ENTERTAINMENT NOTES
Elsewhere in entertainment, events and the arts:
FRIDAY
Doubt in Jonesboro
Jonesboro’s Foundation of Arts stages Doubt by John Patrick Shanley, 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday Aug. 9-10 and 2 p.m. Sunday Aug. 11 in its “Stage, Too” black-box space, 328 S. Main St., Jonesboro. Tickets are $12; $10 for senior citizens, military and Arkansas State University students, faculty and staff; $8 for children 12 and younger. Call (870) 9352726 or visit foajonesboro.org.
SATURDAY
Boomtown Opry
Teen singers Moses Snow, Ameri Shaye, McKenzie Jones and Mason Halstead, plus Zane Glasscock, comedy duo Mike Means & Bill Meyer and the Silver Kickers dance team head the lineup for the Boomtown Opry, 7 p.m. Saturday at the El Dorado Municipal Auditorium, 100 W. Eighth St.. Tickets are $10 in advance (visit itickets.com), $15 at the door, $5 for children 12 and younger, free for children 5 and under. A portion of the proceeds benefits the El Dorado Boys & Girls Club. Call (870) 665-9315, email boomtownopry@outlook.com or visit the Facebook page, facebook.com/boomtownopry.
Artistic fundraiser
Cutwell 4 Kids holds its sixth annual fundraiser, “The Birth of an Artist,” 7-10 p.m. Saturday at Embassy Suites Hot Springs, 400 Convention Blvd., Hot Springs. The nonprofit provides arts and performance programs for children. The event will feature jazz and R&B performances and a sale of art by recent graduates of Hot Springs World Class High School, James Avery and featured entertainment Rock Town Youth Jazz Squad. Hors d’oeuvres will be served. Tickets are $20. Call (214) 497-3715, email c4kartclasses@gmail.com or visit tinyurl.com/y4r28zwu.
ETC.
Best-selling author
Susan Orlean, author of the best-sellers The Library Book and The Orchid Thief, will deliver the Central Arkansas Library System’s 2019 Fred K. Darragh Jr. Lecture, 6:30 p.m. Sept. 28 at the Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., Little Rock. Admission is free, but reservations are required. Call (501) 918-3098 or visit CALS.org.
Arts nominations
Sept. 6 is the deadline to nominate an individual, organization or business for the Arkansas Arts Council’s 2020 Governor’s Arts Awards, recognizing outstanding contributions to the arts in Arkansas. Nominations are open in the categories of Arts Community Development, Arts in Education, Corporate Sponsorship of the Arts, Folklife, Individual Artist, Patron and Lifetime Achievement. Nominees will be vetted by an independent panel of arts professionals; the recipients will be honored at a ceremony in the spring. Visit the arkansasarts.org or email Cheri Leffew at cheri.leffew@arkansas.gov.
AUDITIONS
Rep fall classes
Arkansas Repertory Theatre Education Department will hold auditions for its Teen Ensemble, a pre-professional performance class for high-schoolage singers, dancers and actors, 5-8 p.m. Monday at the Rep Annex, 518 Main St., Little Rock. Auditioners must prepare a 16-32 bar “cut” of a song (preferably from the musical-theater repertoire) and provide sheet music for the accompanist, plus a one-minute monologue. Spaces are limited. Email akimmell@therep.org for an audition slot. Classes run 7-9 p.m. Monday, Sept. 9-Nov. 11. Tuition is $225.
The lineup for the Rep’s nonauditioned fall classes (except as noted, all courses 10 weeks, at the Rep Annex):
■ Acting and Creative Movement (grades K-2), 4:30-5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10-Nov. 12. $170
■ Acting (grades 3-5), 4:30-5:45 p.m. Monday, Sept. 9-Nov. 11. $185
■ Musical Theater (grades 3-5), 4:30-5:45 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12-Nov. 14. $185
■ Theater Dance (grades 3-5), 4:30-5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 11-Nov. 13. $170
■ Theater Dance (grades 6-8), 5:45-7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 11-Nov. 13. $185
■ Acting (grades 6-8), 5:15-6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10-Nov. 12. $185
■ Musical Theater (grades 6-8), 5:30-6:45 p.m. Monday. $185
■ Preach! A Comedy Collage Class (grades 9-12), 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10-Nov. 12. $190
■ Theater Dance (grade 8-adult), 5:30-6:45 p.m. Monday, Sept. 9-Nov. 11. $185
■ Beginning Tap Dance (grade 8-adult), 5:45-6:45 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10-Nov. 12. Tap shoes required. $170
■ Intermediate Tap (grade 8-adult), 6-7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12-Nov. 14. Tap shoes required. $170
■ Shakespeare Scene Study (adult), 7-9 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16-Oct. 28 (seven weeks). Familiarity with scansion and rhetorical techniques in Shakespeare is required. $180
■ Intro to Playwriting (adult), 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10-Oct. 29 (eight weeks). $190
■ Improvisation (adult), 6-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 11-Nov.
13. $195
For the full class schedule, online registration, more information on each class and information on faculty, visit TheRep.org/Education.
TICKETS
Celtic Woman
Tickets — $39.50-$99.50 — are on sale for “Celtic Woman: The Best of Christmas,” 7:30 p.m. Dec. 16 at Little Rock’s Robinson Center Performance Hall, West Markham Street and Broadway. The four-woman ensemble is marking the Christmas season with its eighth annual “Symphony Tour,” accompanied by a full symphony orchestra. Visit ticketmaster.com or LiveNation.com.
Temps and Tops
Tickets — $47-$102 — go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for a concert by The Temptations and The Four Tops, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 2 at Robinson Center Performance Hall, West Markham Street and Broadway, Little Rock. Presenters are Celebrity Attractions and Exceptional Artists. Call (501) 244-8800 or visit Ticketmaster.com.