ENTERTAINMENT NOTES

Blues' Cray, rock's Foreigner to perform in NW Arkansas

Robert Cray performs Aug. 30 at the Auditorium in Eureka Springs
Robert Cray performs Aug. 30 at the Auditorium in Eureka Springs

Blues guitarist Robert Cray will perform with the Tulsa-based Steve Pryor Band at 8 p.m. Saturday at The Auditorium, 36 S. Main St., Eureka Springs. Cray is best known for his hit "Smoking Gun."

Tickets are $55 and $75. Call (479) 253-7333 or visit the website, theauditorium.org.

Foreigner in Rogers

Foreigner will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion, 5079 W. Northgate Road, Rogers. Tickets are $29-$53.50 plus handling fees. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit amptickets.com or arkansasmusicpavilion.com.

The group's 1970s and 1980s hits include "I Want to Know What Love Is," "Cold as Ice" and "Waiting for a Girl Like You."

Two Guvnors

TheatreSquared will open its ninth season with the comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, a new adaptation by Richard Bean of the classic farce The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Walton Arts Center's Nadine Baum Studios, 505 W. Spring St., Fayetteville.

Curtain times are 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and at 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday through Sept. 21. Tickets are $15-$38 (with a limited number of $10 tickets for patrons under 30 through the theater's "30 Under 30" program). Call (479) 443-5600 or visit the website, theatre2.org.

Bluegrass family

The Harper Family -- Dalton, Hannah, Gaylon, Katrina, Dillon and Makeena Harper -- will headline radio station KASU-FM, 91.9's "Bluegrass Monday" bluegrass gospel concert at 7 p.m. Monday at the Collins Theatre, 120 W. Emerson St., Paragould. The station will pass the hat to pay the group; suggested donation is $5 per person. Call (870) 972-2367 or email mscarbro@astate.edu.

Ceramic artist

Bottle Rocket Gallery, 1495 Finger Road, Fayetteville, will host an opening reception at 7 p.m. Saturday for ceramic artist Ginny Sims, whose work will be on display at the gallery until Sept. 30. Admission is free. Tusk and Trotter will provide food and Pink House Alchemy will provide drinks.

Sims, a Little Rock native, works in Minneapolis and teaches at the University of Minnesota there. She will give an artist talk at the University of Arkansas Department of Art Fine Arts Center at 5:30 p.m. Thursday.

Call (479) 466-3823 or visit the Facebook page, facebook.com/bottlerocketartgallery.

Who's Who

Peter Capaldi assuming the role of the 12th Doctor on BBC America's time-traveling series Doctor Who is a big enough deal that the show's season premiere, "Deep Breath," which debuted Saturday, will be on big screens -- 7 and 9:30 p.m. Monday at the Breckenridge Village 12 in Little Rock and the McCain Mall 12 in North Little Rock. The screenings will include 15 minutes of "cinema exclusive bonus content." Visit the website, FathomEvents.com, for tickets and ticket information.

Artspree season

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock's Artspree series opens at 3 p.m. Sept. 28 with a performance by the Kathakali Dance Drama with Indian dancer Kalamandalam Shanmukhan at the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Building, UALR, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock.

The performance will also feature a lecture by Indian scholar Viswanath Kaladharan.

The rest of the lineup (except as noted, all performances in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall):

• Oct. 10: Drummer W.S. "Fluke" Holland and the W.S. Holland Band, in conjunction with the exhibit "Johnny Cash: Arkansas Icon," 7:30 p.m., Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., Little Rock. Free.

• March 1: Guitarist Anton Baranov, winner of the 2013 Guitar Foundation of America Tour Prize, 3 p.m.

• April 10: "Carnival Show," Trevor Wye, flute, assisted by pianist Kaeko Suzuki, 7:30 p.m.

Except as noted, tickets are $15, $10 for students. Funding for the series comes from the UALR Chancellor's Circle Foundation and radio station KLRE-FM, 90.5. Call (501) 569-3294 or email music@ualr.edu.

Newport series

Eagles tribute group 7 Bridges will open the Arkansas State University-Newport 2014-15 Patron Series with "The Ultimate Eagles Experience" at 7 p.m. Oct. 25 in the university's Center for the Arts, 7648 Victory Blvd., Newport.

The rest of the lineup (all performances, 7 p.m., Center for the Arts):

• Dec. 9: A Christmas Carol (musical), touring production of the Palace Theatre in Manchester, N.H., featuring 50 area high-school choir students.

• April 18: Masters of Soul, 10-person ensemble, performing Motown hits.

Season tickets, $60, go on sale Sept. 1. Call (870) 512-7802.

Style on 08/24/2014

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