ENTERTAINMENT NOTES

Fayetteville troupe to stage off-Broadway murder tale

Architect and author Hicks Stone
Architect and author Hicks Stone

A small-town policeman (Brian Walters) dreams of making it to detective -- and one night his opportunity arrives in the form of a dead Great American Novelist in the off-Broadway musical Murder for Two (music and book by Joe Kinosian, book and lyrics by Kellen Blair). Fayetteville-based professional theater company TheatreSquared'sproduction opens Thursday and runs 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday through May 29 at Walton Arts Center's Nadine Baum Studios, 505 W. Spring St., Fayetteville.

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Circa’s Carnival of the Animals will be onstage Friday at Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center.

James Taylor Odom plays all the suspects. Morgan Hicks directs. The theater, citing brief adult language, recommends the show for theatergoers 12 and older. Tickets are $15-$40. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit theatre2.org.

Architecture lecture

• Architect and author Hicks Stone, principal at the firm of Stone Architecture LLC, New York and Roxbury, Conn., and the youngest son of the late Edward Durell Stone, will document his father's career in and beyond Arkansas in a lecture titled "Edward Durell Stone: American Modernist," 6 p.m. Tuesday in the lecture hall, lower level, Arkansas Arts Center in MacArthur Park, 509 E. Ninth St. at Commerce Street, Little Rock. A 5:30 reception will precede the lecture, which is under the auspices of the Architecture and Design Network. Admission is free and open to the public. Sponsor is Jay S. Stanley & Associates and Audio Visual Environments. Email ardenetwork@icloud.com.

The elder Stone, born in 1902 to a prominent pioneering Fayetteville family, went on to design New York's Radio City Music Hall, the Museum of Modern Art, the U.S. Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair, the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. Hicks Stone published a biography, Edward Durell Stone: A Son's Untold Story of a Legendary Architect, in 2011.

Dead concert film

A previously unreleased July 2, 1989, tour-opening Grateful Dead concert from Sullivan Stadium in Foxboro, Mass., hits the big screen for the sixth annual "Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies," 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Breckenridge Village 12 and the Colonel Glenn 18 in Little Rock. The film also includes an interview with Grateful Dead archivist David Lemieux on the making of the forthcoming 12-disc July 1978: The Complete Recordings boxed set and previously unseen performance footage (featuring Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Bob Weir, singer/guitarist John Mayer, Allman Brothers' bassist Oteil Burbridge and RatDog keyboardist Jeff Chimenti). Tickets are available at FathomEvents.com.

Artosphere Festival

The seventh annual Artosphere Festival kicks off Tuesday and runs through May 27 in Northwest Arkansas, presented by Fayetteville's Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St. A complete schedule is available at ArtosphereFestival.org. Call (479) 443-5600 for tickets.

Hawaiian singer/ukulele player Paula Fuga opens the festival at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday with a performance at the Mildred B. Cooper Memorial Chapel, 504 Memorial Drive, Bella Vista. Tickets are $10.

Other performances this week at the Walton Arts Center:

Spin by Evalyn Parry, 7 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday, Starr Theater. A celebration -- part indie music concert, part performance poetry, part history lesson -- of the bicycle as muse, musical instrument and agent of social change. $8

• Brisbane, Australia-based circus company Circa's Carnival of the Animals, 7 p.m. Friday, Baum Walker Hall, blending circus, music (by Camille Saint-Saens) and multimedia (large digital projections). $10.

The Artosphere Festival Orchestra will present three concerts with conductor Corrado Rovaris:

• 8 p.m. May 21, Baum Walker Hall, Walton Arts Center. "Russian Masterworks": Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 in d minor with Benedetto Lupo as soloist; Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. $10.

• 7 p.m. May 24, , Baum Walker Hall. "Heroic Beethoven": Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus, op.43, and the Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, op.55, "Eroica," by Ludwig van Beethoven; Daniel Schnyder: Impetus -- Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra, featuring the Dover Quartet (American premiere). $10.

• 8 p.m. May 27, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 600 Museum Way, Bentonville: Live From Crystal Bridges: Mozart in the Museum. Soprano Deanna Breiwick will sing three arias by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; the orchestra will play three Mozart symphonies -- No. 1, No. 11 and No. 36, "Linz." Tickets, $40, have sold out; the concert will air live on Fayetteville public radio station KUAF-FM, 91.3.

War's legacy

The MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, 503 E. Ninth St., Little Rock, will host the touring exhibition "War Comes Home: The Legacy," featuring correspondence from most of the major conflicts in U.S. history to reveal how war changes lives, families and communities, Monday-June 1. The exhibition comes to the museum via funds from the Arkansas Humanities Council. Admission is free. Hours are 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 1-4 p.m. Sunday. Call (501) 376-4602 or visit arkmilitaryheritage.com.

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