In addition to selections from “Romeo & Juliet,” a ballet by Prokofiev, the two-performance-only program includes a 1903 Gabriel Pierné piece that revolves around a dreamy and demanding feature from ASO’s principal harpist, Alisa Coffey, a performer who has been called “reliably magic” by Arkansas Times’ own Stephanie Smittle.
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Miss Gay America pageant continues at Robinson Center
In this midst of all this SB43 bullshit, we somehow missed that the Miss Gay America pageant — or the “world’s first, longest-running, and most prestigious” drag competition — has been happening under our noses at Robinson Center for the past two days. The event started on Tuesday but continues through Friday, Jan. 20.
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Humorist David Sedaris returns to Little Rock in April
David Sedaris is uncommonly funny and insightful on the page, but something really transcendent happens when you hear him read his essays aloud. He returns to Little Rock on April 24.
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‘Fiddler on the Roof’ opens Friday at Robinson
This month, the Tony Award-winning story of Tevye the milkman’s struggle to maintain his family’s traditional Jewish religious and cultural lifestyle in the wake of encroaching modern influences comes to the Robinson Center stage.
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Ticketmaster says Ashanti performance is canceled
A ticket vendor says the headline LITFEST concert has been canceled.
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Little Rock gets a kick out of the Blue Man Group
The Blue Man Group has been pushing the limits of music for decades, and have graced the stages in Las Vegas, New York and Chicago. They visited the capital city this weekend with their latest tour, “Speechless.”
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Blue Man Group heads to Robinson Center this weekend
The group may be mute, but the innovative instruments and trickery speaks for itself.
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Canadian comedian and YouTuber Kurtis Conner at Robinson Center Sunday
Saddle up, we’re going to KurtisTown … or, actually, KurtisTown is coming to us.
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Weird Al Yankovic at Robinson Center tonight
Weird Al brings a slice of his non-parody work to Robinson Center tonight.
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Seven new dancers at Ballet Arkansas; new season includes ‘Dracula,’ ‘Sleeping Beauty’ and a German-inspired Biergarten
Seven new dancers and a new season from Ballet Arkansas.