Performing his multi-media love letter to rural America Fogottttonia, a show that former Quad City Arts executive director Kevin Maynard said "felt like being in the audience of Prairie Home Companion," singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and storyteller Chris Vallillo plays Galesburg's Orpheum Theatre on November 23. The musician was the recipient of a 1986 Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship Award for music composition and nominee for the Illinois Arts Council’s 1987 Governor’s Award for Individual Artist.

A hilarious and endearing tale based on the best-selling book series by Barbara Park, Junie B. Jones in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells is set to delight audiences at Rock Island's Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse, the family comedy's November 26 through December 29 run treating family crowds to a show that led River Cities' Reader reviewer Thom White to rave, "I was legitimately laughing throughout the performance."

Boasting more than 25 years of experience dazzling audiences across the Midwest, a homegrown talent will amaze guests of Moline's Sound Conservatory with two presentations of David Casas: An Evening of Magic & Wonder, the November 23 and 24 events filled with mind-bending illusions, masterful sleight-of-hand, and plenty of interactive fun.

Created in partnership with the Smithsonian Institute’s Traveling Exhibit team, the illuminating and engaging immersive exhibition Hubble Telescope: New Views of the Universe will be on display at Davenport's Putnam Museum & Science Center through January 26, this fascinating, family-themed exhibit designed to be constantly updated with the newest imagery and technology coming from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes.