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."

A legendary holiday-film perennial and thrilling song-and-dance showcase for Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye will be brought to theatrical life when Quad City Music Guild closes the organization's 2024 season with Irving Berlin's White Christmas, its November 8 through 17 run treating audiences to a Tony-nominated treat featuring timeless Berlin hits in “Blue Skies,” “Happy Holiday,” “Let Me Sing and I'm Happy,” and “I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm.”

Opening its 2024-25 season of mainstage productions in the Brunner Theatre Center, Rock Island Augustana College will produce one of William Shakespeare's freshest and funniest titles in its November 14 through 17 presentation of The Comedy of Errors, a work that esteemed literary critic Harold Bloom said “reveals Shakespeare's magnificence at the art of comedy” and demonstrated “mastery in action, incipient character, and stagecraft.”

Delivering what the New York Times deemed "the subliminal potency of music, the head-scratching surprise of a modernist poem, and the cockeyed allure of a surrealist painting," Tony-nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice enjoys a November 7 through 10 staging by the University of Dubuque’s Department of Fine and Performing Arts, the Times adding that the genre-spanning show is a "devastatingly lovely – and just plain devastating – theatrical gloss on the Orpheus myth."