THEATER

The touring manufacturing of “Company” (music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, e book by George Furth), in a brand new staging by Marianne Elliott that has turned what initially was a bachelor right into a bachelorette, is onstage 7 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday, 1:30 and seven p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and eight p.m. Saturday and a couple of p.m. Feb. 25 at Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St. The present received 5 2022 Tony Awards, together with finest revival of a musical. Tickets are $42-$93. Call (479) 443-5600 or go to waltonartscenter.org.

‘Godspell’ in Argenta

Argenta Community Theater, 405 Main St., North Little Rock, levels the musical “Godspell” (music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, e book by John-Michael Tebelak, based mostly on the biblical Gospel of Matthew), with previews at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday and exhibits at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and a couple of p.m. Feb. 25-March 2.

J. Kirt Thomas performs Jesus with Willie Lucius as John the Baptist and Judas. The supporting solid of disciples contains Hannah Blacklaw, John Broadwater, Eli Halter, Savannah Halter, Kyra Hatley, Bella Insalaco, Steven Jones, Ashley Merrill, Amelia Migliore, Emory Molitor, Kelley Ponder, Satia Spencer, Kristen Phantazia Smith, Alexandra Rose Vigil, Adam Whitfield and Will Witt. Producing Artistic Director Vincent Insalaco directs, with music route by Bob Bidewell.

Tickets are $28-$38, $88 VIP. Visit argentacommunitytheater.org.

FUN

African cirque

See Cirque Zuma Zuma, an African cirque-style present, 7 p.m. Monday in Arkansas State University-Beebe’s Owen Center theater, 1102 W. College St., Beebe. It’s a part of the college’s Lecture-Concert Series. Tickets are $10, $5 for educators, navy personnel, Ok-12 college students and senior residents 60 and older. Visit asub.ticketleap.com/zumazuma.

    Cirque Zuma Zuma takes over Arkansas State University-Beebe’s Owen Center theater on Monday. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)
  

ART

3D artists at ASU

Four artists who concentrate on three-dimensional works will likely be visiting Arkansas State University this month: Malcolm Mobutu Smith, a professor of ceramics at Indiana University; Jamie Bates Sloan, an assistant professor of ceramics on the University of Oklahoma; Bede Clarke, an emeritus professor of ceramics from the University of Missouri; and Chris Wubbena, a professor of sculpture at Southeast Missouri State.

An exhibition of Wubbena’s works goes on show Wednesday and stays up by way of March 11 at ASU’s Windgate Center for Three-Dimensional Arts, 105 Driver St., Jonesboro. Workshops will happen from 8 a.m. till midday Thursday within the Windgate Center — ceramics in Room 121 and sculpture in Room 127. Admission is free. An open question-and-answer occasion will comply with, noon-1 p.m. Thursday, within the Windgate Center gallery.

A reception for the artists, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Friday at The Lounge at Huntington Square, 401 W. Huntington Ave., Jones

boro, will function a silent public sale, refreshments, reside music and hand-printed swag luggage.

Coffin artist at UA

Ghanaian artist Jacob Paa Joe Jr. will shut out a two-week-plus workshop on the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville to create a proverbial coffin on Thursday, with a 2:30 p.m. procession with the completed coffin on the Studio and Design Center, 696 Praxis Lane, Fayetteville, and a 5:30 p.m. artist speak on at Hillside Auditorium, Room 202, 902 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville.

Proverbial coffins had been popularized within the mid-Fifties in southern Ghana communities as a method of honoring the deceased. A fisherman may be buried in a coffin formed like a ship or fish; a person who demonstrated bravery in life could also be interred in a lion; and an individual who amassed nice wealth could also be buried in a luxurious automotive.

Call (479) 575-7930 or e-mail kaylac@uark.edu.

    Ghanaian artist Jacob Paa Joe Jr. has been engaged on a Sankofa hen coffin on the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)
  

FILM

MacArthur film

The MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, 503 E. Ninth St., Little Rock, screens “The Tuskegee Airmen: Return to Ramitelli,” 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. The documentary appears to be like on the Tuskegee Airmen, Black navy pilots throughout World War II, that includes interviews with lots of the pilots, members of the family and Italian and American historians; follows the daughter of a Tuskegee Airman to Italy to go to what stays of the bottom at Ramitelli and features a go to to the cemetery at Nettuno, the place a number of Tuskegee Airmen are buried. It’s a part of the museum’s month-to-month Movies At MacArthur sequence. Admission, popcorn and drinks are free. Call (501) 376-4602.

ETC.

Rogers Pioneer Days

The Rogers Historical Museum, 313 and 322 S. Second St., Rogers, is providing a two-day, spring break “Pioneer Days!” historical past program March 19 and 21 for kids 6-12, specializing in early settlers who made their house in Benton County within the mid-Nineteenth century and their methods of self-sufficient residing within the rural Ozarks. Each day includes a totally different 45-minute program — “Butter Making” March 19, “Tin Lanterns” March 21 — and features a themed lesson and hands-on exercise. Sessions start at 9, 10 and 11 a.m. every day. It’s free to attend, however a timed registration is required for every day’s session with the choice to register for at some point or each. Parents/guardians are requested to stick with their kids throughout this system. To register, name (479) 621-1154 or go to rogershistoricalmuseum.org/pioneer-days.