Closing the venue's 2024 season with a burst of wacky hilarity, Geneseo's Richmond Hill Barn Theatre will stage playwright Tim Kelly's My Son Is Crazy, but Promising from November 14 through 24, with the Brigham Young University Review stating that "Kelly has created a fun, screwball whodunit" boasting an "outlandish plot, amusing complications, and fun characters."

A winner on the competition program Ed McMahon’s Next Big Star also beloved for his frequent radio appearances on the syndicated The Bob & Tom Show, Greg Hahn brings his unique comedy stylings to Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Rhythm Room on November 14, his Web-site biography stating than in addition to being a TB&TS hallmark, "he is also a stalwart, another word he doesn’t know."

Continuing its series of popular “Kaffee und Kuchen” programs on November, the German American Heritage Center will present an afternoon of German Printmaking with Joseph Lappie. His print series Die Hoffung der PlaPflanzen, being showcased at the Davenport venue through February 23, couples the intentional carved marks of 15th-century wood engravings with the bold shapes and composition of early-20th-century expressionist woodcuts, the result being a hand-colored contemporary portrayal of personal herbology, or the assumed language of a plant and its individual meaning to a person.

With the Boston Globe deeming the film "as pure and plaintive as a mountain ballad" and the Los Angeles Times raving "it makes history sing," writer/director John Sayles' Oscar-nominated 1987 drama Matewan enjoys a special November 13 screening at Rock Island's Rozz-Tox, this celebrated work's local presentation co-hosted by Iowa General Membership Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World.