THEATER

‘Official’ Cash live performance

A band and solid of singers carry out in sync with the “Man in Black” as projections of video from episodes of “The Johnny Cash Show” seem on a display above the stage in “Johnny Cash — The Official Concert Experience,” which is able to kick off a nationwide tour with weeks of tech rehearsals and tour-opening performances at 8 p.m. Saturday and a pair of p.m. Oct. 15 at Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St. Tickets are $35-$69. Call (479) 443-5600 or go to waltonartscenter.org.

The present revisits a few of Cash’s memorable phrases and anecdotes, tales of individuals whose causes he championed and performances of a few of Cash’s largest hits, together with “Folsom Prison Blues,”https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/oct/07/entertainment-notes-official-cash-concert/”Ring of Fire” and “I Walk the Line.” The present can even function on-screen narration by Cash’s solely son, John Carter Cash.

The manufacturing will probably be in technical rehearsals for a number of weeks main as much as these first performances, throughout which actors, designers, inventive personnel and crew deliver collectively the present’s technical components, together with units, lights, costumes and the band.

The present makes two different Arkansas tour stops:

7 p.m. Nov. 1 on the Coulter Performing Arts Center, Vada Sheid Community Development Center, Arkansas State University-Mountain Home, 1600 S. College St., Mountain Home. Tickets are $45, $22.50 for college students. Call (870) 508-6199.

7:30 p.m. Nov. 4 at Little Rock’s Robinson Center Performance Hall, 426 W. Markham St. at Broadway. Tickets are $29-$89. Call (501) 244-8800 or go to CelebrityAttractions.com or Ticketmaster.com.

‘Addams’ musical

Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock, phases “The Addams Family” (music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, ebook by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, based mostly on characters created within the cartoons of Charles Addams), beginning with a 12:30 p.m. matinee preview Wednesday and a 7:30 p.m. preview Thursday and working via Nov. 11.

Gomez (Quinn Gasaway) and Morticia (Moriah Patterson) face a parental nightmare: Dark daughter Wednesday (Bridget Davis) is immediately a younger girl, and what’s worse, has fallen in love with a candy, good younger man (Ethan Patterson) from a good household and so they should host a dinner for the younger man and his mother and father (Briana East and Tim Cooper). Don Bolinger performs Uncle Fester and David Craven performs Lurch.

The buffet opens 90 minutes earlier than curtain time: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday (Wednesday matinees solely, Oct. 11, 18 and 25) and 12:40 and 6:40 p.m. Sunday. Tickets (together with meal and present) are $42-$44, $30 for youngsters 15 and youthful; $30 present solely. Call (501) 562-3131 or go to murrysdp.com.

‘The Band’s Visit’

TheatreSquared, 477 W. Spring St., Fayetteville, phases the regional premiere of “The Band’s Visit” (music and lyrics by David Yazbek, ebook by Itamar Moses), 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 2 and seven:30 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday via Nov. 5. It’s a a musical adaptation of Eran Kolirin’s 2007 critically-acclaimed film of the identical identify a few group of Egyptian musicians whose surprising go to disrupts the every day routines of a small Israeli city. It’s a co-production with Chicago’s Writers Theatre. The 2017 Broadway manufacturing received 10 Tony Awards, together with Best Musical, Best Book, Best Score, Best Actor in a Musical, Best Actress in a Musical and Best Direction of a Musical. Tickets are $20-$64. Call (479) 777-7477 or go to theatre2.org.

    “Beyond the Diagnosis,” 40 portraits that target individuals residing with uncommon and uncared for illnesses, opens Monday Oct. 9 at Thea Foundation, 401 Main St., North Little Rock, and contains portraits of two Arkansas youngsters: Rex Deloneys portray of Matthew Lance of Bella Vista and Diana Shearons portray of Kynnedi Sturges of Camden. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)
  

ART & ARCHITECTURE

‘Beyond the Diagnosis’

“Beyond the Diagnosis,” a gallery of 40 portraits that “unites art and science to inspire research and innovation of treatments for people living with rare and neglected diseases,” in line with a information launch, opens Monday at Thea Foundation, 401 Main St., North Little Rock.

The exhibition, sponsored by Arkansas Children’s Hospital, contains portraits of two Arkansas youngsters: Rex Deloney’s portray of Matthew Lance of Bella Vista, who has a uncommon mixture of diagnoses associated to an additional chromosome that is not documented anyplace else in medical literature, and Diana Shearon’s portray of Kynnedi Sturges, a sickle cell anemia affected person from Camden. It’ll be up via Oct. 26. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday.

The exhibition is touring to medical colleges, analysis institutes and hospitals across the globe encouraging the medical group to look “beyond the diagnosis” to the affected person. Visit beyondthediagnosis.org.

Street photographs

A pop-up exhibition of 12 avenue pictures by University of Arkansas at Little Rock senior Jacobb Nichol is on show Monday-Friday within the Focus Gallery of the Windgate Center of Art and Design on the college, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. Nichol captured the photographs whereas “beating the streets taking candid photographs of people in street settings.” Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, 2-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. Call (501) 916-5104 or e-mail nglarson@ualr.edu.

Fort Smith exhibitions

Three exhibitions open this month on the Fort Smith Regional Art Museum, 1601 Rogers Ave., Fort Smith:

“ArTs at Bost: Creativity, Connection, and Choices,” marking seven years of ArTs at Bost, which gives free artwork courses to people with bodily and mental disabilities. The exhibition opened Saturday and runs via Feb. 4.

On show Oct. 21-Jan. 21: Landscapes by Martin Peerson of western Arkansas and japanese Oklahoma, plus a collection of nonetheless lifes and portraits, and “River Journeys,” prints impressed by the works of the late Susan Morrison (1942-2023) which are a part of the museum’s everlasting assortment that “showcase her profound connection to four scenic rivers in Arkansas: Buffalo, King, Illinois, and Mulberry, interwoven with her poetry,” in line with a information launch.

The museum holds a gap reception for all three exhibitions, 5-7 p.m. Oct. 20.

Museum hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission to the museum and the reception are free. Call (479) 784-2787 or go to fsram.org.

    Primo Orpilla, co-founder of San Francisco design agency Studio O+A, provides a lecture titled “Workplace + Belonging” Tuesday on the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)
  

Architecture lecture

Primo Orpilla, co-founder of Studio O+A, a multidisciplinary San Francisco design agency, will give a lecture titled “Workplace + Belonging,” the kickoff for the Architecture and Design Network’s 2023-24 June Freeman lecture collection, 6 p.m. Tuesday within the Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller Lecture Hall, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, 501 E. Ninth St., Little Rock. It can be the Evo Business Environments Endowed Lecture in Interior Architecture and Design, in partnership with the University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design. A welcome reception with refreshments will precede the lecture at 5:30 within the museum’s Cultural Living Room. Admission is free. Email ArchDesignCommunity@gmail.com.

    On show on the Fort Smith Regional Art Center: “King River Falls 2” by Susan Morrison, “September Clouds” by Martin Peerson and “Self Portrait” by Katrina Norwood. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)
  

    On show at the moment or quickly on the Fort Smith Regional Art Center: “King River Falls 2” by Susan Morrison, “September Clouds” by Martin Peerson and “Self Portrait” by Katrina Norwood. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)
  

    Street pictures by University of Arkansas at Little Rock senior Jacobb Nichol goes on show Monday within the Focus Gallery of UALR’s Windgate Center of Art and Design. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)
  

    Rom Barkhordar (left) performs as Tewfiq with Yael “Yaya” Reich as Dina in TheatreSquared’s manufacturing of “The Band’s Visit.” (Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Wesley Hitt)