Jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis and his quartet kick off the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith's Season of Entertainment 37, 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the ArcBest Corp. Performing Arts Center, Fort Smith Convention Center, 55 S. Seventh St., Fort Smith. Tickets are $32-$35. Call (479) 788-7300 or visit tickets.uafs.edu.
Sept. 11 photos
Photographs taken on and after Sept. 11, 2001, will be on display Tuesday-Sept. 12 in the Smith-Pendergraft Campus Center, University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, 800 N. 49th St., Fort Smith. The annual exhibit documents the attacks, emergency response and recovery efforts as well as the eventual rebuilding of the World Trade Center. Hours are 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Friday. Admission is free. Call (479) 788-7300.
Come Together concert
Grammy Award-winning jazz musician Paul Jackson headlines a Come Together Inclusion Concert, 6:30 p.m. Saturday at The Record, 104 S.W. A St., Bentonville. Opening acts will be Harley Hamm's Prince Tribute Band and The Funk Factory Band. General concert admission is $40. You'll need separate tickets for:
• Jackson's 1-2 p.m. VIP sound-check session ($20, includes a question-and-answer meet-and-greet with autographs and a rehearsal jam session).
• 5:30-6 p.m. VIP Meet & Greet, ($70, includes concert ticket, autographs, refreshments and photos).
A portion of the ticket sales will go to local nonprofits. Visit cometogetherconcert.eventbrite.com.
Jackson will also be working Thursday-Friday with students and teachers at the Arkansas Arts Academy in Rogers. One student will get to perform a song with Jackson and the band during the concert.
Moscow Ballet tryouts
Moscow Ballet is sending ballerina Maria Morari to audition Arkansas ballet students, ages 6-18 with at least one year of ballet training, for its Great Russian Nutcracker, 11 a.m. Sept. 16 at Studio Dancers' Corner School of Dance, 7509 Cantrell Road, Little Rock. The young dancers will perform side-by-side with the professional company as Party Children, Mice, Snowflakes, Snow Maidens and "frames" for the regional variations, 3 and 7 p.m. Dec. 21 at Little Rock's Robinson Center Performance Hall. The auditions will also cover a performance at 7 p.m. Nov. 9 at the ArcBest Performing Arts Center in Fort Smith. Register at nutcracker.com/auditions.
Fowler Center Series
The 2017-2018 Fowler Center Series at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro opens at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 22 with Artrageous, a troupe of artists, musicians, singers and dancers paying tribute to various art forms, pop icons and musical genres.
The rest of the lineup (except as noted, all performances start at 7:30 p.m. at the Fowler Center, ASU, 201 Olympic Drive, Jonesboro):
• Oct. 20: Kevin Delaney, formerly of Little Rock's Museum of Discovery, in collaboration with the Arkansas Science Festival. 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.
• Nov. 3: Barrage 8, eight-member string ensemble
• Jan. 16: American Spiritual Ensemble
• Feb. 8: Riders in the Sky
• March 16: Steep Canyon Rangers
• April 6: Acoustic guitarist Andy McKee
Call (870) 972-3471 or (870) 972-2781 or visit AState.edu/tickets or yourfowlercenter.com.
El Dorado theater
The South Arkansas Arts Center will open its 2017-2018 theater season Oct. 19 and 21-25 with a community theater production of Breakfast at Tiffany's, Richard Greenberg's stage adaptation of the novella by Truman Capote.
The rest of the lineup (all performances at the center, 110 E. Fifth St., El Dorado):
• Dec. 3 and 5: Fiddler on the Roof Jr. (music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, book by Joseph Stein, based on Sholem Aleichem's stories). SAAC Arts Academy Drama Club.
• Dec. 8-10: "Hollywood & Pine" Holiday Revue (Theatre Committee special event), featuring songs from Hollywood "holiday" movies.
• Jan. 26-27: Moonlight and Magnolias by Ron Hutchison. Silver Theatre Group.
• March 2-4, 8-9 and 11: Sunset Boulevard, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, book and lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton, based on the Billy Wilder film.
• July 12-15 and 18-22: Singin' in the Rain (songs by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed, based on the screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green). Community Theatre, sponsored by Murphy USA.
Call (870) 862-5474 or visit saac-arts.org.
The center and the new Murphy Arts District will host Nov. 9-12 the El Dorado Film Festival, a selection of international and local films with an emphasis on Southern voices. The festival will also feature musical performances by Arkansas native Barrett Baber and Dennis Quaid & the Sharks. Call (870) 863-4547 or visit eldofilmfest.com.
True Grit anniversary
Oxford American magazine will honor the 50th anniversary of the publication of Charles Portis' novel True Grit with a series of events, April 20-21 in Little Rock and Fort Smith. The weekend will include panel discussions, readings, tours, museum exhibits, screenings of the two film versions (the 1969 film that earned John Wayne his sole Academy Award, co-starring Glen Campbell and Kim Darby, and the 2010 remake by Joel and Ethan Coen with Hailee Steinfeld and Jeff Bridges).
A Saturday-night variety show will feature comedy, music by Arkansas native Iris DeMent and appearances and performances by some of the book's notable fans. A lineup and information about tickets is available online at oxfordamerican.org/TG50.
Style on 09/03/2017