Watch for British bits ‘Best Medicine’ on Fox and ‘The Game’ on Britbox; Al Pacino in ‘Deadman’s Wire’ and Jodie Foster in ‘A Private Life’ as well as the First Lady in ‘Melania’ hit theaters; Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are in ‘The Rip’ on Netflix and ‘Game of Thrones’ spinoff ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ is on HBO Max
“Cover-Up” is about investigative journalist Seymour M. Hersh, who won the Pulitzer for reporting on the My Lai massacre, and “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery” is on Netflix. “The First Snow of Fraggle Rock” is on Apple TV+. “Percy Jackson & The Olympiads in a Sea of Monsters” is featured on Disney+, “Avatar: Fire and Ash” and Neil Diamond film “Song Sung Blue” in theaters
Peoria Area Civic Chorale presents “Sing On!” at Five Points Washington; Bradley’s Dingeldine Music Center will be shaking with five events May 2-5; Cousin Eddie performs May 23 at the Contemporary Art Center for “Live at the Five Spot.” The Peoria International Choir will perform at First Christian Church. Vocalist Stephanie Aaron is at Trailside Event Center for the Central Illinois Jazz Society’s monthly production.
“Four Seasons” is a star-studded series about three couples on Netflix. “Thunderbolts” might be Marvel mimicking DC’s “Suicide Squad,” but its cast and transitional place in the MCU makes for eccentric anti-heroes; “Hummingbirds of Hollywood” is an episode of “Nature” on PBS, focusing on a woman who cares for injured hummingbirds in the heart of Hollywood
Community Foundation of Central Illinois, Kidder Music honored; Humanities Center in Elmwood earns Arts Dollars
Check out what’s streaming and being broadcast on your screens, like “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” on Disney+, a look a Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes on PBS, and Lion King prequel “Mufasa” and Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” in theaters. Read all about it
Symphonic Winds and Symphonic Band and Bradley Symphonic Orchestra playing at Dingeldine Music Center; Derel Monteith Trio at Trailside; ‘Waitress’ at Eastlight Theatre; ‘The Color Purple’ at Peoria Players; ‘The Cake’ at ICC’; plus classes, lectures and what’s on our screens
Open mic “Whisper and Shout,” returns to Contemporary Art Center; annual Art & Craft Fair, rain or shine, at the Hayloft Shops in Mossville; Peoria Art Guild’s Fine Art Fair scheduled for Sept. 28- 29 on the Riverfront; “Artrageous” comes to Five Points Washington; “Music in the Park,” hosted by Fon Du Lac library; plus classes, lectures and what’s on your screens
