A theatrical musical event boasting the combined talents of father-and-son team John and Jonathan Lyons, the touring sensation Elvis Through the Years lands at Mt. Carroll's Timber Lake Playhouse on November 16, this rock-and-roll showcase designed to capture the essence of a young Elvis from his appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show right on through to the King's legendary comeback special from 1968.

On November 21, patrons of the Figge Art Museum are invited to enjoy a fascinating screening of select NFTs (non-fungible tokens) from visual artist Leo Villareal's series Cosmic Bloom, which is featured in his current Davenport exhibition Interstellar, a series that reflects the ordered randomness found in nature starting with simple geometric forms that evolve into complex, arresting layers.

Hailed by the Chicago Sun-Times as "altogether wise, profoundly humane, hilarious, quirky, endearing and, in countless clever ways, brilliantly faithful to its source," playwright Aaron Posner's savagely funny comedy Life Sucks makes its Quad Cities debut at Moline's Playcrafters Barn Theatre from November 15 through 24, this brilliant riff on Anton Chekhov's legendary Uncle Vanya also inspiring DC Theatre Scene to state, "Life sucks, maybe, but watching the Posner play is pure bliss."

Coupling the intentional carved marks of 15th-century wood engravings with the bold shapes and composition of early-20th-century expressionist woodcuts, Joseph Lappie's art exhibition Die Hoffnung der Pflanzen: The Hope of Plants will be on display at Davenport's German American Heritage Center through February 23, delivering a hand-colored contemporary portrayal of personal herbology, or the assumed language of a plant and its individual meaning to a person.