Becca Martin-Brown

What happens when a "collective" of friends decides to start a theater company?

ROGERS -- Arkansas Public Theatre will produce "A Christmas Story" in December, then postpone the remainder of Season 39 until its home at the Victory Theater can be restored.

ROGERS -- Arkansas Public Theatre will produce "A Christmas Story" in December, then postpone the remainder of Season 39 until its home at the Victory Theater can be restored.

Director Brittany Tavernaro calls it "the ultimate meta-musical."

"One nomination -- of many! -- succinctly summarized John Rankine's contributions to the arts community in Eureka Springs as 'profound and far-reaching,'" says Sarah Mote, a spokeswoman for the Mid-America Arts Alliance's Artists 360 Creative Impact Award.

"I think the interesting thing about a program like this is that on the surface it's music associated with a specific genre of movies and TV shows, but on a deeper level it's really a concert about memories -- the first time you saw a certain movie, or who you were with or where you were when you saw it, things like that," Ben Harris said.

"Many people are familiar with 'The Glass Menagerie,'" began Terry Vaughan, founder of Fayetteville's Smokehouse Players. "You think you know the characters and how the action unfolds. I thought I knew it too until I saw a production that made me rethink everything.

UA Theatre considers ‘timeless’ Greek tragedy Oct. 18-27

Theatre Collective wages age-old battle in new cabaret

Audio Theater reaches for the stars with Heinlein, Asimov scripts

Whodunit? Poirot will reveal all in FSLT’s ‘Murder on the Orient Express’

‘The Revolutionists’ opens UA Theatre season; Faulkner Center celebrates 10 years

Theatre Collective’ ‘Bear’ pursues tears and laughter Aug. 16-18

Concerts July 26, Sept. 5 show off Crystal Bridges’ iconic Van Cliburn piano

At The Theatre

At The Theatre

In Disney’s fairy tale of “Beauty and the Beast,” all the hopes and dreams of the characters are magically embodied by a rose enshrined in glass.

The Good Shepherd Humane Society in Eureka Springs is hosting its first ever music festival, with music by Chucky Waggs & the Company of Raggs, Eureka Strings, Skye Pollard, Alex Hawd Revue and Gary Lawrence & The Squirrels.

Friday

How do you say goodbye after 35 years? I have no idea, but I’m about to try. This is my farewell column.