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9 awarded arts fellowships

The United States Navy Band’s Country Current country-bluegrass group will perform Wednesday in Helena-West Helena, Sept. 22 in Bentonville and Sept. 23 in Alma.
The United States Navy Band’s Country Current country-bluegrass group will perform Wednesday in Helena-West Helena, Sept. 22 in Bentonville and Sept. 23 in Alma.

The Arkansas Arts Council has named the nine recipients of its $4,000 Individual Artist Fellowship awards in three categories:

• Literary Arts -- Short Story Writing: Marla Cantrell of Alma and Alice Otto and Hung Pham of Fayetteville

• Performing Arts -- Directing of Theater Productions: Amy Herzberg of Fayetteville's TheatreSquared, Kassie Misiewicz of Bentonville's Trike Theatre for Youth and Rebekah Scallet of Little Rock, producing artistic director for the Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway

• Visual Arts -- Works on Paper: still-life artist Sheila Cantrell of Batesville, artist and printmaker Delita S. Martin of Little Rock and photographer Kathryn "Kat" Wilson of Fayetteville.

The Arts Council and the Historic Arkansas Museum will hold a reception, 5:30-8 p.m. Oct. 3 at the museum, 200 E. Third St., Little Rock. Admission is free; reservations are required. Call (501) 324-9766.

Navy bluegrass

The United States Navy Band's Country Current country-bluegrass group will give three Arkansas concerts this month:

• 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Lily Peter Auditorium, Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas, 1000 Campus Drive, Helena-West Helena. The concert is part of the 2014-15 Warfield Concert Series. Admission is by free ticket, available at warfieldconcerts.com. Call (870) 338-8327.

• 7 p.m., Sept. 22, Arend Arts Center, 1901 S.E. J St., Bentonville. Admission is free. (479) 254-5161.

• 7 p.m. Sept. 23, Alma Performing Arts Center, 103 E. Main St., Alma. Admission by free ticket. Call (479) 632-2129 or visit almapac.org.

Kafka concept

The Torn Kite Theatre Company will stage Considered Guilty: A New Play Based on the Stories of Franz Kafka, adapted by director Josh Segal and cast member John Mooney, at 7 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday at the Studio Theatre, 320 W. Seventh St, Little Rock. Tickets are $15. Call (501) 613-1318.

Onstage, onscreen

Movie theaters across the country, including the Breckenridge Village 12 in Little Rock, Razorback 16 in Fayetteville and the Fort Smith Cinema in Fort Smith, will screen the Young Vicproduction of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire at 7 p.m. Tuesday, to be recorded earlier that day from London's Young Vic Theatre. Gillian Anderson plays Blanche DuBois, with Ben Foster as Stanley Kowalski and Vanessa Kirby as Stella. Tickets are available through FathomEvents.com.

Weekend auditions

The Weekend Theater, West Seventh and Chester streets, Little Rock, will hold auditions at 10 a.m. Sept. 27 and 6 p.m. Sept. 28 for two plays:

Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz. Roles are available for two men, one playing in his 60s-70s, the other in his 30s, and two women, one playing in her 50s-70s and the other playing in her 40s. The role of the mother, Polly Wyeth, has been precast. Ralph Hyman (ralphhyman@yahoo.com) directs. Rehearsals run Nov. 1-Dec. 4 (with a Thanksgiving break); production dates are Dec. 5-20.

No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre. Parts are available for a man (late 20s-40s), two women (also late 20s-40s), and one character of unspecified sex and age. Tom Tinker (tomktinker@gmail.com) directs. Rehearsals are Dec. 6-Jan. 15 (with a Christmas break); production dates are Jan. 16-31.

Auditions will consist of cold readings from the scripts; no preparation is necessary. Print, fill out and take the online audition form (tinyurl.com/l2oblha) and take a photo if you don't have a recent one on file. Call (501) 374-3761 or visit weekendtheater.org.

Singers' season

The Arkansas Chamber Singers will kick off their 2014-15 season, with the theme "Beauty Born in Battle," with a program centering on the Mass No. 10 in C major, "Missa in tempore belli" ("Mass in Time of War") by Franz Joseph Haydn, at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10 at St. James United Methodist Church, 321 Pleasant Valley Drive, Little Rock. (The piece is sometimes called the "Paukenmesse," or "Kettledrum Mass," because of the composer's use of the timpani.)

The concert, with soloists and players from the Arkansas Symphony, will also include Regina coeli, K.276, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

The rest of the schedule (all concerts 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday, Old State House, Old State House Museum, 300 W. Markham St., Little Rock):

• Dec. 12-14: ''Holiday Concert: Christmas.'' Free.

• March 13-15, "Music of the Civil War Era," Old State House. Choral music composed during, performed during or inspired by the American Civil War, including works by Giuseppe Verdi, Johannes Brahms and Stephen Foster.

A season subscription -- admission and special reserved seating for all three concerts and a coupon for a performance CD -- are $35, $25 for senior citizens (60 plus), $20 for students. Individual tickets are $22, $15 senior citizens, $10 students in advance, $25, $20 at the door door. Call (501) 377-1121 or visit the website, AR-ChamberSingers.org.

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