Blues’ Cray, rock’s Foreigner to perform in NW Arkansas
Blues guitarist Robert Cray will perform with the Tulsa-based Steve Pryor Band at 8 p.m. Saturday at The Auditorium, 36 S. Main St., Eureka Springs. Cray’s best-known song is “Smoking Gun.”
Tickets are $55 and $75. Call (479) 253-7333 or visit the website, theauditorium.org.
Foreigner in Rogers
Foreigner will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion, 5079 W. Northgate Road, Rogers. Tickets are $29$53.50 plus handling fees. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit amptickets.com or arkansasmusicpavilion.com.
The band’s hits from the 1970s and 1980s include “Waiting for a Girl Like You,” “Cold as Ice” and “Feels Like the First Time.”
Two Guvnors
TheatreSquared will open its ninth season with the comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, a new adaptation by Richard Bean of the classic farce The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Walton Arts Center’s Nadine Baum Studios, 505 W. Spring St., Fayetteville.
Curtain times are 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and at 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday through Sept. 21. Tickets are $15-$38 (with a limited number of $10 tickets for patrons under 30 through the theater’s “30 Under 30” program). Call (479) 443-5600 or visit the website, theatre2. org.
Bluegrass family
The Harper Family — Dalton, Hannah, Gaylon, Katrina, Dillon and Makeena Harper — will headline radio station KASU-FM, 91.9’s “Bluegrass Monday” bluegrass gospel concert at 7 p.m. Monday at the Collins Theatre, 120 W. Emerson St., Paragould. The station will pass the hat to pay the group; suggested donation is $5 per person. Call (870) 972-2367 or email mscarbro@astate.edu.
Chorus convenes
Pulaski Technical College’s first community-based Festival Chorus will rehearse 7-9 p.m. Mondays in the Information Technology Center, Room 101B, Pulaski Tech Main Campus, 3000 W. Scenic Drive, North Little Rock.
The chorus is open to all singers in central Arkansas without auditions. The repertoire for a community performance sometime in November will range from gospel and jazz to video-game music and opera (including a selection from Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance). Michael Ekbladh directs.
A $25 membership fee helps cover the cost of the music, rehearsal and performance space and the accompanist. Call (501) 907-6670, Extension 3408 or register online at pulaskitech.edu/ continuing_education.
Who’s Who
Peter Capaldi assuming the role of the 12th Doctor on BBC America’s time-traveling series Doctor Who is a big enough deal that the show’s season premiere, “Deep Breath,” which debuted Saturday, will be on big screens — 7 and 9:30 p.m. Monday at the Breckenridge Village 12 in Little Rock and the McCain Mall 12 in North Little Rock. The screenings will include 15 minutes of “cinema exclusive bonus content.” Visit the website, FathomEvents.com, for tickets and ticket information.
Artspree season
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Artspree series opens at 3 p.m. Sept. 28 with a performance by the Kathakali Dance Drama with Indian dancer Kalamandalam Shanmukhan at the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Building, UALR, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock.
The performance will also feature a lecture by Indian scholar Viswanath Kaladharan.
The rest of the lineup (except as noted, all performances in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall):
Oct. 10: Drummer W.S. “Fluke” Holland and the W.S. Holland Band, in conjunction with the exhibit “Johnny Cash: Arkansas Icon,” 7:30 p.m., Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., Little Rock. Free.
March 1: Guitarist Anton Baranov, winner of the 2013 Guitar Foundation of America Tour Prize, 3 p.m.
April 10: “Carnival Show,” Trevor Wye, flute, assisted by pianist Kaeko Suzuki, 7:30 p.m.
Except as noted, tickets are $15, $10 for students. Funding for the series comes from the UALR Chancellor’s Circle Foundation and radio station KLRE-FM, 90.5. Call (501) 569-3294 or email music@ ualr.edu.
Newport series
Eagles tribute group 7 Bridges will open the Arkansas State University-Newport 2014-15 Patron Series with “The Ultimate Eagles Experience” at 7 p.m. Oct. 25 in the university’s Center for the Arts, 7648 Victory Blvd., Newport.
The rest of the lineup (all performances, 7 p.m., Center for the Arts):
Dec. 9: A Christmas Carol (musical), touring production of the Palace Theatre in Manchester, N.H., featuring 50 area high-school choir students.
April 18: Masters of Soul, 10-person ensemble, performing Motown hits.
Season tickets, $60, go on sale Sept. 1. Call (870) 5127802.