Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Arkansas’ best young artists show work at Arts Center
The 57th Young Arkansas Artists Exhibition, showcasing the talents of Arkansas K-12 students, goes on display Tuesday at the Arkansas Arts Center in MacArthur Park, East Ninth and Commerce streets, Little Rock.
A Family Festival and awards ceremony, 11:30 a.m. Saturday in the arts center’s Lower Lobby Lecture Hall, will honor Grand Juror Michael Shaeffer’s choices of the best in class winners and two honorable mentions for each grade and the recipients of the Mid-Southern Watercolorists Award for Achievement in Watercolor and Ray Smenner Award for Achievement in Painting, both chosen by Shaeffer, and the Arkansas Art Educators Association’s Teacher’s Choice awards. Activities for children of all ages will be available, 10-11:30 a.m. in the center’s Alice Pratt Brown Atrium.
For the exhibition, a panel of art professionals picked the top works from each grade — 104 works, representing 63 schools in 31 cities — from 492 works in a variety of media entered by 142 public and private school educators, homeschool educators and private art instructors. Sponsors are HoganTaylor LLP, Ces and Drew Kelso and Dale and Lee Ronnel. Awards sponsors are Arkansas Children’s Hospital and the Mid-Southern Watercolorists.
The exhibition will be up through July 22. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. Call (501) 372-4000 or visit the website, arkansasartscenter. org.
High Price work
The Fort Smith Symphony and conductor John Jeter will give the world premiere of the Symphony No. 4 by Arkansas native Florence Price, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, ArcBest Corp. Performing Arts Center, 55 S. Seventh St., Fort Smith. The program also includes Price’s Symphony No. 1. Tickets are $40 and $45, $17 and $22 for students. Call (479) 452-7575, Extension 1, or visit fortsmithsymphony.org.
Price (1887-1953), raised in Little Rock, was the first black female composer to have a symphony performed by a major American orchestra. Jeter and the orchestra will be the first to record Price’s complete cycle of four symphonies, which it will do for Naxos International, its fourth project with the label, shortly after the concert.
Charlie Daniels Band
Country Music Hall of Fame performer Charlie Daniels and the Charlie Daniels Band perform at 7 p.m. Thursday at Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St. Tickets are $30-$75 plus fees. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit waltonartscenter.org.
Architecture lecture
Architects David Porter, Reese Rowland, Wesley Walls, Steve Kinzler and Joe Stanley will take part in a panel discussion titled “Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects, a 40-Year Legacy,” 6 p.m. Tuesday in the lower level Lecture Hall, Arkansas Arts Center, 501 E. Ninth St, Little Rock. A 5:30 reception precedes the multimedia presentation, which is part of the the Architecture and Design Network’s 2017-18 June Freeman Lecture Series. Admission is free. Call (501) 952-7274 or (479) 243-8232 or email popitz@polkstanleywi lcox.com, hdavis@polkstanley wilcox.com or archdesign network@gmail.com.
Rock and metal
Rock band Primus (bassist/ vocalist Les Claypool, guitarist Larry “Ler” LaLonde and drummer Tim “Herb” Alexander) and heavy metal band Mastodon (singer and bass guitarist Troy Sander, singer and guitarist Brent Hinds, singer and drummer Brann Dailor and guitarist and backing singer Bill Kelliher) perform at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Walmart AMP, 5079 W. Northgate Road, Rogers, part of the 2018 Cox Concert Series.
Opening acts are All Them Witches and JJUUJJUU. Gates open at 6. Tickets are $42.50$56.75 plus fees. Call (479) 4435600 or visit amptickets.com. Hound extended
Fayetteville theater company TheatreSquared has extended through May 27 the run of The Hound of the Baskervilles (a three-person cast playing out Steven Canny and John Nicholson’s comedic adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes classic), 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at Walton Arts Center’s Nadine Baum Studios, 505 Spring St., Fayetteville. The play is recommended for ages 8 and older, with parental guidance suggested, for occasional language. Tickets are $17-$48. Call (479) 443-5600 or (479) 445-6333 or visit theatre2.org.
TheatreSquared’s 2018-19 season, billed as its last at the Nadine Baum Studios before it moves into its new home across the street, adds Tuesday nights for the first time.
The lineup:
■ Aug. 22-Sept. 23: Once (music and lyrics by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, book by Enda Walsh, based on the motion picture by John Carney), the 2012 Tony Award winner for best musical.
■ Oct. 10-Nov. 4: Skeleton Crew, comedy-drama by Dominique Morisseau
■ Nov. 28-Dec. 30: Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, a follow-up to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice by Margot Melcon and Lauren Gunderson
■ Jan. 16-Feb. 10: Every Brilliant Thing, one-person comedy by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe
■ Feb. 27-March 24: The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe, finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
■ March 28-April 9: Arkansas New Play Festival, with performances at TheatreSquared and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville ■ May 1-26, 2019: The Legend of Georgia McBride by Matthew Lopez
Six-play season packages are $97-$293. Call (479) 5712785 or visit theatre2.org/subscribe.
Seinfeld at Orpheum
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld will perform at 7 p.m. June 29 at the Orpheum Theatre, 203 N. Main St., Memphis. Tickets are $67.50-$175 plus processing fees. Call (901) 525-3000 or visit orpheum-memphis.com and Ticketmaster.com.
Gee Wiz!
Two eastern Arkansas high schools have earned nominations for the 2018 Orpheum Theatre High School Musical Theatre Awards, both for Oz-related shows.
■ Wynne High School’s production of The Wizard of Oz, for outstanding featured actor (Jalen Nickerson as the Wizard), outstanding costumes, outstanding set, outstanding artistic element (the Umbrella Poppies) and outstanding front of house.
■ The Wiz at Blytheville High School, for outstanding small ensemble” (Dorothy, Tin Man, Scarecrow, Lion).
Nearly 30 schools in eastern Arkansas, western Tennessee and northern Mississippi were nominated. The awards ceremony will take place 7 p.m. May 24 at the Orpheum in Memphis. Tickets are $15$40. Call (901) 525-3000 or visit orpheum-memphis.com.
As part of the Broadway League Foundation’s Jimmy Awards, the best actress and best actor winners from 40 programs from across the country head to New York for a weeklong theater intensive of coaching and rehearsals with industry professionals in preparation for a one-nightonly talent showcase, June 25 at the Minskoff Theatre on Broadway.