The Ozark Arts Council and the Theatre Co. will stage the world premiere of Doublewide, Texas, a comedy by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and June 19-20 and 2 p.m. June 14 and 21 at the Lyric Theater, 115 W. Rush St., Harrison.
Tickets are $12, $10 senior citizens and students, $8 children. Call (870) 391-3504 or visit ticketpeak.com/lyrictheatre.
The playwrights, who will make a special opening-night appearance, asked Mary Bishop, who has directed several of their plays for the Harrison community theater and has developed a close relationship with them, if she would premiere their play there.
Some of its rather eccentric inhabitants of Tugaloo, Texas, discover that the villainous city manager and the mayor want to annex their trailer park to put up a maximum security prison.
The opening-night performance will also feature the Children's Choir of the Ozarks performing a song written especially for the play.
Magic/Bird
Rogers Little Theater will stage Magic/Bird by Eric Simonson, focusing on the '80s basketball rivalry between the Los Angeles Lakers' Earvin "Magic" Johnson and the Boston Celtics' Larry Bird, in a dinner-theater setting, 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 18-20 and 2 p.m. June 14 and 21 at the Victory Theater, 116 S. Second St, Rogers.
Meal seating begins 90 minutes before curtain. Title sponsor is Targus; gold sponsors are Paris Presents and Unilever. Tickets are $48; two-seat, nondinner cabaret tables are $60; show-only balcony seats are $17. Call (479) 631-8988 or visit rogerslittletheater.org.
Elvis radio tribute
Ed Blair will do an on-air tribute to Elvis Presley, broadcasting his recording of Presley's sold-out June 10, 1972, performance at New York's Madison Square Garden, 5-7 p.m. Wednesday on community station KABF-FM, 88.3.
Theater grants
The New York-based Shubert Foundation is giving $85,000 in grants to three Arkansas theater companies -- $20,000 to TheatreSquared in Fayetteville and, in Little Rock, $55,000 to the Arkansas Repertory Theatre and $10,000 to the Arkansas Arts Center Children's Theatre. It's part of a record $24 million in grants to 488 nonprofit performing arts organizations in 46 states to support "professional resident theater and dance companies that develop and produce new American work."
Springdale schedule
The Arts Center of the Ozarks, 214 S. Main St., Springdale, opens its 2015-16 Theatre Season on July 10-12 and 16-19 with The Music Man (book, lyrics and music by Meredith Willson).
The rest of the lineup:
• Sept. 12-13, 19: The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley (music by Jonathan K. Waller, David Weinstein, Timothy Allen McDonald and Stephen Gabriel, book and lyrics by Timothy Allen McDonald, based on the book by Jeff Brown)
• Oct. 23-25, 30-31: Spider's Web by Agatha Christie
• Dec. 11-13: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
• Feb. 5-7, 12-13: The Whales of August by David Berry
• March 5-6: Go, Dog. Go!, adapted by Allison Gregory and Steven Dietz from the children's book by P.D. Eastman
• April 8-10, 15-16: Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring
Serendipity Series (except as noted, all shows at 7:30 p.m.):
• Dec. 5: ACO Chorale Holiday Concert
• March 13: Tales From the South: On the Road 3, 6 p.m.
• April 23: Arkansas Winds Community Concert Band
• April 30: ACO Chorale Spring Concert
• May 21: Singing Men of Arkansas
And the Main Street Music Nites series, spotlighting area musicians in the ACO Gallery:
• Aug. 15: Singer-songwriter Randall Shreve
• Nov. 14: Voxana (Stephen Pruitt, Edward Mekelburg and Brittany Stephenson), folk trio performing '60s songs
• Jan. 16: Smokey and the Mirror, husband-wife duo Bryan and Bernice Hembree
• May 13: TBA
Call (479) 751-5441 or visit acozarks.org.
Style on 06/07/2015