Fayetteville-based R.J. Mischo and His Red Hot Blues Band kicks off the Oxford American's second-quarter Local Live concert series at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at South on Main, 1304 Main St., Little Rock.
The rest of the April-June lineup:
• April 8: Cutty Rye
• April 15: SeanFresh
• April 22: David Rosen Septet
• April 29: Tonya Leeks Band
• May 6: Cindy Woolf & Mark Bilyeu
• May 13: Rodney Block & The Love Supreme
• May 20: Fret & Worry
• May 27: Luke Pruitt
• June 3: Cutthroat Trout
• June 10: The Muses present "Guys and Dolls Cabaret"
• June 17: Stuart Baer with Bugtussle Slim
• June 24: Sad Daddy.
Admission to all concerts is free. Series sponsor is Cosmic Cowboy Music. Call (501) 244-9660 or visit the website, southonmain.com, or the Facebook page, facebook.com/SouthonMainLR.
Orpheum concerts
Singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan will perform at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Memphis' Orpheum Theatre, 203 S. Main St., Memphis. Tickets are $43-$83.
And husband-wife duo guitarist Derek Trucks and singer Susan Tedeschi will lead in the 11-member Tedeschi Trucks Band at 8 p.m. Thursday. Tickets are $45-$79.
Call (901) 525-3000 or (800) 745-3000 or visit the websites, orpheum-memphis.com or ticketmaster.com.
Architecture lecture
Peter Gluck, founder and principal of the Gluck + firm in New York, will deliver a lecture titled "What's Wrong With Us" at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the lecture hall of the Arkansas Arts Center in MacArthur Park, East Ninth and Commerce streets, Little Rock. A 5:30 reception will precede the lecture, under the banner of the Architecture and Design Network. Admission is free. Email ardenetwork@icloud.com.
Zeppelin on screen
Led Zeppelin, featuring concert footage spanning the band's career, will be on the big screen at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Tinseltown in Benton. It's part of Fathom Events' "Classic Music Series." Ticket information is available at FathomEvents.com.
Audition workshop
Andrew Bourgoin, a musical director, coach and pianist based in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minn., will conduct a master-class workshop on "Auditioning for the Musical Theater" at 1:30 p.m. Thursday in Reynolds Performance Hall, University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway.
Bourgoin will work with selected students on audition pieces, talk about the professional musical theater world and take audience questions. Admission is free and the class is open to the public. Call (501) 450-5092 or email rbrowne@uca.edu.
He will also work with the UCA Theatre program on the production of the musical comedy Lucky Stiff prior to performances at 7:30 p.m. April 9-10 and 16-17 and 2:30 p.m. April 11 in Bridges/Larson Theatre of UCA's Snow Fine Arts Center.
Dinner pops
The University of Arkansas at Monticello Music Theatre Workshop will host a Dinner Pops Concert at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday (postponed from March 5 because of inclement weather) in the Green Room, John F. Gibson University Center at UAM. The Workshop and UAM Chamber Choir will perform selections from the university's spring musical, Little Shop of Horrors, plus selections from Oliver! and Les Miserables. Kent Skinner directs.
Baritone Scott Bearden, UAM's visiting artist in voice, will sing "Some Enchanted Evening" from Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific and "The Impossible Dream" from Man of La Mancha.
Doors open at 6. Tickets are $25. Call (870) 460-1060.
Herbs and stories
Naturalist, herbalist and storyteller Doug Elliott will perform "Stories, Songs, and Lore Celebrating the Natural World" at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the White Oak Auditorium at Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View. Tickets are $10.
Elliott will also be teaching and telling stories during the Medicinal Herb Field Trip and Workshop, Friday-Saturday at the center. A schedule and information about fees is available at ozarkfolkcenter.com; call (870) 269-3851.
Macbeth auditions
The Arkansas Repertory Theatre will hold local auditions April 19, by appointment only, for its 2015-16 MainStage season opener, William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Actors will perform a two-minute Shakespeare monologue of their choosing. Callbacks will be scheduled to read for specific roles.
Director Robert Hupp is seeking an ethnically diverse company of physically fit, Actors' Equity and non-Equity actors, ages 18-55. Stage combat and previous Shakespeare experience are a plus. All roles are available; some actors may be hired to play multiple roles. All roles are paid.
Rehearsals begin Aug. 11; production dates are Sept. 11-27. To schedule an appointment, email Company Manager/Casting Associate Peter Mensky at pmensky@therep.org; put "Macbeth Local Request'" as the subject line.
Style on 03/29/2015