Clinton school to screen NLR native’s documentary
The University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, in partnership with the Arkansas Cinema Society, will screen The Workers Cup, North Little Rock native Adam Sobel’s documentary about the migrant workers in Qatar who are building the facilities for the 2022 World Cup, 6 p.m. Monday, Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., Little Rock.
Sobel will take part in a post-screening discussion. The film was named best sports documentary at the recent Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. Admission is free. Reserve a seat by calling (501) 683-5239 or by emailing publicprograms@clintonschool.uasys.edu.
Gentlemen Trio
Classical/crossover ensemble The Gentlemen Trio — tenors Casey Elliott, Brad Robins and Bradley Quinn Lever — perform at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the ArcBest Corp. Performing Arts Center, Fort Smith Convention Center, 55 S. Seventh St., Fort Smith. Tickets are $25 and $27. Call (479) 7887300 or visit uafs.edu.
The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith will also host a concert of Latin American music, titled “Cuando Tenga La Tierra: Latin American Music and Its Protest Song,” featuring Dutch flutist and singer Francine van Dam, guitarist William Reyes, bassist Andrew Thompson and percussionist Fernando Valencia, 3 p.m. Saturday in the theater of its Windgate Art & Design building, 535 N. Waldron Road, Fort Smith. The concert is part of the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith’s Season of Entertainment 37. Admission is free. Call (479) 788-7970 or email rosario.nolasco-schultheiss@uafs.edu.
Violin-piano recital
Pianist Norman Boehm, a faculty member at Hendrix College, and violinist Hal Grossman, on the faculty at University of Oklahoma, will premiere Boehm’s Poem (a transcription of a vocalise he wrote in 1999) in a recital, 7:30 p.m. Monday, Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Building, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock.
The program also includes the Sonatina in G major by Antonin Dvorak; Violin Sonata No. 6 in A major, op.30 No. 1, by Ludwig van Beethoven; and the Mazurka No. 2, “The Bagpipe Player,” by Henryk Wieniawski. Admission is free. Call (501) 569-3294.
Arkansas premiere
Residents of a Jewish home for the aged in the Bronx, cranky, argumentative about their surroundings and each other, decide to change their perspective and respect for one another by play-acting famous people in Every Day a Visitor by Richard Abrons.
Arkansas Public Theatre will stage the play’s Arkansas premiere, 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and Nov. 9-11 and 2 p.m. Nov. 5 and 12 at Victory Theater, 116 S. Second St., Rogers. Doors open at 7 p.m. Cabaret seats are $25, $45 for a table of two, $18 for balcony seats. Call (479) 631-8988 or visit arkansaspublictheatre.org.
Dia de los Muertos
The Arts Center of the Ozarks, the Latin Art Organization of Arkansas, Downtown Springdale Alliance and Potluck Arts present the second annual Celebracion del Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead Celebration), Wednesday-Saturday in downtown Springdale.
The lineup includes a Galeroa Ofrendas/Altar Exhibition, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. each day at the arts center, 214 S. Main St., with tours and conversations, noon and 2 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday . Admission is free.
At 4:30 p.m. Friday, artists will be painting faces at Shiloh Square with music and Mexican treats; a Catrina Processional from Shiloh Square to the arts center starts at 6 p.m. Ballet Folklorico will perform at 7 p.m. Friday at the arts center. Admission is by free ticket.
Mexico’s Triciclo Rojo (Red Tricycle), a contemporary circus/dance company, performs Vagabond, 3 and 7 p.m. Saturday at the arts center. Tickets are $1.
The festival will also include workshops in clowning and papier mache and sugar-skull painting, Monday-Thursday; for details and registration, visit acozarks. org. Call (479) 751-5441. Blood Wedding
A wedding is about to unite two families in a rural town in Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca, which Ouachita Baptist University’s theater arts department will stage, 8 p.m. Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and Nov. 6 and 2:30 p.m. Nov. 5 in Verser Theatre, OBU, 410 Ouachita St., Arkadelphia.
The show is one of several the department is reviving to mark the theater’s 50th anniversary. A reception for the cast and crew members from the 1968-1969 production of the play will follow the Saturday performance in the theater lobby. Tickets are $10. Call (870) 245-5555.
INC series
The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra will open its Intimate Neighborhood Concerts series with “Picture Perfect,” 7 p.m. Jan. 18 at Calvary Baptist Church, 5700 Cantrell Road, Little Rock. Soprano Keely Futterer will solo in Knoxville: Summer of 1915 by Samuel Barber. The program will also include the Three Botticelli Pictures by Ottorino Respighi and the Much Ado About Nothing suite by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Philip Mann conducts.
The rest of the lineup (all concerts at 7 p.m.):
March 8: “Strings Attached,” Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 310 W. 17th St., Little Rock. Geoffrey Robson conducts. Soloists include Katherine Reynolds and Ryan Mooney, three violinists and viola da gamba players to be announced. Adam Schoenberg: Slo-Mo; Henri Vieuxtemps: Elegy for Viola and Strings; J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat major; Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Three Violins in F major.
May 3: “Around the Horn,” St. James United Methodist Church, 321 Pleasant Valley Drive, Little Rock. Mann conducts; Ed Owen, tuba. George Frideric Handel: Overture to Samson; Jan Koetsier: Concertino for Tuba and String Orchestra; Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 31 in D major, “Horn Signal.”
Season subscriptions are $57. Individual tickets are $29, $10 for students and military, with a $10 discount for members of the host venues (including congregation, staff, family, friends). Call (501) 666-1761 or visit ArkansasSymphony.org.
Summer Shakespeare
A pancake breakfast, 8 a.m.noon Nov. 5 at Stoby’s, 805 Donaghey Ave., Conway, benefits the Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre. Cost — $5 — includes all-you-can-eat pancakes, sausage and milk or juice.
William Shakespeare’s late romance The Winter’s Tale will be the organization’s outdoor production, one of four it will have in repertory in its 12th season, June 8-July 8. Performances will be on the lawn in front of McAlister Hall, University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway.
The rest of the lineup, all in the university’s Reynolds Performance Hall: Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady; Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part One; and a family-friendly adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, which will also tour the state.
Tickets go on sale April 1. Call (501) 852-0702, email contact@arkshakes.com or visit arkshakes.com.
So you promise yourself that even if all the deceased Beatles were to come back to life, you’ll just stick to watching YouTube concert clips. Or those texted or posted on social-media by those with more stamina.
Until you hear about that doggone Beatles tribute concert.
Sorry, knees.
hwilliams@arkansasonline.com