This week at the Walmart AMP, 5079 W. Northgate Road, Rogers:
Kenny Chesney, on his 2016 Spread the Love tour with "special guest" Old Dominion, performs at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Tickets -- $60-$105 plus applicable fees -- available only from Ticketmaster: (800) 745-3000, ticketmaster.com.
The Journey/Doobie Brothers concert at 7 p.m. Tuesday has sold out. However, the "San Francisco Fest 2016" tour will also bring the bands and Dave Mason to North Little Rock's Verizon Arena on Aug. 17. Tickets are $53.50-$119 plus applicable fees through Ticketmaster.
Fayetteville 'Blues'
Blue Man Group, circling the United States one more time before taking its theatrical tour worldwide, makes a stop at Fayetteville's Walton Arts Center, 495 Dickson St., for performances at 8 p.m. Friday; 11 a.m. and 4 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. June 5. Tickets are $40-$80. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit waltonartscenter.org.
Family on the farm
The Rogers Historical Museum, 322 S. Second St., Rogers, will hold On the Farm Family Day, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday (rain date June 11), featuring a petting area with animals and pony rides, activities and games for all ages, exhibition booths, food, lawn activities, games and antique tractors. Hot dogs will be cooked on-site by First Western Bank, and chips and drinks will be served for as long as they last. Admission is free. Park on the street, in the city parking lot at Third and Poplar streets or in the Morning News lot. Call (479) 621-1154 or visit rogershistoricalmuseum.org.
Royal auditions
The Royal Players will hold auditions at 6:30 p.m. June 12-13 for You Can't Take It With You by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart at the Royal Theatre, 111 S. Market St., Benton. Director Frank O. Butler will cast via cold readings from the script. Production dates are Aug. 11-14 and 18-21. Call (501) 315-5483 or visit theroyalplayers.com.
Poppins auditions
Arkansas Public Theatre, 116 S. Second St., Rogers, will hold auditions June 6 -- check-in at 6:30 p.m., auditions start at 7 -- for the musical Mary Poppins (music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman; book by Julian Fellowes, based on the books by P.L. Travers and the classic Walt Disney film; new songs and additional music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe; co-created by Cameron Mackintosh). Complete audition packets, including roles and character descriptions, script "sides" and musical selections and rehearsal schedules, are available online at arkansaspublictheatre.org. Callbacks (if needed) will be at 6 p.m. June 7. Production dates are July 29-31 and Aug. 4-7 and 11-14. Call (479) 631-8988 or email tinyurl.com/ha876h2.
Argenta acts
Stage works on tap at the Argenta Community Theater, 405 Main St., North Little Rock:
• July 22-30: La Cage aux Folles (music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, book by Harvey Fierstein). Previews at 7 p.m. July 20-21 (July 20 show sold out); tickets $15, $25 for cabaret table seating. Curtain for all other shows: 7 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 3 p.m. July 24. Tickets: $30 and $50. Call (501) 353-1443 or visit argentcommunitytheater.com. Presenting sponsors are Pinnacle Structures and Tenenbaum Recycling Group Foundation. Opening night tickets include a 7 p.m. champagne reception.
• February: The Secret Garden, music by Lucy Simon, lyrics and book by Marsha Norman.
• July 2017: Sweet Charity, music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, book by Neil Simon.
Concert series
Amy Helm & the Handsome Strangers will perform Aug. 25 at South on Main, 1304 Main St., Little Rock, kicking off the Oxford American magazine's 2016-17 12-concert Concert Series.
The season splits into three subsidiary series of four concerts each: "Americana," "Archetypes & Troubadours" and jazz.
The rest of the lineup (all Shows at South on Main):
• Americana -- Dec. 1, Nashville songwriter Jim Lauderdale; Feb. 2, Shook Twins; March 23, the Steel Wheels. Presenting sponsor: Ben E. Keith Foods Mid-South Division.
• Archetypes & Troubadours -- Sept. 8, John Fullbright; Nov. 3, trio centering on cellist and former member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops Leyla McCalla; March 2, Creole band Terrance Simien & the Zydeco Experience; May 4, the McCrary Sisters. Presenting sponsor: Chris Harkins of Raymond James.
• Jazz -- Sept. 22, pianist Sullivan Fortner; Nov. 10, the Helen Sung Quartet; Feb. 23, MVP Jazz Quartet (Donald Brown, Ray Drummond, Marvin "Smitty" Smith and Bobby Watson); April 20, Trumpeter Terence Blanchard featuring the E-Collective.
Twelve-show season packages are $284 (general admission)-$449 (premium reserved seating). Call (800) 293-5949 or visit the website, Metrotix.com.
TheatreSquared grant
The Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Arts' Building Bridges Program is giving Fayetteville theater company TheatreSquared a three-year, $250,000 grant to fund the creation of Romeo & Juliet: Damascus, a free-adaptation "reimagining" of William Shakespeare's play in contemporary Damascus in collaboration with Syrian director Kholoud Sawaf.
The project's first phase, toward an eventual planned fully staged production, will be a three-week workshop as part of the five-play 2016 Arkansas New Play Festival, with staged readings at 7 p.m. June 17 at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 600 Museum Way, Bentonville, and 8 p.m. June 23 at Fayetteville's Walton Arts Center's Nadine Baum Studios, 505 W. Spring St. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit theatre2.org.
El Dorado concerts
Main Street El Dorado's 2016 Murphy USA Summer Concert Series will kick off as country singer-songwriter William Michael Morgan headlines a concert at 7 p.m. June 25 on Union Square, North Washington Avenue and East Main Street, El Dorado. Admission is free.
The rest of the lineup (music starts at 7, headliner takes the stage at 8, admission free):
• July 23: Little Texas
• Aug. 27: Country singer Jana Kramer
Call (870) 862-4747 or visit mainstreeteldorado.org.
Style on 05/29/2016