Ouachita Baptist University’s Department of Theatre Arts will host its annual student-directed One Act Plays on Thursday, Dec. 8, and Friday, Dec. 9, at 7:30 p.m. in Verser Theatre. All performances are free and open to the public.
The Ouachita Baptist University Jazz Band will perform on Monday, Nov. 21, at 7:30 p.m. in Jones Performing Arts Center under the direction of Dr. Craig Hamilton, OBU’s Lena Goodwin Trimble Professor of Music and director of bands. The concert is free and open to the public.
Charles Hughes, author of “Accordion War: Korea 1951,” is holding a book signing for his latest book “A Fortune Teller’s Blessing: The Story of John Allen Adams” at Knit Unto Others, located at Fourth and Main streets on Tuesday, June 14, 4-6 p.m.
Ouachita Baptist University’s Division of Music will host Bob Becker, world-renowned percussionist, in concert with the OBU Percussion Ensemble Monday, April 4, at 7:30 p.m. in McBeth Recital Hall. “I wouldn't be surprised if smoke starts coming up from his mallets," said Dr. Ryan Lewis, OBU assistant professor of percussion.
Ouachita Sounds and Tiger Blast, billed as two of Ouachita Baptist University’s most dynamic performing groups, will present a joint concert Friday, March 4, at 7:30 p.m. in OBU’s Jones Performing Arts Center. The show will feature selections from the hit television show “Glee,” and tickets are $5 each.
Henderson State University Theatre will present seven performances of Almost, Maine by John Cariani on Feb. 24, 25, and 26. All performances will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Studio Theatre of Arkansas Hall.
A touch of William Shakespeare is available for Arkadelphia’s enjoyment this week. Last night, Ouachita Baptist University’s production of “Twelfth Night” opened to an enthusiastic audience.
Zumba classes meet each Tuesday and Thursday at the Gurdon Primary School.
The Ouachita Baptist University Singers will present their spring concert Thursday, April 22, at 7:30 p.m. in Mabee Fine Arts Center’s McBeth Recital Hall.
Ouachita Baptist University will host the Ouachita Saxophone and Double Reeds Ensembles in a recital Monday, April 19, at 7:30 p.m. in Mabee Fine Arts Center’s McBeth Recital Hall on OBU’s campus.
Whimsical.
That’s one of the first words that came to mind as I watched the final dress rehearsal of the OBU musical, “Seussical,” Wednesday night. The play is just short of two hours of rollicking good music and fun, and includes plenty of opportunities to laugh.
Joe Mathieu has illustrated more than 100 children’s books and has created thousands of illustrations for Sesame Street books and other products.
Nothing kills the mood before a show like a clunky cell phone announcement or fundraising pitch from the stage.
Five questions with Femke Hiemstra about "Rock Candy," her lovely and surreal book of collected art.
Leon Chiappini hooks a tire-sized cymbal around his finger and spins it like a basketball. He hits it and listens for the ding, the gravel and the growl: elements of crash that the average ear can’t hear. If it’s not perfect, Chiappini tosses it in the reject pile. “After 49 years, I’d better know if it’s good,” he said with a laugh.
I like to think of film critic Roger Ebert as a sieve. When Hollywood releases a film, it's probably going to go through him. And after taking in a flick and sharing his thoughts, his readers are left with just the stuff that they can use - a solid opinion, a little humor, an idea of whether or not they'll be wanting to shell out their money to take a look themselves.
Checklists, writes Boston surgeon and author Atul Gawande in his book “The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right,” are considered by many to be beneath us. Yet Gawande proves, without a doubt, that checklists — cognitive safety nets — save lives, millions of dollars and untold heartache, whether the task is flying an airplane, building a skyscraper or operating on an adrenal gland.
Bruce Brown of Springfield first discovered comic books as a child. A specialist recommended them to Brown’s parents to help their son overcome some reading difficulties. Now he not only enjoys reading comic books, he writes them, too. Brown’s latest graphic novel, released earlier this year, is “Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom.”
Jonathan Dee’s new critically acclaimed novel “The Privileges” starts with a wedding, impressive for the deft writing that conveys the controlled chaos, the edgy anxieties, the many tensions springing from family members’ vying needs.
In bestselling author Chris Bohjalian’s “Secrets of Eden,” some mysteries untangle themselves as we approach the last pages of his cleverly told novel.
