The Lyrique Quintette -- University of Arkansas at Fayetteville faculty members Ronda Mains, flute; Theresa Delaplain, oboe; Nophachai Cholthitchanta, clarinet; Timothy Thompson, French horn; and Lia Uribe, bassoon -- with a few props and a few friends will fool around a bit at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Ozark Hall, 340 N. Campus Drive, Fayetteville.
The April Fools' concert program will include music by Henry Mancini, P.D.Q. Bach, W.C. Handy, Paco D'Rivera, Malcolm Arnold and Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Admission is free. Call (479) 575-4701 or email music@uark.edu.
Local Live
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.
Donut humor
The deadbeat owner of a rundown doughnut shop may have gotten more than he bargained for when he hires an ambitious teenager to mind the counter as TheatreSquared stages Superior Donuts by Tracy Letts, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday through April 26 at Walton Arts Center's Nadine Baum Studios, 505 W. Spring St., Fayetteville.
Sean Patrick Reilly, a member of the play's original Broadway company who appeared in TheatreSquared's production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet in 2014, directs an ensemble cast that includes Grant Goodman, Bill Rogers, Thomas Brazzle, Bryce Kemph, Jenny McKnight, Kris Pruett, Nadine Pruvis Schmidt, Ross Stoner and Ryan Brooke Taylor.
The play contains mature language and themes. Production sponsors are Malcolm and Ellen Hayward. Tickets are $15-$40 (with a limited number $10 seats for patrons under 30). Call (479) 443-5600 or visit the website, theatre2.org.
'Passionate' Bach
The combined choirs of St. Paul's Episcopal Church and St. Joseph Catholic Church will perform portions of the Passion According to St. Matthew by Johann Sebastian Bach during Palm Sunday Evensong, 5:30 p.m. today at St. Paul's, 224 N. East Ave., Fayetteville. Charlie Rigsby will conduct singers and a small orchestra, with organist FrenLinda Kelly. Admission is free; child care will be available in the parish nursery. Visit the website, stpaulsfay.org.
Chekhov homage
Rogers Little Theater will stage the Arkansas premiere of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang, the 2013 Tony Award winner for Best Play, in a dinner-theater setting at 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday and April 9-11 and 2 p.m. April 5 and 12 at the Victory Theater, 116 S. Second St., Rogers.
Seating for meals begins 90 minutes before curtain. Dinner theater tickets are $48, $60 for cabaret tables that seat two, $17 for show-only balcony seats. Sponsors are Matthews, Campbell, Rhoads, McClure and Thompson P.A. and Paris Presents. Call (479) 631-8988 or visit the website, rogerslittletheater.org.
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.
SoNA auditions
The Fayetteville-based Symphony of Northwest Arkansas will hold auditions for the 2015-16 season April 23-24 at the Walton Arts Center's Nadine Baum Studios, 505 W. Spring St., Fayetteville, for assistant concertmaster, associate principal violin II, associate principal viola, associate principal bass, oboe II and oboe III/English horn, clarinet III/bass clarinet, trumpet III, principal tuba and string, wind and brass substitutes. Qualified applicants should send a one-page resume by 5 p.m. April 17 to Jarrett Bastow, personnel manager, at bastow.jarrett@gmail.com. (No telephone inquiries please.) A complete list of audition requirements is available online at sonamusic.org/orchestra-musicians.
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.
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 or 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