Zany scientist Beakman (aka Paul Zaloom) of the children’s television science show Beakman’s World will be onstage with a live-action show called Beakman on the Brain at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville.
The show, part of the center’s Kleenex Kids Series, illustrates how the human brain works, using special effects, applied science, projected imagery and animation, demonstrations and audience participation.
Tickets are $9-$17. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit the website, waltonartscenter. org.
Marsalis sells out
Monday’s 7 p.m. concert by trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and the 15-piece Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra at the University of Central Arkansas has sold out.
The university will have a waiting list for any unclaimed tickets. Call (501) 450-3265 or (866) 810-0012 or visit uca.edu/tickets.
Chamber orchestra
The Chamber Orchestra Kremlin will give a concert at 2 p.m. today in Riceland Hall of Arkansas State University’s Fowler Center, 201 Olympic Drive, Jonesboro.
The program will include Serenade for String Orchestra in e minor, op.20, by EdwardElgar; Chamber Symphony, op.110b, by Dmitri Shostakovich (an arrangement by Rudolf Barshai of Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8), followed by the “Contrapunctus No. 1” from The Art of the Fugue by J.S. Bach; and the Serenade in E major for strings, op.22, by Antonin Dvorak. Founder and music director Misha Rachlevsky will conduct.
The concert is part of the university’s Fowler Center Series. Tickets are $30 and $20; $23 and $15 for senior citizens and K-12 students, with discounts for ASU faculty, staff and students. Call (870) 972-2781 or (888) 278-3267 or visit yourfowlercenter.com.
Talent competition
Feb. 28 is the deadline to enter the Arkansas Star Talent Search, which is offering a cash prize and possible bookings in Branson for Arkansas singers, March 4-5 at the RayLynn Theater, 701 Central Ave., Hot Springs.
Competition for contestants 12 and over will be March 4, with contestants under 12 competing March 5, times to be announced. Competition organizers say the judges “will be some of the icons of the entertainmentindustry in Arkansas.”
Finals will be March 12.
The grand prize winner will receive a trophy, a cash prize (to be announced) and free recording time at studios in Drasco and Cabot, and will “have the opportunity” to appear at three Branson venues - the Mickey Gilley Theater, the Osmond Brothers Show and the Hot Hits Theater with “Elvis and the Superstars” - at Earnest Tubb Theater as part of the WSM Radio Midnight Jamboree Show in Nashville, Tenn., and a special appearance at the White River Hoedown at Mountain View.
Entry fee is $75. Call (888) 902-0913.
Gospel concert
Members of the Harlem Gospel Choir will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday at the East Arkansas Community College Fine Arts Center, 1700 Newcastle Road, Forrest City.
Tickets are $30 (group discounts are available). Call (870) 633-4480, Extension 352 or 362, or visit the website, eacc.edu.
Hendrix musical
The Hendrix Players will stage Violet, music by JeanineTesori, book and lyrics by Brian Crawley, based on the short story “The Ugliest Pilgrim” by Doris Betts, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Cabe Theatre at Hendrix College, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway.
Admission is free but reservations are recommended. Call (501) 450-1343.
Mardi Gras benefit
Ed Polcer and the Jazz All-Stars will headline a Mardi Gras Jazz Party benefiting the Pine Bluff Symphony at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Banquet Hall of the Pine Bluff Convention Center, 500 E. Eighth Ave., Pine Bluff.
Tickets, $50, include food, dancing and beads; a cash bar will be available, and masks and costumes are encouraged. Call (870) 536-7666.
Play suggestions
Center on the Square in Searcy is seeking submissions for plays with a family theme and directors for its 2011-2012 season, which begins July 1. The season will include six shows, at least one of which will be a full-length musical; a one-act dessert theater production; an “Actor’s Showcase” script; and a “junior” musical for a children’s production.
To make play suggestions or express interest in directing a production, call (501) 368-0111 or visit the website, centeronthesquare.org. Deadline is March 1.
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