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Theater, ballet, puppets, jazz on Walton Arts lineup

Jazz pianist and vocalist Diana Krall performs Nov. 19 at Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center.
Jazz pianist and vocalist Diana Krall performs Nov. 19 at Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center.

Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center has added an 8 p.m. Nov. 19 performance by five-time Grammy-winning jazz pianist and vocalist Diana Krall to its 2015-16 season.

The complete season by series (curtain times and other specifics are available at the website, waltonartscenter.com):

Procter & Gamble Broadway Series

Pippin, Nov. 10-15

Kinky Boots, Jan. 19-24

Mamma Mia!, Feb. 9-14

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, March 1-6

The Bridges of Madison County, April 19-24

Popcorn Indiana American Music Series

Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn, Feb. 19

Mavis Staples & Nick Lowe, March 12

A Night With Janis Joplin, March 17-18

Coca-Cola Night Out Series

Reinventing Radio: An Evening With Ira Glass, Jan. 16

L.A. Theater Works: Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Jan. 28

Classic Albums Live presents The Beatles’ Abbey Road, Jan. 30

Keb’ Mo’, April 16

The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, National Theatre of Scotland, May 6-8

Kimberly-Clark Family Fun Series

Me & My Shadow, Patch Theatre Company Nov. 6

Annie, Nov. 24-29

The National Circus and Acrobats of the People’s Republic of China, Dec. 11-12

Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia, Feb. 21

The Sound of Music, Salzburg Marionette Theatre, March 8

Love That Dog, Theatergroep Kwatta, April 3

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, May 6-8

10x10 Arts Series (except as noted, all performances at 7 p.m.)

Paragon Ragtime Orchestra presents The Clown Princes of Silent Comedy, Nov. 17, accompanying a screening of three short films starring Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd.

Pianist Simone Dinnerstein plays J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations, 8 p.m. Jan. 8

BalletBoyz, all-male dance troupe, Feb. 4

Danu, Irish band from County Waterford, 4 p.m. March 13

The Swingles, a cappella vocal group headlining the center’s second annual Voice-Jam Festival, 8 p.m. April 1

Hubbard Street Dance, 8 p.m. April 9

An Evening With Branford Marsalis, April 12

Malpaso Dance Company With Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Octet, April 28

DakhaBrakha, Ukranian “ethno chaos” group, May 1

Artosphere Festival Orchestra, 7:30 p.m. May 24

Home for the Holidays

The Snowman: A Family Concert, Symphony of Northwest Arkansas, Dec. 6

Jim Brickman Comfort & Joy, Dec. 13

Christmas With Sonos Handbell Ensemble, Dec. 14

Home Free: Full of Cheer, Dec. 15

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Musical, Dec. 21-23

LOL@WAC Comedy Series

Paula Poundstone, Feb. 5

Menopause the Musical: The Survivor Tour, April 10

Festivals

VoiceJam A Cappella Festival, April 1-2

Artosphere Festival, May TBA

Art of Wine, June 9-11

Broadway Series subscriptions are $147-$350. Subscriber prices for individual Annie tickets: $25.80-$66.80. Season tickets for the 10x10 Arts Series are $100. Single tickets, $8 to $97, will be available in August; Create Your Own subscriptions provide $2 off per ticket. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit waltonartscenter.org.

Blytheville season

The Arts Council of Mississippi County will open its 2015-16 season 7 p.m. Sept. 19 at the Ritz Civic Center, 306 W. Main St., Blytheville, with a bluegrass concert by BlueRoad and the Charles Moody String Band.

The rest of the schedule (except as noted, all performances 7 p.m. at the Ritz):

Dec. 5: Memphis Wind Symphony

April 1: Springer Theatricals’ touring production of the musical A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline, with annual gala pre-show Meet the Artists reception

April 15: Princess Thimbelina, 9-foot-tall puppets from Bits ’N Pieces Puppet Theater, 6:30 p.m..

Patron subscriptions, $125, include tickets, complimentary refreshments and admission to private “Meet the Artist” receptions for each event. Tickets for BlueRoad, Memphis Wind Symphony and A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline are $15 in advance, $20 at door; for Princess Thimbelina, $10 advance, $15 at door. Admission is free for children 12 and younger with an adult. Call (870) 762-1744 or visit artsmissco.org.

Tony Bennett tickets

Tickets — $70-$125 — go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for an 8 p.m. Dec. 18 concert by Tony Bennett, with Bennett’s daughter Antonia opening the show, at the Orpheum Theatre, 203 S. Main St., Memphis.

Call (901) 525-3000 or Ticketmaster at (901) 743-2787 (ARTS) or visit the website, orpheum-memphis.com.

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