Entertainment Notes

Quintet to spotlight Mozart in 'A' concert at NLR church

Tatiana Roitman Mann solos in a chamber version of W.A. Mozart’s "Piano Concerto No. 23" on Monday at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in North Little Rock.
Tatiana Roitman Mann solos in a chamber version of W.A. Mozart’s "Piano Concerto No. 23" on Monday at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in North Little Rock.

The St. Luke's Festival of the Senses series kicks off its 2015-16 season with "Mozart in A," with Tatiana Roitman Mann, piano; Kiril Laskarov and Eric Hayward, violins; Katherine Williamson, viola; and Stephen Feldman, cello; performing music in the key of A major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 7 p.m. Monday at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 4106 John F. Kennedy Blvd., North Little Rock.

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Pedro Fernandez headlines a Saturday concert at the Walmart AMP in Rogers.

Mann will be the soloist in the Piano Concerto No. 23. The program will also include the first movement of Mozart's Symphony No. 29.

Admission is free. A meet-the-artists-reception will follow in St. Luke's parish hall. Call (501) 753-4281 or visit the St. Luke's Festival of the Senses Facebook page.

Latin ballads

Latin actor/balladeer Pedro Fernandez will perform with special guest Ninel Conde at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion, 5079 W. Northgate Road, Rogers. Doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets are $31-$71 plus applicable fees. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit amptickets.com.

Bench warrant

Bickering friends (Don Bolinger and director Roger M. Eaves) and a once-famous actress (Laurie Pascale) join forces to prevent the sale of their retirement home and subsequent forced relocation in A Bench in the Sun by Ron Clark, Tuesday-Oct. 3 at Murry's Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock.

Show times are 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday (matinees only Wednesday, Sept. 9 and 16), 12:45 and 6:45 p.m. Sunday. Dinner starts 90 minutes before curtain time. Tickets are $32-$36, $23 for children 15 and under and $25 and $15 show-only. Call (501) 562-3131 or visit murrysdp.com.

Faculty recital

Arkansas State University music faculty members Sarah Jones-Hayes, violin, and Daniel Tacke, harpsichord, will give a recital at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Fine Arts Center Recital Hall at ASU. The program will include the premiere of Tacke's Aria mit veranderungen and works by Dietrich Buxtehude, Johann Paul von Westhoff and Johann Sebastian Bach. Admission is free. Call (870) 972-2094.

Mallet, glass, gun

Bottle Rocket Gallery, 1495 Finger Road, Fayetteville, will host an opening party at 7 p.m. Saturday that includes a 7:30 performance of "Gun Piece No. 1" by Jordan Wayne Long, a Bald Knob native, now a performance and video artist in Los Angeles. The work will include a mallet, a glass and a gun. Long (jordanwaynelong.com) will discuss his work for the University of Arkansas art department at 5:30 p.m. Thursday in the UA Fine Arts Building. Admission is free. Call (479) 466-3823 or visit facebook.com/bottlerocketartgallery.

Addams auditions

Arkansas Public Theatre will hold auditions for The Addams Family (music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, based on characters created by Charles Addams) at 7 p.m. Sept. 14 at the Victory Theater, 116 S. Second St, Rogers.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for auditioners only. Auditions will be based upon readings from the script, music from the show and a dance combination. An audition packet, including the audition scenes, character descriptions, music and rehearsal schedule, will be available for download approximately two weeks before auditions at arkansaspublictheatre.org. Callbacks, if necessary, will take place at 7 p.m. Sept. 15 at the same location.

Production dates are Oct. 30-31, Nov. 1, 5-8 and 12-15. Call (479) 631-8988.

Broadway Season

Elvis Lives, a tribute show featuring three performers representing Elvis Presley during different stages in his career, kicks off Celebrity Attractions' 2015-16 Broadway Season, Oct. 23-25: 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Maumelle Performing Arts Center, 100 Victory Lane, Maumelle. The show also features a band, back-up singers and dancers and an Ann-Margret "tribute artist."

The rest of the lineup (all shows, same curtain times, same venue):

• Dec. 18-20: Neil Berg's Broadway Holiday, musical revue with five Broadway singer-actors performing Christmas tunes from Broadway scores and The Great American Songbook.

• Feb. 19-21: Annie, music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, book by Thomas Meehan.

• April 15-17: Ragtime, music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, book by Terrence McNally.

Season subscriptions are $135-$275. Call (501) 244-8800 or visit the website, CelebrityAttractions.com.

Style on 08/30/2015

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