On October 30, Davenport's Raccoon Motel will host one of the most singular artists yet to headline this downtown venue, with outsider artist, musician, painter, puppeteer, and actor David Liebe Hart, the entertainer best-known for appearances on Adult Swim's Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, performing bizarre puppetry and singing in a variety of voice characterizations.

With its lead vocalist and keyboard player Karalyne Winegarner lauded by Glide magazine as a talent who "commands your attention like Freddie Mercury working the crowd in an arena," the indie rockers of Flight Attendant headline a Halloween-night concert at davenport's Raccoon Motel, their October 31 set sure to demonstrate why Rolling Stone proclaimed, "Flight Attendant delivers an experience."

With its songs by theatre legend Stephen Schwartz and its original life-size puppets created by West Liberty's Eulenspiegel Puppet Theatre Company, Disney's My Son Pinocchio Jr. serves as the 2024-25 season opening for the students talents of Young Footliters Youth Theatre, the one-act show's October 18 through 20 run at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts treating audiences to a brand-new take on the beloved cartoon masterpiece.

A three-time Tony Award nominee that stands as one of the most popular, enduring, and beloved comedies on the résumé of playwright Neil Simon, the vaudeville salute The Sunshine Boys enjoys an October 18 through 27 engagement at Moline's Playcrafters Barn Theatre, this 1972 Broadway smash inspiring a run of 538 performances and an Oscar-winning movie adaptation.

An elegant evening at Davenport's Figge Art Museum and one of the most annually popular fundraising events in the Quad Cities, this year's Soirée: A Night in Italy will, on October 19, find Quad City Symphony Orchestra musicians Emily Nash, Madelin Capistran, Bruno Vaz Da Sila, and Laura Shaw performing in a special event boasting a cocktail hour, dinner, and live auction with Maestro Mark Russell Smith as auctioneer to benefit the QCSO’s education programs.

If Halloween is approaching, it must be time for that annual theatrical command: “Let's do the 'Time Warp' again!” Consequently, the Circa '21 Speakeasy will stage its ninth-annual presentation of the cult-musical smash The Rocky Horror Show from October 18 through 27, treating audiences to live performances of classic songs in this nutty, interactive experience that has been delighting show regulars and virgins alike for more than half a century.

A wide variety of artworks – thoughtful, arresting, disturbing, even hilarious – by nearly four dozen area artists will be on display at the Quad City Arts Center through December 6, with the Rock Island venue presenting a series of fascinating takes on the prompt of the exhibit's title: “It's Fine. Everything Is Fine.”

On October 24, a Golden Globe and Directors Guild of America nominee – and the director of 1993's Oscar-winning smash The Fugitive will be of guest of The Last Picture House in the Davenport venue's An Evening with Andrew Davis, a special evening for movie fans featuring a signing of Davis' first novel (co-written by Davenport author Jeff Biggers), a screening of Davis' 1989 thriller The Package, and a Q&A with the filmmaker afterward.

Their Midwestern tour having already taken the exhilarating performance troupe to Nebraska and Missouri before heading to Illinois and Indiana, the multi-faceted talents of A Taste of Ireland land in Iowa with an October 18 stop at the Adler Theatre, with audiences invited to laugh, cry, and jig into the night during a thrilling production designed to be Celtic for a whole new generation.

Touring in support of their fifth and most recent album Elsewhere, a work that Kerrang! said "sees the band experimenting even more and wearing their varied influences on their sleeves, whether it's R&B, hip-hop, or 2000s pop," pop-rock outfit Set It Off headlines an October 19 concert at Davenport's Redstone Room, their latest recording also inspiring Crucial Rhythm to state that the musicians "continue to prove they have plenty left in the tank, and they're here to stay."

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