The Quad Cities’ theatre season is beginning to wind down for the year. So it follows that the holiday season must be ramping up, and the final production of Quad City Music Guild’s 76th season, Irving Berlin's White Christmas, is staged with plenty of charm by director Kevin Pieper, offering a pleasant-enough teaser of the tidings to come.

On November 20, a beloved animated special will come to delightful theatrical life when the touring production of A Charlie Brown Christmas: Live on Stage lands at Davenport's Adler Theatre, this 90-minute entertainment filled with all the memorable characters, crises, and music that made the television version a cherished holiday perennial.

A beloved romantic comedy that will be sung in Italian and presented in a production focused on opulence, travel, and the perils of modern dating, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's legendary opera Così fan tutte serves as the 2024-25 season opener for the University of Iowa School of Music's opera program, this new take on classic material – running November 15 through 17 at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts – directed by Abbigail Coté and conducted by Kenny Lee.

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."