THEATER
‘For colorful girls …’
Actors Theater of Little Rock Stages of Ntozake Shange “for Colored Girls who planned the suicide / When the the Rainbow is engraving”, 7:30 pm Wednesday to Friday and 2 and 7:30 pm from Saturday April 26 at Methodist Church, Quapaw Quarter, 1601 Louisiana St., Little Rock. Tickets are $ 25, $ 20 for students, seniors and military tickets, in advance, via actorstrelr.org/tickets, $ 5 more at the door.
For “golden girls”
“Golden Girls: The Laughs Continue”, a Drag stage show by Robert Leleux based on the television series, takes two scenes from Arkansas this week:
7 p.m. Tuesday at Fort Smith Convention Center’s Arcbest Performing Arts Center, 55 S. Seventh St., Fort Smith. Tickets are $ 30 to $ 99. Visit Ticketmaster.com.
Thursday 7 p.m. in the Robinson Center performance room in Little Rock, 426 W. Markham St. in Broadway. Tickets are $ 34 to $ 64 (plus the tax and the costs); VIP tickets include a meeting after the show and a swag of tour – an official poster for tour and laminate with Longe. Visit Ticketmaster.com.
Sophia (Christopher Kamm) is freely on bail after being arrested by the drug application agency to run a drug ring for retirees. Blanche (Vince Kelley) and Rose (Adam Graber) founded Creakn, a flourishing sexual application for the elderly. And Dorothy (Ryan Bernier) tries to keep everything with the help of a new crazy sex lover (many) (preferred by Tommy).
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MUSIC
‘Timeless’ thongs’
The Master Violin of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Irvin, and the pianist Jaeyeon Park interpret the violin Sonata n ° 3 in D Minor, Op.108, by Johannes Brahms for the final concert of the musical series of the 2024 orchestra to 25 rock’s east village.
Also in the program, entitled “Timeless thongs”, violinist Magdalena Ryszkowski and the pianist Hee-Kyung Juhn play violin sonata n ° 1 in a major, op.13, by Gabriel Fauré. And the Rockefeller Quartet of the Orchestra – Trisha McGovern Freeney and Linnaea Brophy, violins; Katherine Reynolds, Alto; And Jacob Wunsch, cello – will perform the string quartet n ° 2 in minor of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
The tickets are $ 30 (subject to change if the tickets become rare), $ 15 for students and / or soldiers with a valid identity document. Call (501) 666-1761, ext. 1, or visit Arkansassassymphony.org.
Saxophonist concert
The jazz saxophonist nominated in Grammys, Troy Roberts, in residence Wednesday April 20 at the University of the Center of Arkansas, will give a concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the concert hall of the Windgate Center for Fine and Performing Arts, 2150 Bruce St. in Donaghey Avenue, Conway. Entrance is free with the donation of non-perishable food products for the UCA pantry.
Roberts’ residence includes master classes with UCA sets and individual students. Call (501) 450-3293, e-mail (Protected by e-mail) or visit UCA.edu/cahss/artists-in-residence.
Roberts, an Australian native living now in New York, argued Joey Defrancesco, Van Morrison, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Captain Black Band Band, Kurt Elling and Veronica Swift, Orrin Captain Evans. He published 15 recordings under his own name.
Sona season final
Pianist Stewart Goodyear Solos in “Rhapsody in Blue” by George Gershwin with the North West Symphony of Arkansas and Musical Director Paul Haas while the orchestra closes his 2024-25 Mainstage season with a concert entitled “American Voices: Rhapsody in Blue”, 7:30 pm 1, “Afro-American”, and the N ° 1 Symphony of Florence Price. Tickets are from $ 37 to $ 62, with discounts for students (with a photo identity document), for free for children under the age of 18 with the purchase of an adult ticket. Ticket holders can participate in a festive toast in the hall according to the concert, recognizing the 15 years of Haas on the Sona podium. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit sonamusic.org.
Jazz festival
The saxophonist and jazz flulutist Steve Wilson will be an artist in residence at the Uark 2025 jazz festival which takes place this week in places in the northwest of Arkansas and featuring jazz sets in the region, including high school and college groups and groups of the jazz program of the University of Arkansas.
The main range of performance:
7:30 p.m. Tuesday: Jazz sets from the University of Arkansas, University of Arkansas Union Theater, 1438 Markham Road, Fayetteville
7:30 p.m. Wednesday: Wilson and the Jazz Orchestra, Ua Faulkner Center for the Performing Arts, 453 Garland Ave., Fayetteville
7:30 p.m. Thursday: Wilson with Ua Jazz Faculty, Music Depot, 206 W. Walnut St., Rogers
7:30 p.m. Saturday: Wilson with the AU teachers and students, the Thaden school, 800 SE C St., Bentonville.
Admission to all events is free. E-mail (Protected by e-mail).
Wilson is also the artist in residence of the Northwest Arkansas Jazz All Star Program, a program for high school students created and presented by the Northwest Arkansas Jazz Society which brings together grass musicians from 14 regional secondary schools to study, repeat and interpret the jazz Big Band repertoire over three months. The residence will end in a concert at 6.30 p.m. on April 28 at the Starr theater at the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville, 495 W. Dickson St.
Wilson’s visit is made possible by the Hub Family Jazz Residency Program and a partnership with the Northwest Arkansas Jazz Society.
MOVIE
“War model T model”
The MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, 503 E. Ninth St., Little Rock, screens The documentary “Model T’s to War: American Ambulances on the Western Front”, 6.30 pm Tuesday. The film uses silent film images and rare photos to tell the story of young men who, under the aegis of the American field service, led Ford built to T models in front lines, serving the more than 3000 American volunteers who went to France between 1914 and 1917 before the official entry of the United States in the World War in the World War. Entrance, popcorn and soft drinks are free. Call (501) 376-4602.
On the podium
Combat librarian
Amanda Jones will discuss her book, “That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America”, at 6 p.m. Thursday at Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., Little Rock, as part of the series of speakers of the library system of the Arkansas library. The representative of the Tippi McCullough (D-Little Rock) state will moderate. This program pays tribute to the rabbi will go E. Sanders and his life commitment to intellectual freedom. The doors open at 5 p.m.; Jones will sign copies of his book (for sale on site in Wordsworth Books) thereafter. Entrance is free, but the library system recommends registering in advance to secure a seat – visit Tinyurl.com/3rs244W7.
The book of Jones “(tells) his fight against censorship as a Librarian of Louisiana on the front line of American cultural and political battles on intellectual freedom”, according to a press release. She worked for 23 years as a school librarian in the same school that she frequented as a child. She drew national attention in 2022 after being targeted by residents of her city for speaking during a meeting of the board of directors of the public library and then brought legal action against them.
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Cemetery speech
Jennifer Menna gives a conference entitled “Blue Birds, Bugs and Backyard Bliss”, 9 am Saturday at the Bell House in the center of Mont Holly Cemetery, 1200 Broadway, Little Rock. This is part of the MT. Holly Garden series of the cemetery. Enter the cemetery through the pedestrian door of the 13th street. Street parking is available in streets 13, arch and sheaths. Admission is a suggested donation of $ 10 for the benefit of the cemetery; The downtown ladies offer light refreshments and door prices. Provide your own lawn chair. Call (501) 372-3372 or e-mail (Protected by e-mail).
