A dazzling, visually rich celebration of fascinating felines and the artists who love them, the Figge Art Museum exhibition Cats! can currently be viewed in the Davenport venue's third-floor gallery, and on October 23, a Scholar Talk on both the exhibit and the animal will be presented by Dr. Amy Freund and Dr. Michael Yonan, co-authors of the Journal18 article “Cats: The Soft Underbelly of the Enlightenment."

With the stage hit lauded by Broadway World as "entirely entertaining and enjoyable," the spooky, kooky, ooky musical-comedy version of The Addams Family brings its national tour to Davenport's Adler Theatre on October 16, this opener to the 2025-26 Broadway at the Adler series treating audiences to a Tony Award-nominated delight inspired by the beloved TV comedy and the iconic cartoon strip by series originator Charles Addams.

Praised by DC Theater Arts as "a genuine joy to watch," the family entertainment Junie B. Jones: The Musical enjoys an October 10 through 12 run at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts, the DC Theater Arts adding that the characters in this Barbara Park adaptation "say the silliest things and die on the hills of the most meaningless opinions, and in doing so, bring genuine belly laughs to the adults in the room."

With the Grammy-nominated artist a 2014 inductee in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame who last year was also elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame, An Acoustic Evening with John Anderson comes to Davenport's Adler Theatre on October 10, the guitarist/vocalist responsible for more than 40 singles on the Billboard country charts, including the number-one hits "Wild and Blue," "Swingin,'" "Black Sheep," "Straight Tequila Night," and "Money in the Bank."

A Grammy-winning Jamaican-American reggae musician who scored hits with the songs "It Wasn't Me," "Boombastic," "In the Summertime," "Oh Carolina," and "Angel," Shaggy brings his national tour to Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center on October 11, the artist famed for being the only diamond-selling dancehall artist in music history.

Globally touring sensations who have routinely sold out international theatres and concert halls since their 1999 debut, the talents of MANIA: The ABBA Tribute bring their stage spectacle back to Davenport's Adler Theatre on October 15, thrilling patrons with such iconic pop anthems and familiar Mamma Mia! tunes as “Dancing Queen,” “Waterloo,” “The Winner Takes It All,” and “Take a Chance on Me.”

Their October 12 event boasting works by composers Dvorák, Martinů, Mozart, Chopin, and Beethoven, Chamber Music Quad Cities opens its 2025-26 season at Davenport's Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Parish Hall with Recital X 3, in which Naumburg Award-winning violinist Grace Park performs alongside CMQC co-artistic directors Gregory Sauer on cello and Thomas Sauer on piano.

A member of underground hip-hop acts The ShotBlockers, KAOS 13, and FTW, as well as a founding member of hardcore bands Crown of Thornz, Skarhead, and Icepick, Danny Diablo headlines the October 11 concert event Underground Invasion 3 at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the artist praised by RapReviews for his "charismatic and commanding voice."

Known for wearing stage attire to honor their blue-collar Midwestern roots and bringing a tight, high-energy performance to every booking, the Quad Cities' alt-metal ensemble Alborn headlines a May 30 concert event at Moline's Rascals Live, this popular local outfit composed of Justin Taylor on guitar and lead vocals, Alex Raser on drums and vocals, Zame Lewis on bass, and Nate Guske on guitar and vocals.

Hailed by the SA Examiner as an artist who "has made a career of romanticizing the past, the human condition, and looking at love and relationships through dark-tinted lenses," Romanian American singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Vlad Holiday headlines an October 15 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, his 2024 debut album My Favorite Drug praised by Atwood magazine as "an intimate and all-consuming 'indie noir' record full of raw reflection and inner reckoning."

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