Performing his multi-media love letter to rural America Fogottttonia, a show that former Quad City Arts executive director Kevin Maynard said "felt like being in the audience of Prairie Home Companion," singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and storyteller Chris Vallillo plays Galesburg's Orpheum Theatre on November 23. The musician was the recipient of a 1986 Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship Award for music composition and nominee for the Illinois Arts Council’s 1987 Governor’s Award for Individual Artist.

There are at least two things that Calvin Vo and T Green – best-known for their slacker-buddy slapsticks featuring alter egos Johnny and Fungus – won't be delivering with their new Haus of Ruckus show. “It's not a Johnny-and-Fungus play,” says Green.

Delivering the charm that only a light comic opera can bring, Moline's Black Box Theatre will host a special, two-night engagement of Opera Quad Cities' La serva padrona, composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's hour-long operatic entertainment known as a model for the opera buffa genre and a quintessential piece bridging the Baroque and the Classical periods.

On November 24, Dave Meier, curator for the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum in Walcott, Iowa, will share local history, industry connections, innovation, and engineering feats of the last century in Trucking: A Lifeline Across America, a program in the German American Heritage Center's popular "Kaffee und Kuchen" series boasting discussion on trucking in America through the years and the impact of the Interstate Highway System.

Both the funniest and saddest Cinderella tale you've ever seen, writer/director Sean Baker's Anora is a great movie with some great big problems.

Thanks to a wealth of talent onstage and behind the scenes, Miracle on 34th Street: The Musical is visually and aurally impressive. But Willson's material sometimes falls short of delightful.

Created in partnership with the Smithsonian Institute’s Traveling Exhibit team, the illuminating and engaging immersive exhibition Hubble Telescope: New Views of the Universe will be on display at Davenport's Putnam Museum & Science Center through January 26, this fascinating, family-themed exhibit designed to be constantly updated with the newest imagery and technology coming from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes.

During a week in which liberty and justice are on the minds of many Americans, it is very fitting that a newly formed Justice Choir of the Midwest is preparing for its inaugural concert on Sunday, November 10 at 6:30 p.m. at Davenport's First Presbyterian Church (1702 Iowa Street).

You may think blending the exquisite classical beauty of the Nutcracker ballet with the gritty urban energy of hip hop would be like oil and water. Yet The Hip Hop Nutcracker – making its Quad Cities debut at Davenport's Adler Theatre (136 East Third Street) on November 27 – has entertained audiences nationwide since 2013. The beloved holiday story and enchanting music, paired with staggeringly limber breakdancers, will be performed as part of a tour to more than 25 U.S. cities.