Five-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Eureka Springs Auditorium, 36 S. Main St. His best-known songs include "If You Could Read My Mind," "Sundown" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."
Tickets are $55-$65. Call (479) 253-7788 or visit theaud.org.
Rep open house
For the first time, Arkansas Repertory Theatre invites the public to an open house, 4-6 p.m. Monday that will include guided tours through parts of the theater rarely in public view -- rehearsal spaces, dressing rooms, costume and prop shops -- plus a chance to stand on the set of the Rep's current show, Scooter Pietsch's Windfall.
The event is also a celebration of the career of and a farewell to Producing Artistic Director Bob Hupp, who is leaving to take a job at Syracuse Stage at the end of June. Local musician Ben Brenner will perform in the lobby; Loblolly Creamery's food truck will vend ice cream on Main Street in front of the theater. Admission is free. Call (501) 378-0405 or visit TheRep.org.
French 'cooking'
When the famous French chef they've hired for their gourmet restaurant fails to appear, a Niagara Falls restaurateur (Don Bolinger) and his daughter (Maegan Hickerson) create a recipe for disaster when they persuade at the last minute an unemployed drifter to don toque and apron in Too Many Cooks by Marcia Kash and Douglas E. Hughes.
The show runs Tuesday-July 16 at Murry's Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock. Doors and the buffet open approximately 90 minutes before curtain time: 7:45 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday (except 12:45 p.m. matinees only, Wednesday, June 29 and July 56), 12:45 and 6:45 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $31-$35, $23 for children 15 and younger; show only, $25 and $15. Call (501) 562-3131 or visit murrysdp.com.
ASUMH series
Nashville songwriters and a 14-piece symphony orchestra team up for the Bluebird Cafe-esque style writer's round as the Music City Hit-Makers' Where Song Meets Symphony kicks off Arkansas State University-Mountain Home's sixth Performing Arts Series, 7 p.m. Sept. 15 in the Ed Coulter Performing Arts Center, Vada Sheid Community Development Center, ASUMH, 1600 S. College St., Mountain Home. Tickets are $35, $17.50 for students, plus fees.
The rest of the schedule (all performances in The Sheid center; all ticket prices are plus fees):
• 2 p.m. Oct. 30: O Sole Trio (soprano Erin Shields, baritone Giuseppe Spoletini and pianist and violinist David Shenton), From Pavarotti to Pop, Italian opera arias, Neapolitan songs, jazz and pop standards. $15, $7.50 students
• 7 p.m. Dec. 13: Sandi Patty's Christmas Blessing Forever Grateful: The Farewell Tour. $40, $20 students
• 2 p.m. March 11: The National Players perform The Giver, adapted by Eric Coble from the Newbery Award-winning book by Lois Lowry. $25, $12.50 students
• 7 p.m. April 19: Russian National Ballet Theatre performs Cinderella. $35, $17.50 students
Gaston Lectures (free):
• 6 p.m. Sept. 20: Wendy E. Simmons, author of My Holiday in North Korea: The Funniest/Worst Place on Earth
• 6 p.m. April 25: Churchill, one-man play by Andrew Edlin
Six-show season tickets, $130 (plus fees), half price for ASUMH students and other students 18 and younger, go on sale Aug. 17. Individual tickets go on sale Aug. 29. Call (870) 508-6280 or (800) 965-9324 or visit the website, TheSheid.com.
Forrest City season
The 2016-17 Performance Season at East Arkansas Community College kicks off with a performance by country singer Charley Pride, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 10 in the EACC Fine Arts Center, 1700 Newcastle Road, Forrest City.
The EACC Spotlight Series (all performances, 7:30 p.m. in the EACC Fine Arts Center):
• Dec. 3: Arkansas Symphony Orchestra Christmas concert
• Jan. 21: Three Dog Night
• Feb. 4: Vicki Lawrence & Mama: A Two-Woman Show
• March 3: Contemporary Christian singer Amy Grant
• April 22: Russian National Ballet performs Swan Lake
The EACC Family Series (all performances, 3 p.m.):
• Jan. 14: The Ugly Duckling & The Tortoise and the Hare
• April 2: Alexander, Who's Not Not Not Going to Move
Special events:
• Oct. 4: Forrest City Medical Center Women's Expo featuring Diana Jordan. 4:30 p.m.: Girlfriend Time (shopping, hors d'oeuvres and beverage buffets); 7:30 p.m.: comedian and motivational speaker Diana Jordan.
• 7 p.m. Feb. 17: Rodney Block Jazz Project
• 12:30 p.m. Feb. 23: University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Vesper Choir
Season ticket packages -- Pick 3 (any three Spotlight Series shows), $93.60; VIP (all five shows), $156; add the Charley Pride concert at a discount -- and individual tickets go on sale June 27. Two-show Family Series packages are $23.20. Individual Spotlight Series tickets are $39; Family Series tickets, $14.50. Call (870) 633-4480, Extension 352 or visit the website, eacc.edu.
Jazz hall induction
The Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame will induct Ted Ludwig and, posthumously, Junie Cobb, Alex Hill and Clark Terry into the hall as part of a jazz celebration by the Arkansas Jazz Heritage Foundation, 8 p.m. Monday in the ballroom at the Capital Hotel, 111 W. Markham St., Little Rock.
The event will also feature an ensemble of area jazz musicians -- Thomas East (vocals, keyboards), Guido Ritchie (trumpet, flugelhorn), Matt Treadway (guitar), Joe Vick (upright bass) and Brian Brown (drums). Tickets are $20 (free for foundation members); there will be a cash bar. Visit tinyurl.com/jazzhall.
Style on 06/19/2016