ARmusica -- Arkansas Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Andrew Irvin, violin; ASO principal harpist Alisa Coffey; and organist Jason Pennington -- will perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 4106 John F. Kennedy Blvd., North Little Rock, as part of St. Luke's Festival of the Senses concert series.
The program will include Scintillation by Carlos Salzedo, The Lass of Richmond Hill by Jan Ladislav Dussek, The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams and the "Pastorale" from 6 Piece d'Orgue by Cesar Franck. A meet-the-artists reception will follow the program in the church's Wilder Hall. Admission is free. Call (501) 753-4281.
Walton Arts Center
This week at Fayetteville's Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St.:
• Ukrainian roots music quartet DakhaBrakha performs at 7 p.m. today in the center's Baum Walker Hall, part of the center's 10x10 Arts Series. Tickets are $10.
• The NETworks national tour of Disney's Beauty and the Beast will be back onstage, 7:30 p.m. Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and May 8. Tickets are $30-$84.
Call (479) 443-5600 or visit waltonartscenter.org.
Big Band concert
The Memphis Symphony Orchestra Big Band will perform at 6 p.m. today on the Fine Arts Center lawn at Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas, 1000 Campus Road, Helena-West Helena, part of the Warfield Concerts series. Sponsors are Southern Bancorp and the Delta Cultural Center.
Provide your lawn chairs and picnic baskets. In case of rain, the concert will move indoors to the Fine Arts Center Community Room. Admission is by free ticket, available via the website, warfieldconcerts.com. Call (870) 338-8327.
Eureka arts
Eureka Springs' 29th annual May Festival of the Arts gets underway with the ArtRageous Parade, including floats, art cars, walkers, dancers, musicians and jugglers, down Spring Street at 5 p.m. Saturday.
Also on the schedule:
• 11 a.m.-6 p.m. May 14: Art in the Park in Basin Spring Park. Artists -- members of the Weavers Guild, the Potters Guild and the Plein Air Painters -- will offer textiles, jewelry, paintings, sculpture and fine wood designs. Saxophonist/flutist Bryan Savage will perform. Admission is free.
• 4-10 p.m. May 20: White Street Walk, a walking tour of local artists' homes and studios.
• 1-7 p.m. May 24: The Art of Crochet in Basin Spring Park, featuring community yarn bombing, activities for all ages, a performance by the Melonlight Dance Studio and music by Brian Martin and Sad Daddy.
• Gallery strolls, usually only held the second Saturday evening of each month, are scheduled for every Saturday evening in May. Each participating gallery will offer free refreshments, artists' receptions and shows.
Visit eurekaspringsfestivalofthearts.com, or the Facebook page, facebook.com/EurekaSpringsMayFestivaloftheArts.
Mothers and Sons
A woman pays an unexpected visit to the New York apartment of her late son's partner, now married to another man and with a young son, in Mothers and Sons by Terrence McNally, which the Arkansas Public Theatre will stage at 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday and May 12-14 and 2 p.m. May 8 and 15 at the Victory Theater, 116 S. Second St., Rogers. Doors and concessions open an hour before curtain. Cabaret seats are $30 or $50 for a table for two; balcony seats are $17. Call (479) 631-8988 or visit arkansaspublictheatre.org.
Fort Smith Dreamcoat
The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith's Academy of the Arts will stage Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat -- music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice -- at 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday in the ArcBest Corp. Performing Arts Center, 55 S. Seventh St., part of the Academy's On Stage Series. Tickets are $15, $10 for age 10 and younger. Call (479) 788-7300 or visit uafs.universitytickets.com.
Ballet auditions
Western Arkansas Ballet, a nonprofit dance academy and pre-professional company, will hold open auditions for company positions for the 2016-17 season May 19 at their studio, 4701 Grand Ave., Fort Smith. Audition class for dancers ages 11-13 will be 4-5:30 p.m; for ages 14 and up, 6-8 p.m. Candidates should be at least 11 years old or have completed the sixth grade and have at least three years of ballet experience. Dress code is black leotard, pink tights, ballet shoes, pointe shoes (for those with at least one year of pointe class) and hair pulled away from face in a bun for women; men are to wear black tights or shorts, white T-shirt and ballet shoes. There is a $25 audition fee. Candidates should register 30 minutes before the class.
Company members are required to attend ballet classes three to five times a week and rehearsals two to four times per week. The 2016-17 season includes the company's 31st annual production of The Nutcracker, a spring ballet, a spring dance concert, Dance Fusion and the Regional Dance America National Festival in Phoenix. Call (479) 785-0152 or visit waballet.org.
Weekend season
The Weekend Theater, West Seventh and Chester streets, will kick off its 2016-17 season with the musical Grey Gardens (music by Scott Frankel, lyrics by Michael Korie, book by Doug Wright), June 10-12, 17-19 and 23-26.
The rest of the lineup:
• July 15-17, 22-24, 28-31: The Drowsy Chaperone (music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, book by Bob Martin and Don McKeller)
• Aug. 12-13, 19-21, 25-27: The Library by Scott Z. Burns
• Sept. 17, 23-25, 29-Oct. 1: Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose
• Oct. 21-23, 28-30, Nov. 4-6, 11-13: The Wiz (music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls, book by William F. Brown)
• Dec. 2-3, 8-11, 15-18: Sordid Lives by Del Shores
• Jan. 13-14, 20, 21-22, 26-28: Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage
• Feb. 17-19, 24-26, March 3-5, 10-12: Titanic (music and lyrics by Maury Yeston, book by Peter Stone)
• March 31, April 1, 7-9, 13-15: Bad Seed by Maxwell Anderson and William March
• May 5-6, 12-13, 18-21, 2017: In the Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks
Season Flex Pass tickets are $150. Individual tickets are $16, $12 for students and senior citizens for dramas and comedies, $20 and $16 for musicals. Call (501) 374-3761 or visit the website, weekendtheater.org.
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