A comedian, actor, writer, and musician whose diverse accomplishments include a chart-topping comedy album, writing credits on TV's Archer and The Late Late Show with James Corden, and acting roles on Arrested Development, New Girl, and Drunk History, creator Ben Hoffman's stage alter ego Wheeler Walker Jr. brings "The Spread Eagle Tour" to East Moline venue The Rust Belt on October 26, his 2016 Redneck Shit the first album in more than a decade to debut on the Billboard Hot Country Albums chart and Billboard Top Comedy Albums chart simultaneously.

A Tony Award nominee and Olivier Award winner widely considered one of legendary author Harold Pinter's finest stage achievements, the romantic drama Betrayal serves as the first student-produced presentation in Augustana College's 2023-24 theatre season, its October 26 through 28 run sure to demonstrate why this chronologically inventive drama was praised by the New York Times as a work that "balances surface elegance with an aching profundity."

Touring in support of the August release of their studio-album debut El Comienzo, the gifted musicians of Grupo Frontera – an American ensemble who specialize in regional Mexican tunes – make their first-ever trip to the Quad Cities on October 21, the band's Adler Theatre engagement treating audiences to talents who have amassed seven U.S. Billboard chart-topping singles over the past two years alone.

Boasting numerous chart-topping albums on the iTunes Blues Chart and top-10 smashes on Billboard's Blues, Heatseekers, and Tastemaker charts, the roots and country-blues musicians of The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band headline an October 21 concert event as Davenport's Redstone Room, their discography including such hits as So Delicious, Poor Until Payday, Between the Ditches, and 2021's Dance Songs for Hard Times.