PERFORMING ARTS
Here’s a look at the 2008 lineup for professional and amateur theater and dance performances. (Most venues had not firmed up their fall seasons by press time at the end of 2007.)
Arkansas Arts Center Children’s Theatre
Main Stage: 7 p.m. Fri., 3 p.m. Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. MacArthur Park, Ninth and Commerce streets, 372-4000, www.arkarts.com. Main Stage (performances geared toward all ages):
JAN. 25-FEB. 10: “Hercules.”
MARCH 7-23: “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”
MAY 2-18: “Ramona Quimby.”
Arkansas Repertory Theatre
Usual showtimes 7 p.m. Tue.-Sat., 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sun. 601 S. Main St., 378-0405, www.therep.org.
THROUGH JAN. 6: “Hello, Dolly!” The Tony Award-winning musical about a matchmaker in turn-of-the-century New York.
FEB. 8-24: “Doubt.” A Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of moral uncertainty in a 1964 Bronx Catholic school.
MARCH 13-23: “Sing, Dance, Repeat!” A celebration of the most important historical events of the 20th century through song and dance.
APRIL 11-APRIL 27: “Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure.” London’s greatest detective takes on the evil mastermind Professor Moriarty.
MAY 30-JUNE 22: “Fire on the Mountain.” A musical about the lives of Appalachian coal miners.
Robinson Center Music Hall
Evening shows at 7:30 p.m., matinees at 1 p.m., Robinson Center. Celebrity Attractions, 300 S. Spring St., Suite 220, 244-8800, www.celebrityattractions.com.
FEB. 12-14: “Annie.” The classic musical about a redheaded orphan.
APRIL 15-17: “Movin’ Out.” A jukebox musical inspired by the music of Billy Joel.
Murry’s Dinner Playhouse
Times and prices vary. 6323 Col. Glenn Road, 562-3131, www.murrysdinnerplayhouse.com.
JAN. 8-FEB. 2: “Arsenic and Old Lace.”
FEB. 5-MARCH 2: “Social Security.”
MARCH 4-6: “Red Skelton: A Tribute by Tom Mullica.”
MARCH 7-9: “Bob Anderson.”
MARCH 11-APRIL 13: “Nunsense A-Men!”
APRIL 15-MAY 11: “Saving Grace.”
MAY 13-JUNE 15: “God’s Favorite.”
JUNE 17-JULY 13: “A Bad Year For Tomatoes.”
JULY 15-AUG. 24: “Guys and Dolls.”
AUG. 26-OCT. 5: “Smoke on the Mountain Homecoming.”
OCT. 7-12: “Eddie Miles.”
OCT. 12-14: “The Return,” a Beatles tribute.
OCT. 14-NOV. 16: “Catch Me If You Can.”
NOV. 18-DEC. 31: “There Goes the Bride.”
Weekend Theater
7:30 p.m. Fri. and Sat., 2:30 p.m. Sun. (for musicals only), Seventh and Chester streets, 374-3761, www.weekendtheater.org.
JAN. 18-FEB. 3: “Urinetown.” Satirical Tony Award-winning musical about small-town politics.
FEB. 8-9: “The Fever.” A fever-stricken man in a hotel room struggles to come to grips with the realities of inequality.
FEB. 22-MARCH 8: “Dancing at Lughnasa.” The story of five unmarried sisters eking out lives in a small village in 1930s Ireland.
MARCH 14-15: “Golda’s Balcony.” The life of Golda Meir.
MARCH 28-APRIL 12: “Fat Pig.” Neil LaBute’s scathing examination of our discrimination against the oversized.
MAY 2-18: A Double Bill: “Brundibar” and “Contact with the Enemy.” The former is a musical sung by children and set in a WWII concentration camp. The latter, a one-act, follows two veterans who meet in the Holocaust Museum and find they knew each other once.
MUSICAL GROUPS
American Guild of Organists,
Central Arkansas Chapter
374-2794, www.cacago.org.
JAN 18: Organ and orchestra concert. Cathedral of St. Andrew, Seventh and Louisiana streets. Free. 8 p.m.
