Hard rock band Whitesnake and special guests the Dead Daisies perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion, 5079 W. Northgate Road, Rogers.
Doors open at 6. Tickets are $31 for lawn seating, $51 for seats in Section B-D. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit amptickets.com.
Bluegrass Festival
Friday and Saturday concerts at The Auditorium, 36 S. Main St., Eureka Springs, anchor the annual Eureka Springs Bluegrass Festival.
At 7 p.m. Friday, performers include Mary Parker; Dragon Masters; Pam Setzer; the Clark Family with Bill Nesbitt; and the Tennessee Gentlemen. At 7 p.m. Saturday, performers include Myron Flippin; Buddy Griffin & Clancey Ferguson; Setzer and Mountain View Friends featuring Donny Catron; the Clark Family with Nesbitt; Buffalo City Ramblers; Cutthroat Montana; and Tim Crouch and Irl Hees.
Tickets for each concert are $20, $12 for children 16 and younger, $35 and $20 for both nights. Visit the website, theaud.org.
The festival kicks off at 7 p.m. Thursday in Basin Spring Park with a watermelon social and open jam. Admission, watermelon and bottled water are free. Participating performers will provide music in the Basin Spring Park band shell, noon-5 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
Museum School
Registration opens Aug. 17 for current students and Aug. 24 for new students for the Arkansas Arts Center Museum School at the Arts Center in MacArthur Park, Ninth and Commerce streets, Little Rock. Novice to professional adult classes, Sept. 12-Nov. 20, range from photography and drawing to jewelry-making and ceramics. Register online and find a complete schedule at the website, arkansasartscenter.org/art-classes. The Youth Fall Session runs Sept. 12-Oct. 18. Visit ArkansasArtsCenter.org/youth-classes.
Dance master class
Ballet Arkansas is offering a master class with Glenn Edgerton of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, 1:30-3 p.m. Aug. 22 in Studio 129, Center for the Performing Arts, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave. Fee is $25 to participate, $15 to observe. Call (501) 223-5150 or visit balletarkansas.org.
Dance registration
Western Arkansas Ballet Studios, 4701 Grand Ave., Fort Smith, will register students for 2015-16, 4-6 p.m. Aug 19. Class schedules and tuition information are available at waballet.org. Call (479) 785-0152.
Children's Theatre
The Arkansas Arts Center Children's Theatre will open its 2015-16 season Sept. 18-Oct. 4 with Puss in Boots (adapted by Keith Smith from the fable by Charles Perrault) at the Arts Center in Little Rock. The rest of the Main Stage lineup (except as noted, shows are 7 p.m. Friday, 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday):
• Oct. 23-Nov. 8: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, adapted by Frederick Gaines from the story by Washington Irving.
• Dec. 4-20: The Gingerbread Man by Keith Smith.
• Jan. 29-Feb. 14: The 13 Clocks, adapted by Keith Smith from the book by James Thurber.
• March 4-25: Schoolhouse Rock Live!, adapted and produced for the stage by Theatre Bam from the series created by George Newall and Tom Yohe and based on an idea by David McCall. Music and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, Bob Dorough, Dave Frishberg, Kathy Mandry, Newall and Yohe; book by Scott Ferguson, George Keating and Kyle Hall. Spring Break matinees, 2 p.m. March 22-25.
• April 22-May 8: The Adventures of Peter Rabbit, adapted by Keith Smith from the stories of Beatrix Potter.
Children's Theatre will also offer three Studio Shows, a new series, smaller in size and budget and intended, according to a news release, "to provide space to explore new ideas and themes ... [and to] showcase actors and ideas over scenery and properties." All shows are at 7 p.m. Friday, 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Arts Center:
• Aug. 28-Sept. 6: The Ugly Duckling, a shadow play devised and directed by Katie Campbell, with three actor-puppeteers, two overhead projectors, more than 60 paper puppets and music by Jessica Drake Mosher, to be performed by an ensemble from the Arkansas Symphony Youth Orchestra, directed by Geoffrey Robson, with a grant from the Jim Henson Foundation.
• Oct. 9-11: Apollo: To the Moon by Mary Hall Surface with music by Lori Isner.
• Feb. 19-28: The Odyssey, adapted by Keith Smith from Homer's epic poem; music by Isner.
Main Stage season tickets are $36-$275. Individual tickets are $12.50. "Pay What You Can" tickets ($1 minimum) are available for 7 p.m. Thursday previews of each Main Stage show. Studio Show tickets are $10. Call (501) 372-4000 or visit ArkansasArtsCenter.org/theater.
ASU series
Actor Mike Farrell, who played B.J. Hunnicut on the TV series MAS*H, will offer his one-man show, Dr. Keeling's Curve, at 8 p.m. Sept. 25, to open the 2015-16 Riceland Distinguished Performance Series at Arkansas State University's Fowler Center, 201 Olympic Drive, Jonesboro. The rest of the lineup (except as noted, all shows, 7:30 p.m. at the Fowler Center):
• Oct. 16: The Magic of David Garrard.
• Nov. 6: Arkansas Symphony "Beethoven and Blue Jeans." Clarinetist Kelly Johnson will solo in Scott McAllister's Black Dog. Philip Mann also conducts Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 and the suite from Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.
• Dec. 6: Boston Brass, "Christmas Bells Are Swingin'," 2 p.m.
mFeb. 15: Cantus, nine-member men's a cappella vocal ensemble.
• March 17: Dukes of Dixieland.
• April 4: The Huntertones, six-piece Brooklyn-based instrumental group.
The Fowler Center will also offer the "family-friendly" Super Scientific Circus, starring Mr. Fish and Trent the Mime, sponsored by the Arkansas Science Festival, at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Oct. 9.
Individual Riceland Distinguished Performance Series tickets are $30 and $20, $23 and $15 for senior citizens and students, with discounts for faculty, staff and students with ID. Call (870) 972-3471, (870) 972-2781 or (888) 278-3267, or visit AState.edu/tickets or yourfowlercenter.com.
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