Steel drum and marimba player Paul McDermand will perform Caribbean-flavored music, backed by a band, at 2 p.m. today at the Arend Arts Center, 1901 S.E. J St, Bentonville, under the auspices of Live On Stage in NWA.
Tickets are $25, $5 for students. Call (479) 855-9997 or visit LiveOnStageNWA.com.
Rogers film festival
Rogers Little Theater will host the Victory Film Festival, screening five mature-audience films in conjunction with the Bentonville Film Festival, Tuesday-Thursday at the Victory Theater, 116 S. Second St, Rogers.
The lineup:
• 9:30 p.m. Tuesday: Lila and Eve. A grief-stricken mother (Viola Davis), in the aftermath of her son's murder, at a support group meets a woman (Jennifer Lopez) who has lost her daughter and urges her to take matters into her own hands to track down her son's killers.
• 7:15 p.m. Wednesday: Asphalt Phenoms of New York, a documentary look at street basketball in the Big Apple.
• 9 p.m. Wednesday: Girl on the Edge, the true story of a teenager struggling with the aftermath of a horrific trauma caused in part by social media and wounds from her childhood that it reopens.
• 8 p.m. Thursday: Hollidaysburg, a coming-of-age comedy in which high-school friends reuniting over their first college holiday break discover just how much they have changed while their hometown has stayed the same.
• 10 p.m. Thursday: Phantom Halo, in which a former master Shakespearean actor, now a gambling drunk, and his brother, a master pickpocket, must find a way out of trouble with a loan shark.
Tickets are $8. Call (479) 631-8988 or visit rogerslittletheater.org.
Bentonville art show
The Bentonville Fine Art Show, featuring work by artists Richard Mayhew, David C. Driskell, Beverly Yvette Smith, Louis Delsarte, Sonie Ruffin, Ted Ellis and Arkansas native Najee Dorsey, will be on display 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday and noon-5 p.m. May 10 at the Majestic Republic Art Gallery, 109 N. Main St., Bentonville.
Admission is free. Dorsey, founder and chief executive officer of co-sponsor (with the Silver Parker Group) Black Art in America, will lead guided tours. A portion of the proceeds from sales benefits Dress for Success Northwest Arkansas, a nonprofit that provides interview suits and career development support to low-income women. Call (479) 366-7205.
TheatreSquared
Fayetteville-based professional regional company TheatreSquared will open its 2015-16, 10th anniversary season Aug. 27-Sept. 20 with Amadeus by Peter Shaffer at the Walton Arts Center's Nadine Baum Studios, 505 W. Spring St., Fayetteville.
The rest of the lineup:
• Oct. 15-Nov. 8: Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegria Hudes
• Dec. 3-Jan. 3: Peter and the Starcatcher, adapted by Rick Elice from the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson with music by Wayne Barker, a co-production with the Arkansas Repertory Theatre
• Feb. 4-28: The world premiere of Fault by TheatreSquare Artistic Director Robert Ford
• March 3-April 17: Rapture, Blister, Burn by Gina Gionfriddo
Five-play ($70-$198) and four-play (prices vary) subscription packages are available; call (479) 571-2785 or visit theatre2.org/subscribe.
Off the subscription season, TheatreSquared will stage a new musical comedy, Murder for Two (music and book by Joe Kinosian, lyrics and book by Kellen Blair) May 12-29, 2016, and will develop five new plays, including a fully staged premiere, as part of the 2016 Arkansas New Play Festival, June 16-26, 2016.
Orpheum season
The Orpheum Theatre, 203 S. Main St., Memphis, will open its 2015-16 Broadway Season, Oct. 13-18 with a touring production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella.
The rest of the lineup:
• Nov. 17-22: Pippin, music and lyrics by Steven Schwartz, book by Roger O. Hirson and Bob Fosse
• Dec. 8-13: Disney's Newsies, music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman, book by Harvey Fierstein
• Jan. 12-17: Matilda the Musical, music and lyrics by Tim Minchin, book by Dennis Kelly, based on the novel by Roald Dahl
• Feb. 9-14: A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder, music, lyrics and book by Steven Lutvak, lyrics and book by Robert L. Freedman
• May 10-15, 2016: Bullets Over Broadway, book by Woody Allen, based on the movie screenplay by Allen and Douglas McGrath
And as an add-on:
• March 15-20: The Book of Mormon, music, book and lyrics by Robert Lopez, Trey Parker and Matt Stone
Season ticket prices (four-, five- and six-show packages) are $125-$815.50. Tickets go on sale May 18. Call (901) 525-3000 or visit orpheum-memphis.com.
Artist Popow honored
The Arkansas Arts Council has named Lorrie Popow of Hot Springs as its 2015 Arkansas Living Treasure.
Popow is a master of pysanky, creating elaborate designs on eggs using a beeswax resist and dye method.
Through 55 years of devotion to pysanky and teaching it to others, she has pushed the boundaries of what originally was a Ukrainian folk art. Her work is found in collections around the world, including the Ukrainian National Museum in Chicago.
The council will honor Popow with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. May 12 in the Garden Pavilion at Garvan Woodland Gardens, 550 Arkridge Road in Hot Springs. Admission is free, but reservations are required. Call (501) 324-9766 or email [email protected] by Friday.
The Arkansas Living Treasure award recognizes an Arkansan who is outstanding in the creation of a traditional craft and has significantly contributed to the preservation of the art form. An independent panel of practicing craft artists and professionals in the fields of craft and folk art select the recipient based on quality of work, community outreach and overall contribution to traditional crafts.
Style on 05/03/2015