With the November 15 event featuring free admission, drawings, popcorn, and a Q&A with filmmaker Sally Aitken, River Action will host a sneak preview of its 2027 Quad City Environmental Film Festival at Davenport's St. Ambrose University, the afternoon featuring the announcement of the season's titles and a special screening of the documentary Every Little Thing.

An official selection at the WRPN Women's International Film Festival and the Best Cinematography victor at the AltFF Alternative Film Festival, director Jacinta Lagos' lauded documentary Allowed to Birth: The Journey of a Global Midwife enjoys a special screening at Davenport venue The Last Picture House, the November 18 event presented by Encompass Midwifery and Wonders of Nature Midwifery boasting a post-show Q&A with the film's featured midwife Kristine Lauria.

Wrapping up the year (and beginning the next one) with an exhibit of bold colors, arresting images, and gorgeously tactile sculpture, the Quad City Arts International Airport Gallery will house works in the exhibit Marquis, Moseley, & Smith from November 4 through January 4, this beautiful collection boasting paintings by Jeremy Marquis, small ceramics by Aaron Moseley, and mixed-media pieces by Corrine Smith.

Speaking about and signing copies of her new book The Couple with the Pitchfork: American Gothic from Easel to Icon, renowned American-art and cultural historian Wanda Corn makes a special appearance at Davenport's Figge Art Museum on November 19, the event also featuring Dr. Ranelle Knight-Lueth, director of the Grant Wood Catalogue Raisonné project.

Based on the Oscar-winning modern classic that stands as one of the highest-grossing animated films of all time, Disney's Frozen enjoys a Quad City Music Guild presentation at Moline's Prospect Park Auditorium November 13 through 22, this magical family enchantment a three-time Tony Award nominee hailed by The Guardian for its "theatrical razzmatazz" and "sense of a real, beating heart in the relationship between the two tortured sisters."

A masterpiece of brooding intensity and dark laughs that introduced the world to the adage "Hell is other people," Nobel Prize winner Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit closes the 2026 season at Moline's Playcrafters Barn Theatre, its November 13 through 22 run treating audiences to a work the Oxford Culture Review deemed "complex and dark ... convincing and enticing."

Hailed by the New York Times as a family musical "that knows exactly what it's doing" and "works perfectly," the Tony-nominated A Year with Frog & Toad enjoys a November 13 through 14 run at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts, this stage charmer performed by the student talents of Footliter Imagination Studio's Youth Theatre.

With the screening boasting a visit by the author whose works were adapted into the hit thrillers Bird Box and Other Mommy, Davenport's The Last Picture House will host a November 10 showing of the forthcoming documentary To All the Books, the event featuring special guest Josh Malerman in a post-show book signing and Q&A led by venue co-owners and filmmakers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods.

Winner of four 1968 Tony Awards, including Best Play, and hailed by the New York Daily News as "a stimulating, funny, imaginative comedy," Tony and Oscar winner Tom Stoppard's Hamlet "companion" Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead opens the 2026-27 mainstage season at Augustana College's Brunner Theatre Center, the New York Times adding that this long-lauded work is "very funny, very brilliant, very chilling."

From November 12 through 15, magic, mystery, and adventure will take center stage at the University of Dubuque's Heritage Center, when William Shakespeare's The Tempest enjoys a student-acted production freshly adapted by Sunil Malapati, PhD, professor of chemistry at Clarke University.

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