Arts Alerts: Cool music scene for cabin fever; nice playbill at area theaters

ART

The Peoria Riverfront Museum is exhibiting “FRESH: New Directions in Contemporary Art” featuring selections from Alice Walton’s Art Bridges Collection including current artists Rashid Johnson and Richard Prince, on display through September.

CINEMA

Opening Feb. 2, “Argylle” has a stellar cast including Bryce Dallas Howard, Catherine O’Hara, Henry Cavill, Bryan Cranston, Sam Rockwell, Samuel L. Jackson and John Cena in a story about a shy novelist who writes spy yarns, unexpectedly sucked into real-life espionage.
“Bob Marley: One Love” is a moving biopic about reggae pioneer Bob Marley. Starring Kingsley Ben-Adir in the title role, it premieres Feb. 14.

COMEDY

Sam Miller will perform at the Jukebox Comedy Club on Feb. 23-24.
A classic TV sitcom has been repackaged as a stage comedy, and “Golden Girls: The Laughs Continue” is slated for Feb. 29 at Peoria Civic Center

Cover band extraordinaire Revel in Red will catch Cabin Fever on Feb. 24 at Five Points Washington.

MUSIC

The Grammy Award-winning bluegrass trio Nickel Creek is playing the Peoria Civic Center Theater on Feb. 12.
The Peoria Symphony Orchestra will feature material by Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and others in a Romance program, with guest artist David Taylor, violin, Feb. 17 at the Peoria Civic Center Theater.
“Cabin Fever,” with Revel in Red, will be Feb. 24 at Five Points Washington.

STREAMING

“Mr. & Mrs. Smith” is a spy comedy based on the 2005 film, now starring Maya Erskine and Donald Glover, with John Turturo and Paul Dano. The eight-episode series starts on Feb. 2 on Prime.
“Avatar: The Last Airbender” is a live-action remake of the 2005-08 animated show. Scheduled to debut on Netflix on Feb. 22, the eight episode series stars Gordon Cormier as Aang.

TELEVISION

THEATER

“Something Rotten,” directed by Steve Bortolotti, will be presented Feb. 2-4 and 8-11 at Peoria Players Theatre.
Corn Stock Theatre is staging “Significant Other,” directed by Joel Shoemaker, Feb. 9-11 and 16-18.
Based on the 2004 film, the musical “Mean Girls,” with a book by Tina Fey, music by Jeff Richmond and lyrics by Nell Benjamin, is set for the Peoria Civic Center Theater on Feb. 21-22.
ICC’s Theatre Department is presenting the all-female comedy “Women Playing ‘Hamlet’,” about a woman cast as Shakespeare’s Prince of Denmark and realizing her nemesis is none other than Sir Patrick Stewart. Feb. 28-29 and March 2-3 at ICC’s Performing Arts Center.

— Compiled by Bill Knight