Author: Beth Wagner Townsend

$400,000 in state funding launches $1.5 million push to ‘re-restore’ landmark theater for 100th anniversary April 19, 2026 ROCKFORD — Friends of the Coronado announced today that $400,000 in funding designated by State Senator Steve Stadelman will repair decorative plaster work that’s showing its age 25 years after the national landmark’s 2001 grand re-opening.Ornamental plaster […]

Thousands of local fourth-grade students will experience the electrifying moves of Ailey II: The Next Generation of Dance at the historic Coronado Theatre as Friends of the Coronado presents its 23rd free Reach for the Stars program. “Over nearly a quarter century now, tens of thousands of school children have witnessed mesmerizing artistic performances in […]