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'Tales of the Crypt' returns with haunted history tours

Micha Patterson, a student at Parkview Arts & Science Magnet High School, portrayed Capt. Benjamin Shattuck, a 19th-century Arkansas magistrate, for the 2015 “Tales of the Crypt” at Little Rock’s Mount Holly Cemetery.
Micha Patterson, a student at Parkview Arts & Science Magnet High School, portrayed Capt. Benjamin Shattuck, a 19th-century Arkansas magistrate, for the 2015 “Tales of the Crypt” at Little Rock’s Mount Holly Cemetery.

Students from Parkview Arts/Science Magnet High School don period costumes and impersonate the "residents" of a historic Little Rock graveyard in the 22nd annual "Tales of the Crypt," 5:45-8:30 p.m. Tuesday at Mount Holly Cemetery, 1200 Broadway, Little Rock.

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Pianist Olga Kern gives a dedication concert today for Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art’s new Concert Grand Steinway piano.

Student tour guides will escort groups while providing details about the cemetery's 173-year history in candlelight tours that start at the cemetery's east gate. Wear comfortable shoes. Admission is free; donations to the cemetery will be accepted. Visit mounthollycemetery.com or parkviewtheatre.com.

Steinway dedication

Pianist Olga Kern, gold medal winner at the 2001 Van Cliburn Competition, will give a concert to dedicate the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art's new Concert Grand Steinway piano, 4 p.m. today in the Great Hall at the museum, 600 Museum Way, Bentonville.

The program: three sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, the Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, op.53, "Waldstein," by Ludwig van Beethoven; eight Preludes by Sergei Rachmaninoff; two Etudes by Alexander Scriabin; and Islamey, op.18, by Mily Balakirev. Tickets are $50, $40 for members. Call (479) 418-5728 or visit the website, tinyurl.com/steinwaykern.

Architecture lecture

The Architecture and Design Network will present a panel discussion titled "Robinson Reimagined," a look at the past and future of Robinson Center Music Hall, 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Lecture Hall, lower level, Arkansas Arts Center in MacArthur Park, 501 E. Ninth St., Little Rock. Panelists are David Porter, Cindy Pruitt and Laura Hendrix of Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects; Gretchen Hall, president and chief executive officer of the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau; and Jonathan Semans of CDI Contractors.

The program is part of the newly renamed June Freeman Lecture Series, honoring the recently retired network founding director. A pizza-plus-beer-and-wine reception precedes the lecture at 5:30. Admission is free. Visit aiaar.org or the Facebook page, tinyurl.com/hbp3ndv.

Christie mystery

Ten strangers, summoned by an eccentric millionaire to a lonely island off the coast of Devon, England, and each with a dark secret in his or her past, find themselves trapped and at the mercy of a killer who is wiping them out, one by one, in And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. The murder mystery runs Tuesday-Nov. 12 at Murry's Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock. Curtain is 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday (except 12:45 p.m. Wednesday matinees, Oct. 11, 19 and 26), 12:30 and 6:30 p.m. Sunday. Doors and the buffet open approximately 90 minutes before each show. Tickets are $31-$35, $23 for children 15 and younger; show only, $25 and $15. Call (501) 562-3131 or visit murrysdp.com.

Murry's has announced its 2017, 50th anniversary season:

• Jan. 17-Feb. 18: The Nerd by Larry Shue

• Feb. 28-March 25: Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry

• March 28-April 29: Smokey Joe's Cafe, the songs of Lieber & Stoller

• May 2-27: Southern Fried Funeral by J. Dietz Osborne (a Little Rock native) and Nate Eppler

• May 30-July 8: Southern Crossroads, an "old-fashioned, high-spirited Southern jamboree," including the songs "Mountain Dew" and "House of the Rising Sun"

• July 12-Aug, 26: The Wizard of Oz, musical adapted from the 1939 film classic

• Aug. 29-Sept. 8: The Sunshine Boys by Neil Simon

• Sept. 26-Oct. 21: The Savannah Sipping Society by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten

• Oct. 31-Nov. 25: Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery by Ken Ludwig

• Nov. 25-Dec. 31: Harvey by Mary Chase.

Two interstitial concert acts also return: Travis Ledoyt, "The World's Best Young Elvis," Feb. 23-25, and "Mandy Barnett Sings Patsy Cline," Oct. 26-28.

Harding recital

Pianist Tatiana Roitman Mann will give a recital at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Administration Auditorium, Harding University in Searcy, part of the university's 2016-17 Arts and Life Concert Series. The program: 12 Variations on "Ah, Vous dirai-je maman," K.265, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Kinderszenen, op.15, by Robert Schumann; Rondo Capriccioso by Felix Mendelssohn; Valses Nobles et Sentimentales by Maurice Ravel; and four Waltzes -- op.64, No. 1 and 2, op.69 No. 2 and op.18 -- by Frederic Chopin. Tickets are $3 in advance, $5 at the door. Visit harding.edu/concertseries.

Existential drama

Fayetteville's TheatreSquared stages I And You by Lauren Gunderson, about the existential crisis of being an almost-adult, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday through Nov. 6 at Walton Arts Center's Nadine Baum Studios, 505 W. Spring St., Fayetteville. (There will be a 7:30 p.m. performance Nov. 1 and no performance Nov. 3.) The show contains occasional adult language and is recommended for ages 12 and up. Tickets are $15-$40. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit theatre2.org.

Singers' scholarships

Dec. 16 is the deadline for high school seniors to apply for a pair of music/vocal scholarships -- $1,000 and $500 -- the Arkansas Chamber Singers are offering of to help encourage and promote music education in the state. Auditions and interviews will take place at 3 p.m. Jan. 29 at Our Lady of the Holy Souls Catholic Church, 1003 N. Tyler St., Little Rock. Applications and more information, including eligibility guidelines, are available at ar-chambersingers.org. Call (501) 377-1121.

Shakespeare season

The Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre in its 2017 season, June 9-July 9 at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, will stage William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost outdoors, opening June 9; and, in the Donald W. Reynolds Performance Hall, Meredith Willson's The Music Man, opening June 16, and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, opening June 23. The Family Shakespeare production will be a one-hour adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew. Visit arkshakes.com.

Style on 10/09/2016

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