A collaborative art exhibition with a seasonally appropriate spooky theme, The Mysterious Disappearance of Miss Haylee will haunt Rock Island's Quad City Arts Center through December 1, this delightfully spine-tingling event blending the collective talents of area visual artists Heidi Hernandez and Bruce Walters alongside those of local author Michael McCarty.

Held in conjunction with the nationally touring Art & Activism at Tougaloo College, an exhibition celebration and curator talk will be held at Davenport's Figge Art Museum on October 12, the evening featuring a presentation by Turry M. Flucker, former Director and Curator of the Tougaloo College Art Collections and current Vice President of Collections and Partnerships at the Terra Foundation for American Art.

An enchanting story for all ages boasting a wonderful dose of humor, the majesty of classical ballet, and a fulfilled promise of “happily ever after," the nationally touring World Ballet Series' Cinderella brings their glass slippers to Davenport's Adler Theatre on October 11, this beautiful fairytale told by 40 professional dancers, and featuring gorgeous hand-painted sets and vivid hand-sewn costumes.

Interspersing his humorous observations on life with twisted, inventive, bizarre songs sung and played in a variety of styles, the genre-defying entertainer Heywood Banks takes the stage at Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Rhythm Room on October 12, his standup earning the artist first place in the Johnnie Walker Comedy Search Contest and his musical genres ranging from folk, to country to rock and beyond.

Participating in a special virtual program co-presented by the Rock Island Public Library and Illinois Libraries Present, a bestselling writer will tackle a seasonally appropriate genre in the October 4 online event Horror with Stephen Graham Jones, a conversation with the Blackfoot Native American fiction author whose most widely known works include the horror novels The Only Good Indians, My Heart Is a Chainsaw, and Night of the Mannequins.

A 2022 Tony Award winner that Variety magazine praised as "filled with depth and relatable characters," author Dominique Morisseau's drama Skeleton Crew enjoys its Quad Cities premiere at Moline's Playcrafters Barn Theatre from October 6 through 15, the lauded work also praised by the New Yor Times as "a swift, well-crafted look at factory workers trapped in an economic 'dumpster fire," and by the New Yorker as a work "bristling and jumping and speeding forward with skillful talk."

Lauded by DC Theater Arts as "a thrilling experience in theatergoing" and by the Wall Street Journal as a "fresh, theatrically potent spin on the novel," playwright Kate Hamill's witty, creepy, and macabre Dracula, a feminist revenge fantasy opens Augustana College's 2023-24 season in Rock Island, the production certain to demonstrate why New York Theatre Guide proclaimed the genre-bending stage work "biting in every sense of the word."

Opening their eagerly anticipated 2023-24 Masterworks season with performances at Davenport's Adler Theatre on October 7 and Augustana College's Centennial Hall on October 8, the sublime musicians of the Quad City Symphony Orchestra welcome, for their concert event Masterworks I: From Conflict to Courage, Cuban-American cellist Dr. Tommy Mesa, the artist having inspired New York Concert Review to rave, "Mr. Mesa’s playing had a musical intensity that was commanding in every detail.”

A three-time Grammy Award winner, Orville H. Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award winner, and member of the Long Island Music Hall of Fame, revered guitarist a singer/songwriter Brian Setzer brings his national "Rockabilly Riot!" tour to Davenport's Adler Theatre on October 12, the artist having achieved popular success with his 1950s-style rockabilly group Stray Cats, and well as his '90s swing-revival band the Brian Setzer Orchestra.

With their album Passage hailed by SonicAbuse as "deeply evocative and perfectly executed," the women-led world-fusion ensemble ADAAWE opens Quad City Arts' 2023-24 Visiting Artists Series with an October 7 concert event in Augustana College's Centennial Hall, their previous engagements including a performance at the California World Music Festival, a concert is Los Angeles' Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, and a booking at the Alex Theater with Emmy nominee Jasmine Guy and Oscar nominee Angela Bassett.

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