Inviting music fans to explore complex layers of the human experience and enjoy an intimate evening full of magic and feeling, Davenport venue Common Chord will host a November 4 Songs & Stories concert event featuring Alicia Michilli, Angela Meyer, and David G. Smith, this singer/songwriter series designed to transport listeners into the mind of artists as they guide the audience through the emotional atmospheres that shape their sounds.

A 1957 film classic currently ranked by Internet Movie Database voters as the fifth-greatest movie of all time, Sidney Lumet's riveting 12 Angry Men will be given a fresh spin at Moline's Playcrafters Barn Theatre from November 4 through 13, with 12 Angry Jurors delivering a gender-blended take on a work described by the New York Times as a "taut, absorbing, and compelling drama that reaches far beyond the close confines of its jury-room setting."

A surreal thriller and pitch-black comedy that will enjoy four performances in the days before Halloween, the student-produced The Pitchfork Disney will run October 27 through 30 in Augustana College's Honkamp Myhre Black Box Theatre, author Philip Ridley's work lauded by London Theatre as a play “for those who completely and wholly enjoy confrontational and edgy theatre. If you’re looking for a chilling play that will haunt you for the next 24 hours in the best possible way, then you’d better pick up some tickets."

A gifted blues, funk, and soul saxophonist/singer/songwriter who has won two Blues Music Awards from seven nominations, Vanessa Collier plays Rock Island's Hauberg Civic Center Mansion in an October 26 concert co-presented by the Mississippi Valley Blues Society, her most recent album Heart on the Line a work in which, according to Rock and Blues Muse, the artist "stamps her own mark with bright and breezy production and, of course, a healthy dose of sax."