Singer-songwriter Jackson Browne will perform with special guests Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion, 5079 W. Northgate Road, Rogers. Doors open at 6. Tickets are $31-$71, plus applicable fees. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit the website, arkansasmusicpavilion.com.
Joining Browne on the road are longtime band mates Bob Glaub (bass), Mauricio Lewak (drums), Jeff Young (Hammond organ, piano), Chavonne Stewart (vocals), Alethea Mills (vocals) and Greg Leisz (guitar, lap steel, pedal steel). Browne's hits include "Running on Empty" and "Doctor My Eyes."
Ballet 'tour'
Ballet Arkansas will make three appearances around the state:
• 6 p.m. Thursday, "Ballet and Blooms," a fundraiser at Garvan Woodland Gardens, 550 Arkridge Road, Hot Springs. The program will include Tom Rudd's Mobile, excerpts from Greg Sample's Rerouting, the "Sugar Plum" Variation from The Nutcracker and excerpts from Marius Peptipa's Raymonda. $85; $600 for a table for eight. Make reservations by Monday. Visit garvangardens.org.
• 7:30 p.m., Oct. 30, "Meet Ballet Arkansas," Arkansas Hall Auditorium at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia. Company members will perform Rerouting, the Act I "Pas de Deux" from Val Caniparoli's Lady of the Camellias and excerpts from Raymonda, with introductions, comments and interaction with artistic director Michael Bearden. Tickets are $8 (free with an HSU Student ID). Call (870) 230-5291 or email theatre@hsu.edu.
• 7 p.m. Nov. 3, a performance of "Who Cares?" under the auspices of the Southeast Arkansas Concert Association in the Fine Arts Center of the University of Arkansas at Monticello, including Rerouting, excerpts from Raymonda, the "Pas de Deux" from Lady of the Camellias and George Balanchine's Who Cares? (concert version) to music by George Gershwin. Tickets are $15. Call (870) 460-1060 or visit searkconcert.org.
Call (501) 223-5150 or visit balletarkansas.org.
Chinese acrobats
The Golden Dragon Acrobats will perform at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Center for the Arts at Arkansas State University-Newport, 7648 Victory Blvd., Newport. Tickets are $25, $10 for children 12 and younger. Call (870) 512-7802 or visit the website, tickets.asun.edu.
Star-crossed shows
The Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre's 10th anniversary season will include two full-length plays by William Shakespeare -- the comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream (the outdoor production) and the tragedy Romeo and Juliet, plus the mid-20th-century musical take on the latter play, West Side Story (music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Arthur Laurents) in June 2016 at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway and at least one other central Arkansas venue.
A one-hour "Family Shakespeare" adaptation of the comedy Twelfth Night will tour to venues around the state, including Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, North Little Rock's Argenta Arts District and the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute on Petit Jean Mountain in Morrilton.
In addition, the theater, to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, will partner with the Conway Symphony Orchestra on a performance of Sergei Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet involving Shakespeare's text, and a copy of Shakespeare's First Folio, on a U.S. tour, will be on display June 7-July 12 in UCA's Baum Gallery.
Call (501) 852-0702 or visit arkshakes.com.
Treasure nominations
The Arkansas Arts Council is taking nominations through Nov. 6 for the 2016 Arkansas Living Treasure, which honors an Arkansan "outstanding in the creation of a traditional craft who has significantly contributed to the preservation of the art form."
Artists who work in traditional craft forms, including weaving, broom-making, leather-working, metalsmithing and wood carving, toy making and doll-making are eligible. Nomination forms are available online at arkansasarts.org; call (501) 324-9766.
Style on 10/11/2015