Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
South on Main opens stage to Meshugga Klezmer Band
The Meshugga Klezmer Band will liven up the middle of the week with its repertoire of European Jewish melodies, 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at South on Main, 1304 S. Main St., Little Rock. The performance is part of the restaurant’s Sessions series. There is a $10 cover charge. Call (501) 244-9660 or visit southonmain.com.
Bluegrass Monday
Knoxville, Tenn.-based Kip and Jerry’s Rocky Road Show will offer an evening of bluegrass, 7 p.m. Monday at Collins Theatre, 120 W. Emerson St., Paragould, part of Jonesboro public radio station KASU-FM, 91.9’s Bluegrass Monday series. Admission is free; the station passes the hat to pay the band and there is a suggested $5 donation. Doors open at 6 p.m. Terry’s Cafe, 201 S. Pruett St., Paragould, will open its pre-concert catfish buffet meal at 4:30 p.m. Call (870) 972-2367.
Rhonda & Rage
Bluegrass singer/songwriter Rhonda Vincent and the Rage will perform a concert benefiting the Fort Smith Girls Shelter, 7 p.m. Saturday at the ARCBest Corporation Performing Arts Center, 55 S. Seventh St., Fort Smith. Tickets are $20 and $25 plus fees. Call (800) 965-9324 or visit the website, tinyurl.com/hnqwcvw.
Modern comedy
Two women — one who, after graduate school built a career as a rock-star academic, and the other a wife and mother — begin a dangerous game as each tries to claim the other’s territory in the modern comedy Rapture, Blister, Burn by Gina Gionfriddo, a production of which Fayetteville theater company TheatreSquared will open on Thursday at Walton Arts Center’s Nadine Baum Studios, 505 W. Center St., Fayetteville. Curtain times: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday through April 24. The theater advises audience discretion for mature language and themes. The production is made possible in part with support from sponsors Susan and Orville Hall. Tickets are $15-$45 (with a limited number of seats $10 for patrons under 30). Call (479) 443-5600 or visit the website, theatre2.org.
VoiceJam finals
Contemporary a cappella ensembles from Taiwan; Philadelphia; Boston; Cincinnati; DeKalb, Ill.; Tallahassee, Fla.; Atkinson, Wis.; Brookline, Mass.; Eugene, Ore.; and Waco, Texas; will compete in the second annual VoiceJam, Friday-Saturday at Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St.
The Swingles (formerly the Swingle Singers) will headline the VoiceJam Professional Showcase, 8 p.m. Friday; tickets are $10, plus applicable fees. Deke Sharon hosts the VoiceJam Competition, 7 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $15-$25.
A two-day VoiceJam Festival Pass, which offers access to all events, including performances, competition and workshops, plus a VoiceJam goody bag, are $60. The VoiceJam Workshop and Class Pass, which includes access to all workshops and master classes, is $25.
All prices are plus applicable fees. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit the website, waltonartscenter.org/voicejam.
Quintette concert
The Lyrique Quintette — Ronda Mains, flute; Theresa Delaplain, oboe; Nophachai Cholthitchanta, clarinet; Lia Uribe, bassoon; and Timothy Thompson, French horn,; all faculty members at the University of Arkansas — will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Building, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. The program: Antonin Dvorak’s String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat major, op. 51, transcribed for the ensemble by Mark Popkin; an arrangement of Astor Piazzola’s “Le Grand Tango”; and Compass Kaleidoscope by McIlroy Visiting Professor Andrea Clearfield. Admission is free. Call (479) 575-4901.
Four-hands duo
Jazz piano four-hands duo Paolo Alderighi and Stephanie Trick will give a concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Reves Recital Hall, Hendrix College, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. Admission is free; attendees can make a “freewill offering.” Call (501) 450-1245 or krebs@hendrix.edu.
Album debut
Stops Along the Way, the new album by local singer/ songwriter Charlie Crow, will debut at 7 p.m. Monday at Khalil’s Pub & Grill, 110 S. Shackleford Road, Little Rock. Crow will perform “songs of loving, losing, longing and leaving” from the album. Rodger King is scheduled as the opening act. Admission is $10; proceeds benefit the Arkansas Prostate Cancer Foundation. Call (501) 554-1602 or email ccrow1962@att.net.
Desert Cities
Arkansas Public Theatre will stage Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz, 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday and April 7-9 and 2 p.m. April 3 and 10 at the Victory Theater, 116 S. Second St., Rogers. Doors and concessions open an hour before curtain. Cabaret seats are $30, $50 for a table for two; balcony seats are $17. Call (479) 631-8988 or visit the website, arkansaspublictheatre.org.
Henley’s Heart
Fort Smith Little Theatre, 401 N. Sixth St., Fort Smith, will stage Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley, with a gala opening night, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, and subsequent performances at 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday and April 6-9 and 2 p.m. Saturday and April 3. Opening-night tickets are $25; for all other shows, $10. Call (479) 783-2966.
Photographic ‘Layers’
The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith will hold a reception, 5-6 p.m. Wednesday for “Layers,” an exhibition of photographs by Kat Wilson, currently on display in the Smith-Pendergraft Campus Center, UAFS, 5210 Grand Ave., Fort Smith. Gallery hours are 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Friday. Admission to the reception and the exhibit are free. Call (479) 788-7300.
Camelot auditions
Benton’s Royal Players will hold auditions for Lerner & Loewe’s musical Camelot at 6:30 p.m. April 3 at the Royal Theatre, 111 S. Market St., Benton, and April 4 in the upstairs choir room of Benton’s First United Methodist Church, 200 N. Market St. (enter through the door at the circular driveway on the Conway Street side). Auditioners should prepare 32 bars of a song from or similar to Camelot and provide sheet music for the accompanist. Roles are available for performers 18 and older; there is one speaking role for a boy age 11-13. Callbacks, if necessary, will be April 5. D. Brent Miller will direct. Production dates are June 9-12 and 16-19. Call (501) 315-5483 or visit theroyalplayers.com.