Ira Glass, host and creator of the public radio program This American Life, will combine narration with taped quotes and music onstage to re-create the sound of the radio show in "Reinventing Radio: An Evening With Ira Glass," 8 p.m. Saturday at Fayetteville's Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St., kicking off the center's 2015-16 Coca-Cola Night Out Series.
Tickets are $18-$48 plus applicable fees. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit waltonartscenter.org.
'Moonlight' at Murry's
It's 1939 and producer David O. Selznick (director Don Bolinger) has a cast in place and cameras are rolling on Gone With the Wind. There's just one problem -- he doesn't have a script. That's the basis behind the comedy Moonlight and Magnolias, Tuesday-Feb. 6 at Murry's Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock.
Roger M. Eaves plays screenwriter Ben Hecht, with Jeff Bailey as director Victor Fleming and Brooke Wallace as Miss Poppenghul.
Show times are 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday (12:45 Wednesday matinees only Jan. 13, 20 and 27), 12:45 and 6:45 p.m. Sunday. Buffet opens 90 minutes before curtain. Tickets are $32-$36, $23 for children 15 and under; $25 and $15 show only. Call (501) 562-3131 or visit murrysdp.com.
Swapping stories
Ozark Storytellers will hold its monthly story swap and potluck on Tuesday -- potluck 5-6 p.m., story time 6-8 p.m. -- in the Administration Building at the Ozark Folk Center, 1032 Park Ave., Mountain View. Tellers are invited to reveal family stories, tales from their personal history, tall tales or folk tales in a round-robin format; listeners are welcome. Admission is free. Call (870) 269-3851 or visit ozarkfolkcenter.com.
Auditions
• The Royal Theatre, 111 S. Market St., Benton, will hold auditions for Shrek: The Musical at 6 p.m. Jan. 30-31, with callbacks, if necessary, at 6 p.m. Feb. 2. Director Mark A. Burbank and choreographer Justin A. Pike are seeking an ethnically diverse company in a large range of ages. Most roles are for adults but there are some for children.
Auditioners should be at least 7 years old; prepare 32 bars of a song either from, or in the same style of, the show that best features your vocal ability and personality, and provide sheet music for the accompanist. The audition will also include a dance call; some auditioners may be asked to do a cold reading from the script. Provide a head shot and resume if you have one. Rehearsals begin March 3; production dates are April 14-17 and 21-24. Call (501) 315-5483.
• The Hot Springs Children's Dance Theatre will hold open auditions for Peter Pan Feb. 13 at its studio, 321 Section Line Road, Suite G, Hot Springs. Auditions will be 10-11 a.m. for dancers 5-9; 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. for dancers 10-13; 1-2:30 p.m. for dancers 14 and older. Arrive early to register. Performance dates are May 27-29 and June 3-5. Call (501) 655-6815 or email hotspringscdt@gmail.com.
Matilda in Memphis
An extraordinary girl, armed with a vivid imagination and a sharp mind, dares to take a stand and change her own destiny in Matilda the Musical (music and lyrics by Tim Minchin, book by Dennis Kelly, based on the novel by Roald Dahl). The Royal Shakespeare Company and the Dodgers' first national tour will be onstage 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 1 and 6:30 p.m. Jan. 17 at the Orpheum Theatre, 203 S. Main St., Memphis. Tickets are $25-$125. Call (901) 525-3000 or (901) 743-2787 or visit orpheum-memphis.com.
Artist residencies
Friday is the deadline to apply for Hot Springs National Park's 2016 Artist-In-Residence program, open to professional two-dimensional visual artists and photographers.
A panel will convene in February to select artists for May, July and September appointments, two to four weeks in length. The three artists will be registered as National Park Service volunteers and will not receive financial compensation; however, they will have free use of the historic cabin at Gulpha Gorge Campground in exchange for providing a minimum of two public programs through formal or informal demonstrations, workshops, lectures or other public events and donating an original artwork to the park's permanent collection.
For an application packet, call (501) 620-6703 or email brian_schwieger@nps.gov. Additional information is available online at nps.gov/hosp/supportyourpark.
Delta entries
The Arkansas Arts Center is accepting entries through March 11 for the 58th annual Delta Exhibition, on display June 10-Aug. 28 at the Arts Center in MacArthur Park, East Ninth and Commerce streets, Little Rock.
The competition is open to artists who live in or were born in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. All work must be completed during the last two years and must not have been exhibited previously at the Arkansas Arts Center.
Artists should enter information and upload images of their work at arkansasartscenter.org/delta. There is a $20 fee for the first entry, $10 per for each additional (three maximum). The Arts Center will mail out notifications March 30; all accepted work must be received by April 27 and artists are responsible for all shipping arrangements. Call (501) 372-4000.
Juror Elizabeth K. Garvey, co-founder and owner of Garvey-Simon Art Access Inc. and former co-director of the Schmidt-Bingham Gallery in New York, will select the artworks for the exhibition and the winners of the $2,500 Grand Award and two $750 Delta Awards. The Contemporaries, an Arts Center auxiliary membership group, will select the winner of the $250 Contemporaries Delta Award. The winners will be announced at a June 9 reception and exhibition preview.
Mass rehearsals
The Arkansas Choral Society starts rehearsals at 7 p.m. Monday in the choir room of St. James United Methodist Church, 321 Pleasant Valley Drive, Little Rock, for its spring concert, a performance of Franz Joseph Haydn's Mass No. 3 in d minor ("Lord Nelson Mass").
Rehearsals will be 7-8:30 p.m. Mondays until the concert, April 14 at Calvary Baptist Church, 5700 Cantrell Road, Little Rock, with members of the University of Arkansas at Monticello Concert and Chamber choirs. Scores will be available for purchase at rehearsals. No auditions are required; society membership dues are $50. Call (501) 376-8484 or visit the website, lovetosing.org.
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