The Pineapple Tree Dance Company, a new Northwest Arkansas-based contemporary ballet troupe consisting of 23 volunteer dancers and choreographers, will present its first dance concert and community outreach performance at 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday in the Starr Theater at Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville.
The program includes 12 original ballet, modern and contemporary works set to music by, among others, J.S. Bach, Duke Ellington, Ennio Morricone and New Age musician Govi. A gallery area of photos from the organization’s dance photography project, taken in downtown Fayetteville and at Beaver Lake, will be on display before the performances and during intermission.
Tickets are $20, $15 for children. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit the website, PineappleTreeDanceCompany.org.
Choral Evensong
The Choir of Men and Boys of St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue New York City will perform Choral Evensong, 7 p.m. Wednesday at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 224 N. East Ave., Fayetteville. The program will include the anthems “Sicut cervus” by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, “Bring Us, O Lord God” by William Harris, “I Was Glad” by Henry Purcell and “Let the People Praise Thee, O God” by William Mathias. John Scottdirects. Admission is free. Call (479) 442-7373 or visit the website, stpaulsfay.org.
Dinner theater
Rogers Little Theater will stage The Man Who Came to Dinner by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart in a dinner-theater setting, 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday and April 3-5 and 2 p.m. March 30 and April 6 at the Victory Theater, 116 S. Second St., Rogers. Seating for the meal starts 90 minutes before curtain. Dinner theater tickets are $48; show-only balcony seats are $17. Call (479) 631-8988 or visit the website, rogerslittletheater.org.
Shores in residence
Playwright and performer Del Shores will put on his one-man show, Del Shores:My Sordid Best, as part of a two-day residency to benefit the Weekend Theater, Friday-Saturday at the Ron Robinson Theater, Arcade Building, President Clinton and River Market avenues, Little Rock.
Things get underway with a premiere screening of Southern Baptist Sissies, a filmed version of Shores’ stage play, at 7:30 p.m. Friday. Shores will participate in a post-screening question-and-answer session. Tickets are $13.50.
Shores will give a “Trust Your Gut! Acting Workshop,” 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday (cost is $125; details and contact information are available online at tinyurl.com/o89mrjf).
Curtain time for the oneman show is 7:30 p.m.
Saturday and the event includes a silent auction. Tickets are $28.50, with a limited number of VIP tickets, $48.50, which include preferred seating and attendance at a post-show “VIP Meet and Greet” cocktail and hors d’oeuvres party with Shores.
Tickets are available at weekendtheater.tix.com; for more information, call (501) 374-3761 or visit the website, weekendtheater.org.
Bluegrass Monday
Southern Illinois-based family bluegrass-gospel band the Bankesters (dad Phil and mom Dorene, who play guitar; three of their adult daughters, Melissa Triplett on upright bass, Emily Bankester on fiddle and Alysha Bankester on fiddle and mandolin;and son-in-law Kyle Triplett on banjo, guitar, mandolin and dobro) will perform for a Bluegrass Monday concert at 7 p.m. Monday at the Collins Theatre, 120 W. Emerson St., Paragould. Jonesboro public radio station KASU-FM, 91.9, will “pass the hat” to pay the group; suggested donation is $5. Call (870) 972-2367, email [email protected] or visit the Bluegrass Monday Facebook page.
Met: Live season
The Metropolitan Opera will kick off its 2014-15 Met: Live in HD season of live Saturday “cinecasts” to theaters around the world Oct. 11 with Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth.
The lineup (except as noted, all at 11:55 a.m. CDT):
Oct. 18: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro
Nov. 1: Georges Bizet’s Carmen
Nov. 15: John Adams’ The Death of Klinghoffer
Dec. 13: Richard Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, 11 a.m.
Jan. 17: Franz Lehar’s The Merry Widow
Jan. 31: Jacques Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann
Feb. 14: Iolanta by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky and Duke Bluebeard’s Castle by Bela Bartok, 11:30 a.m.
March 14: Gioacchino Rossini’s The Lady of the Lake
April 25, 2015: Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci, 11:30 a.m.
Additional details on the productions, performers, conductors and directors are available at tinyurl.com/ pswh589. Theater locations, rebroadcast and ticket information will be available at metopera.org/hdlive.
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