Fernando Varela, the featured tenor in America's Got Talent finalist group Forte, will perform popular and opera classics at 2 p.m. today at the Arend Arts Center, 1901 S.E. J St., Bentonville. Tickets are $25, $5 for students. Call (479) 855-9997 or visit the website, LiveOnStageNWA.com.
Uke juke
Hawaiian ukulele player Jake Shimabukuro will perform at 8 p.m. Friday in Baum Walker Hall at Fayetteville's Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St. The performance is part of the center's 10x10 Arts Series. Tickets are $10-$25 . Call (479) 443-5600 or visit the website, waltonartscenter.org.
Guitarist x 2
Guitarist Joe Bonamassa will play two sets at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Theater @ Verizon Arena, the reduced-size concert venue inside the North Little Rock arena.
The first will be an hour-long full acoustic set with the band from his chart-topping CD and DVD, An Acoustic Evening at the Vienna Opera House (Gerry O'Connor, Mats Wester and Lenny Castro), the second in electric mode featuring his regular touring band -- Carmine Rojas, bass; Tal Bergman, drums; and Derek Sherinian, keyboards.
Tickets are $79, $89, $99 and $125. Call (800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com.
Talent for Murder
A wealthy, older writer lives in a mansion with her physician and a valuable art collection that her relatives covet as the Fort Smith Little Theatre, 401 N. Sixth St., Fort Smith, stages A Talent for Murder by Jerome Chodorov and Norman Panama, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and Nov. 19-22 and 2 p.m. Nov. 16 and 23.
Co-sponsors are AT&T and Arvest Bank. Tickets for Thursday's gala opening are $25; for all other shows, $10. Call (479) 783-2966 or visit the website, fslt.org.
The theater has also announced its 2015 season:
• Feb. 12-22: Pride and Prejudice, adapted by Jon Jory from the novel by Jane Austen
• April 9-19: Don't Dress for Dinner (sequel to Boeing Boeing) by Marc Camoletti, adapted by Robin Hawdon
• May 28-June 7: The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffee, adapted by Julie Kramer
• July 23-Aug. 8: Disney's Beauty and the Beast, music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, book by Linda Woolverton
• Sept. 17-27: Curtain Up on Murder by Bettine Manktelow
• Nov. 12-22: Rumors by Neil Simon
Off-season productions:
• Feb. 26-28: Be My Baby by Ken Ludwig
• Oct. 1-3: Four by Tenn, four one-acts by Tennessee Williams
• Dec. 10-12: A Wackier Tackier Christmas
Season tickets -- $55; opening-night gala, $100 -- don't include the off-season shows. Call (479) 783-2966 or visit fslt.org/cms/season-ticket-order-form.
Chamber concert
The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra's Rockefeller Quartet (Katherine Williamson and Trisha McGovern, violins; Katherine Reynolds, viola; and Daniel Cline, cello) will play the String Quartet No. 1 by ASO Composer of the Year John Corigliano and the Italian Serenade by Hugo Wolf, and the orchestra's Quapaw Quartet (Eric Hayward and Meredith Maddox Hicks, violins; Katrina Weeks, viola; and David Gerstein, cello) will play the String Quartet No. 9 in C major, op.59, No. 3, "Razumovsky," by Ludwig van Beethoven for the orchestra's Rhapsodies Chamber Music Series, 7 p.m. Tuesday Nov. 11 in the Great Hall of the Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock.
Tickets are $23, $10 for students and active duty military. Call (501) 666-1761, Extension 100, or visit the website, ArkansasSymphony.org.
Murry's concerts
Murry's Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock, will offer two interstitial concert acts this week between dinner theater productions:
• Jason Petty and his band pay tribute to Hank Williams with Hank and My Honky Tonk Heroes, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and 12:30 and 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.
• Eddie Miles covers the songs of Elvis Presley and his transition from country and gospel to rock 'n' roll, then performs selections by Johnny Cash, Conway Twitty and Marty Robbins, among others, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday.
Doors and the buffet open 90 minutes before curtain. Tickets are $31-$35, $23 for children 15 and younger; show only, $25, $15 for children. Call (501) 562-3131 or visit murrysdp.com.
Architecture lecture
Janne Terasvirta, one of the founding partners and the chief executive of Helsinki, Finland-based ALA Architects, will discuss the importance of public space in our urbanizing world and the ways in which architecture can better serve the needs of people in growing, changing communities in a talk titled "Re: Public Architecture," 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Lecture Hall of the Arkansas Arts Center, MacArthur Park, East Ninth and Commerce streets, Little Rock.
The lecture is under the auspices of the Architecture and Design Network, which includes the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville's Fay Jones School of Architecture, the Arts Center and the Central Section of the Arkansas Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Admission is free; a 5:30 p.m. reception precedes the lecture. Email ardenetwork@icloud.com.
Style on 11/09/2014