Arkansas Chamber Singers
7:30 p.m., various venues, 377-1121, www.ar-chambersingers.org. Prices: $15 adults, $10 students and seniors.
MARCH 7: “Haydn’s Timpani Mass and the Little Organ Mass.” St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 1000 N. Mississippi St.
Arkansas Symphony Orchestra
All performances are at Robinson Center Music Hall unless noted. 666-1761, www.arkansassymphony.org. Various times.
JAN. 15: “The Magic of Sixty-Nine Strings,” Elisabeth Chardonnet, John Dahlstrand and the Rockefeller Quartet. Clinton Presidential Center.
JAN. 26-27: “Chopin & Rachmaninoff,” Navah Perlman.
FEB. 8-9: “Behind the Mask: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Weber and Modern Broadway.”
FEB. 12: “Song of Thanksgiving,” Quapaw Quartet, Clinton Presidential Center.
MARCH 1-2: “Eroica!” Eugene Rousseau.
MARCH 14-15: “Stars & Stripes & Pops!” Hosted by Gen. Wesley Clark with Paul Rowe and the LRAFB Color Guard.
MARCH 18: “Tango to Transfiguration,” Clinton Presidential Center.
MARCH 26: “The Masters: Joshua Bell,” Masterworks performance.
APRIL 11, 13: “Madame Butterfly,” Marie Plette, Mark Brown, Eugenie Grunewald and Phillip Kraus.
APRIL 22: “Classical Mystery Tour,” Pops, Live! series with members of the cast of “Beatlemania” performing with the ASO.
APRIL 29: “A Musical Bouquet,” Rockefeller and Sturgis Quartets with Krishana Thiagarian, Clinton Presidential Center.
Chamber Music Society of Little Rock
7:30 p.m., $20. St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 1000 N. Mississippi, 664-5823.
JAN. 29: Parker String Quartet.
MARCH 4: Jade Simmons, pianist.
Little Rock Wind Symphony
Usually 7:30 p.m. 666-0777, www.littlerockwindsymphony.org. $10 adults, $8 seniors, $5 students.
FEB. 21: “A Journey through Britain and Russia,” with Lorraine Duso, oboe, Second Presbyterian Church, $10.
APRIL 17: “Springtime!” with Liana Tyson, flute, 7:30 p.m., Second Presbyterian Church, $10.
JUNE 7: “A Stars & Stripes Celebration,” 7 p.m., MacArthur Park.
UALR Artspree
Times vary, Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Building, UALR, 2801 S. University Ave. 569-3288. $20 and $17 adults, $10 students, free for UALR students.
JAN. 20: Weston Hurt.
FEB. 10: Antares Chamber Ensemble.
APRIL 25: Chris Brubeck and Triple Play.
DANCE GROUPS
Arkansas Festival Ballet
Performs at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre, 601 Main St., and the Arkansas Arts Center. 227-5320, www.arkansasdance.org
JAN. 18-19: “Rep at the Rep,” the Arkansas Repertory Theater.
Other companies
Community Theatre of Little Rock
Woolly Auditorium, Arkansas School for the Blind, 2600 W. Markham, 663-9494.
The Public Theater
616 Center St., 374-7529
Music, dance and theater. Home for the revived Phoenix Theatre Co. and Improv Little Rock, a sketch-comedy group.
Red Octopus Productions
Easy Street Piano Bar, 307 W. Seventh St., www.myspace.com/redoctopustheater.
Seasonal shows featuring adult humor and comedy sketches.
Music Under the Steeple
Lakewood United Methodist Church, North Little Rock, 753-6186.
Natural State Brass Band
www.nsbb.org.
“Trinity Presents …”
Trinity United Methodist Church, 1101 N. Mississippi Ave., 377-1161. Musical productions. Free but a ticket is required. Call for reservations.
Ballet Arkansas
Performs at Robinson Center Music Hall. Office: 7509 Cantrell Road, Little Rock, 223-5150, www.balletarkansas.org.
Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts
20919 Denny Road, 821-7275
www.wildwoodpark.org
UALR Department of Dance
2801 S. University Ave., 569-3456.
