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LR native Best Play producer

WILL TRICE: Little Rock native Will Trice is one of the producers of the Broadway play All The Way, which recently win a 2014 Tony Award for Best Play. The play depicts President Lyndon B. Johnson advocating passage of the Civil Rights Act. Trice, a Central High graduate from the class of 1997, has been producing shows in New York since at least 2012, when he was one of the producers for The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, which won a Tony in 2012 for Best Revival. Trice also worked on the revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which won a Tony in 2013. Trice is the son of Judy and the late Bill Trice of Little Rock, a lawyer who passed away this spring.

OFF THE GRID: Robert Allen, the owner of Sigma 3 Survival School in Huntington in Sebastian County, was featured Thursday on the Sportsman Channel's new show, America Unplugged.

Allen, a U.S. Army combat engineer and veteran of the second Iraq War, turned 400 acres into a military-style school where he offers instruction to average citizens on survival skills ranging from making fires, building shelters, fishing and hunting to disaster preparedness, wilderness medical training and self-defense. On the show, Allen, who is currently working to eventually go completely off the grid, shares his gardens, chicken farms and the aquaponics system he uses for both his vegetables and fish.

HOOKING A BIG ONE: Where to Retire magazine's July/August issue takes a nod to Hot Springs. The city is one of eight cities profiled in the magazine's feature, "Eight Fishing Cities: Great Lures Across the U.S." Other cities included in the article are Morehead City, N.C.; Florida's Upper Keys, Natchitoches, La.; Door County, Wis.; Bozeman, Mont.; Bend, Ore.; and Redding, Calif. The magazine, launched in 1992 and published six times a year, hits newsstands nationwide this Tuesday.

UNFOLDING STORY: The show went on for Paula Morrell's internationally syndicated NPR radio show, "Tales of the South," at Starving Artist Cafe in downtown North Little Rock after she and her then-husband Jason, who co-owned the restaurant, divorced in late 2013. But the restaurant recently closed. Paula, who serves as executive producer of the show, now in its ninth year, is taking it to a variety of locales in North Little Rock and Little Rock. And she's open to holding it at other places around the state. She says the show's taping schedule -- 7 p.m. Tuesdays with dinner served at 5 p.m. -- will remain the same. Some future venues include Sticky Fingerz Rock-N-Roll Chicken Shack in the Little Rock River Market District and Laman Library's Argenta branch in North Little Rock. Tuesday's venue will be Mugs Cafe on Main Street in North Little Rock. Thanks to a recent partnership with The Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, the show will be taped there three more times this year and another six times in 2015.

Contact Linda S. Haymes at (501) 399-3636 or [email protected]

Metro on 06/15/2014

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