THEATER

‘Beautiful’ musical

The Argenta Contemporary Theatre, 405 Main St., North Little Rock, levels “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” (jukebox musical with ebook by Douglas McGrath), 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday and April 23-27 and a pair of p.m. April 21. The present covers the adolescence and profession of Carole King, that includes the songs she wrote, many with Gerry Goffin, plus up to date songs by Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Phil Spector and others: “I Feel the Earth Move,”https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2024/apr/13/entertainment-notes-beautiful-in-argenta-fat-ham/”So Far Away,”https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2024/apr/13/entertainment-notes-beautiful-in-argenta-fat-ham/”Some Kind of Wonderful,”https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2024/apr/13/entertainment-notes-beautiful-in-argenta-fat-ham/”One Fine Day,”https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2024/apr/13/entertainment-notes-beautiful-in-argenta-fat-ham/”Take Good Care of My Baby,”https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2024/apr/13/entertainment-notes-beautiful-in-argenta-fat-ham/”Will You [Still] Love Me Tomorrow,”https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2024/apr/13/entertainment-notes-beautiful-in-argenta-fat-ham/”On Broadway,”https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2024/apr/13/entertainment-notes-beautiful-in-argenta-fat-ham/”The Locomotion,”https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2024/apr/13/entertainment-notes-beautiful-in-argenta-fat-ham/”You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling,”https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2024/apr/13/entertainment-notes-beautiful-in-argenta-fat-ham/”It’s Too Late,”https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2024/apr/13/entertainment-notes-beautiful-in-argenta-fat-ham/”Natural Woman” and “Beautiful.” Tickets are $35 for Wednesday-Thursday preview performances, $45 for all different reveals. Visit argentacontemporarytheatre.org.

‘Fat Ham’ in Fayetteville

TheatreSquared, 477 W. Spring St., Fayetteville, levels “Fat Ham” by James Ijames in its West Theatre, opening Wednesday with reveals at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 2 and seven:30 p.m. Saturday and a pair of p.m. Sunday by means of May 12. The play, a send-up of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” gained the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It’s a co-production with the City Theatre in Pittsburgh Tickets are $43 to $68. Call (479) 777-7477 or go to theatre2.org/fat-ham.

MUSIC

‘Journey Through Time’

Four Arkansas Symphony Orchestra chamber ensembles carry out a River Rhapsodies Chamber Music live performance, 7 p.m. Tuesday within the Great Hall of the Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock.

For a program titled “Journey Through Time,” the orchestra’s Quapaw Quartet — Charlotte Crosmer and Lauren Pokorzynski, violins; Timothy MacDuff, viola; and Travis Scharer, cello — performs Libby Larsen’s “Quartet: She Wrote,” based mostly on a passage from James Joyce’s “Ulysses.” Violinists Meredith Maddox Hicks and Katherine Williamson and pianist Jaeyeon Park play the Suite for Two Violins and Piano, op.71, by Moritz Moszkowski. Carolyn Brown, flute, and Alisa Coffey, harp, play the Sonata for Flute and Harp, op.56, by Lowell Liebermann. And Katherine Reynolds, viola, joins Julian Pranata, viola da gamba, and Daniel Gilbert, harpsichord, for the Sonata in C main for viola and continuo, op.2, No. 4, by William Flackton.

Tickets are $50 (pricing topic to alter), $15 for college kids and/or navy with a legitimate ID. Call (501) 666-1761, Ext. 1, or go to arkansassymphony.org.

    The Arkansas Symphony’s Quapaw Quartet — (from left) Timothy MacDuff, viola; Charlotte Crosmer and Lauren Pokorzynski, violins; and Travis Scharer, cello — performs Libby Larsen’s “Quartet: She Wrote” Tuesday April 16 on the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)
  

Artosphere lineup

Artists and performers from world wide who’re impressed by nature might be in Fayetteville from May 2-23 for the Artosphere: Arkansas’ Arts + Nature Festival, with occasions and performances at areas throughout Northwest Arkansas, organized by Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center. Call (479) 443-5600 or go to artospherefestival.org.

Ticketed performances

◼️ Fayetteville Film Fest: Indie Film Artosphere, 8 p.m. May 11, Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. $15

◼️ Dover Quartet, 7 p.m. May 11, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 224 N. East Ave., Fayetteville. $15. 7 p.m. May 15, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 600 Museum Way, Bentonville. $29

◼️ Artosphere Festival Orchestra, Corrado Rovaris, conductor. “American Soundscapes,” 7 p.m., May 14, Walton Arts Center. $10. Verdi’s Requiem, 8 p.m. May 18, Walton Arts Center. $15-$50. “Mozart in the Museum,” 7 p.m. May 22, Crystal Bridges. $54

◼️ Compagnia TPO’s “ERBA – A Forest in the City,” 6:30 p.m. May 14-15, Walton Arts Center. $10

◼️ 360 ALLSTARS, 7 p.m. May 21, Walton Arts Center. $10.

