts and culture festival Pygmalion.
• The Literary in Champaign is hosting its monthly Knit At Night, September 24 from 5 pm to 8 pm.

If you have an arts or entertainment event in central Illinois coming up, please email us at  willnewsroom@illinois.edu.