ART EXHIBITS

• The Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition is the second-longest running juried print and drawing competition in the country, and its 39th incarnation will be at Bradley galleries, the Peoria Art Guild, and the Peoria Riverfront Museum through March 22.

SPECIAL EVENTS

• Wildlife Prairie Park has a murder mystery dinner, “Bad Luck at the Irish Wake,” on March 8.
• Hosts from the History Channel’s “Ancient Aliens” program are set to appear live at the Peoria Civic Center on March 20.

COMEDY

• Jukebox Comedy Club has booked Sam Miller, a veteran of radio’s “Bob and Tom Show,” for three shows March 14-15.
• Standup comic and actor Jen Kober will perform at ICC Performing Arts Center on March 18.

THEATER

• The ICC Theatre department’s production of the comedy classic “Charley’s Aunt” wraps up a five-day run March 1-2 at the Performing Arts Center.
• Peoria Players Theatre presents “Murder on the Orient Express” opening on March 7.

MUSIC

• Heartland Festival Orchestra presents “St. George’s Sword and Bow” on March 1
  at the ICC Performing Arts Center.
• Peoria’s very own Americana quintet the Way Down Wanderers on March 1 will launch the first full month of the reopened Scottish Rite Cathedral, now TempleLive at Peoria.
• Union Avenue performs March 14 and Vinyl Tap on March 28 at the Contemporary Art Center for “Live at the Five Spot.”
• Peoria Symphony Orchestra presents “Faith and Begorrah” on March 14 at the Peoria Civic Center.
• Music from the group America will be showcased in “The Encore Tour 2025” March 15 at the Peoria Civic Center. Original member Dewey Bunnell remains in the lineup.
• The Nikki Malley Quintet will headline the Central Illinois Jazz Society’s March 16 show at the Trailside Event Center.

CLASSES & LECTURES

• The Peoria Historical Society has tours at the John C. Flanagan house on March 2 and at the Pettengill-Morron house on March 6, 9, 13, 20 and March 27. Also, the society will present a March 25 lecture at the Creve Coeur Club marking Caterpillar’s 100th anniversary.

— For more information, check out the full online calendar at artspartners.net.

SCREENS

March 2: The 97th Academy Awards will be broadcast live from the Dolby Theater, with Conan O’Brien hosting. ABC.

March 4: A decade after Charlie Cox portrayed blind Matt Murdock, lawyer and a superhero dubbed the Man without Fear on Netflix, he returns in “Daredevil: Born Again,” an 18-episode series also featuring the return of Vincent D’Onofrio, back as the villainous Wilson Fisk — “Kingpin.” Disney+.

March 7: Robert Pattinson stars in “Mickey 17,” an expendable crew member on a space mission who can return to “life” if he’s fatally wounded. What could go wrong? (Think Tom Cruise in “Edge of Tomorrow” or Rutger Hauer in “Blade Runer.”) Mark Ruffalo and Toni Collette co-star. In theaters.

March 14: Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh can be an acquired taste, but he’s not dull. Twenty years after “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” “Black Bag” has Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett as married spies coping with dangers, others’ suspicions and household trust issues. In theaters.

March 21: A lot of science fiction has changed to horror, and many trace that to Ridley Scott’s 1979 monster-movie-as-space-opera “Alien.” “Ash” seems more of the same, with a woman (Eiza Gonzalez) awakening on another planet with everyone on her crew killed. Trying to get to the bottom of the mystery is disturbing as a would-be rescuer arrives. Nice production values. In theaters.

March 21: The live-action musical “Snow White” (above) revisits the 1937 animated gem based on the Brothers Grimm classic. Rachel Zegler (“West Side Story”) is in the title role; Gal Gadot co-stars as the evil Queen, with Ansu Kabia as the Huntsman. In theaters.

— Bill Knight