Some free occasions and performances

◼️ Trout Fishing in America, 6:30 p.m. May 7, Botanic Garden of the Ozarks, 4703 N. Crossover Road, Fayetteville. By free ticket.

◼️ Trail Mix, 5-7 p.m. May 10, The Lower Ramble, 255 S West Ave., and Fayetteville Public Library, 401 W Mountain St.

◼️ Jazz on the Mountain that includes Backbeat Jazz, 6 p.m. May 23, Mount Sequoyah, 150 N. Skyline Drive, Fayetteville. By free ticket.

Some accomplice/Artosphere-sponsored occasions and performances

◼️ Railyard Live presents The Cate Brothers & The Nace Brothers, 7 p.m. May 3, Butterfield Stage, 101 E. Cherry St., Rogers. Tickets: free-$30; railyardlive.com

◼️ Railyard Live — Gente Privada presents La Fiesta Con Grupo del 4 & Emmanuel Cortes with Little Yei and DJ Alfaro, 7 p.m. May 4, Butterfield Stage, Rogers. Tickets: free-$30; railyardlive.com

◼️ Bruce Cockburn, 7:30 p.m. May 6, Victory Theater, 116 S. Second St., Rogers. Tickets: $29.50-$59.50; thevictorytheater.com

◼️ Mountain Street Stage: Aaron Smith with Still on the Hill and Friends, 2 p.m. May 12, Fayetteville Public Library. Free

◼️ Strawberry Festival, noon-6 p.m. May 19, Downtown Fayetteville Square. Free.

ART

Student Art & Poetry

National Park College, 101 College Drive, Hot Springs, hosts its annual Student Art and Poetry Exhibition, greater than 100 items together with drawings, work, digital work, pictures, ceramics, movie and poetry, Monday-Thursday within the faculty’s Student Commons Conference Center. A poetry reception honoring poetry contest winners will happen at midday Wednesday. The NPC singers will carry out and hors d’oeuvres might be served. Gallery hours are 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Admission to the exhibition and poetry reception occasions are free.

The NPC Foundation will host “A Night of Art,” 5:30 p.m. Thursday within the Student Commons. NPC Hospitality college students will serve artistic hor d’oeuvres; quite a lot of handcrafted mocktails might be obtainable from Spa City eating places. Jacob Flores will present leisure. Tickets are $50; go to np.edu/ArtNight.

‘Expressions’ present

Benton-based nonprofit Birch Tree Communities, a behavioral well being program offering therapeutic neighborhood companies for adults dwelling with severe and chronic psychological sickness, holds its 18th annual Expressions Art Show, artworks created by its members, 5:30-8 p.m. Thursday at The Hall, 721 W. Ninth St., Little Rock. Admission is $20. Call (501) 315-3344 or go to Birchtree.org or littlerockhall.com.

FILM

Escapees’ story

The MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, 503 E. Ninth St., Little Rock, screens the documentary “4-4-43,” the story of the April 4, 1943, breakout by 10 American prisoners of struggle and two Filipino convicts from a supposedly escape-proof Japanese jail plantation within the Philippines with a secret that will shock the world, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. Producer/author John D. Lukacs tells the story by means of the eyes of Lt. Col. William Edwin Dyess, who spent practically a yr on the Davao Penal Colony previous to his escape. Admission, popcorn and smooth drinks are free. Call (501) 376-4602.

    Lt. Col. William Edwin Dyess, one in all 10 American prisoners of struggle who escaped from a Japanese jail plantation within the Philippines, is the main focus of a documentary, “4-4-43,” screening Tuesday on the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History in Little Rock. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette/U.S. Air Force)
  

ETC.

Brooks-Baxter session

The Old State House Museum, the Arkansas State Archives and the Historic Arkansas Museum current “Anarchy in Arkansas: The Brooks-Baxter War at 150,” a take a look at the spring 1874 dispute between rival factions of Arkansas’ Republican occasion over the fraud-plagued outcomes of the 1872 gubernatorial election that erupted in spasms of armed violence, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday on the Old State House, 300 W. Markham St., Little Rock.

The session contains shows by Arkansas historians, interspersed with readings taken from up to date newspaper studies and correspondence. (Holding this program on the Old State House is especially acceptable, since a lot of the battle came about inside this constructing or close by, in keeping with a information launch.)

Cost is $10 per individual and features a boxed lunch. Registration is required; go to arkansasstatehousesociety-971033.sq..website. For extra data, name (501) 324-8641 or electronic mail Georganne.Sisco@arkansas.gov.

TICKETS

‘Nutcracker’ tour

The “Nutcracker! Magical Christmas Ballet” touring manufacturing returns to Little Rock’s Robinson Center Performance Hall, 426 W. Markham St. at Broadway, for a efficiency at 5 p.m. Dec. 31. Tickets — $31-$180 — are actually on sale. Call (800) 320-1733 or go to nutcracker.com.