ROOTS FEST: The best of what’s left: How to experience the Fayetteville Roots Festival if you don’t have tickets
A day-by-day summary of what’s still available, with an emphasis on ways nonticket holders can get in on the action.
Posted by: Kevin Kinder
REVIEW: ‘Shakespeare in Love’ provides a loving introduction to new T2 space
The new TheatreSquared looks brilliant, and we’ll talk about it for some time to come.
REVIEW WITH PHOTOS: The ‘ALTimate’ tour with Live and Bush brings ultimate reminder of the past and present to Walmart AMP
Always go see your favorite music from your first musical days when you have a chance.
First look: TheatreSquared makes final preparations inside new downtown theater complex
The finishing touches are currently being applied to the brand-new, purpose-built theater complex on the southeast corner of Spring Street and West Avenue in Fayetteville.
REVIEW: Hootie & the Blowfish take themselves, and a massive AMP crowd, down memory lane
Nostalgia sells. And Hootie & the Blowfish continue to be very good salesmen.
ACO to open interactive exhibit ‘The King’s Mouth’ by art-focused musician Wayne Coyne
A fully immersive listening experience created by Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne allows people to experience music from the band that can be heard nowhere else.
REVIEW: Three-band rock tour brings some goodness to the AMP in Rogers
Young the Giant, Fitz and the Tantruns, and Coin played a ‘good’ show at the Walmart AMP on Wednesday.
REVIEW: Musical theater classic ‘Les Miserables’ closes out WAC season by going big (and going dark)
It’s a big production, with big ideas and big topics. And that’s a reason it remains one of the biggest draws in musical theater.
REVIEW: ‘Cats’ deftly prowls the WAC again after more than two decades away
The show is imaginative, bold and transporting, all of which are things we ask musical theater to be.
REVIEW: Avett Brothers offer a good show at the AMP, but one not quite up to their lofty standards
When the namesake brothers sing harmony vocals, they make one of the most melodious sounds you might see in any concert environment.
REVIEW: The Killers bring a nearly lethal dose of glam rock to Walmart AMP
In a 20-song, pyrotechnic-popping, nonstop dance party, the Las Vegas band also lived up to the showmanship and swagger of their hometown.
REVIEW: TheatreSquared says ‘Yaasss’ to comedy and queens in new show that closes its old space
It’s an outrageous tale, one that stretches believability.
REVIEW: Leon Bridges and Northwest Arkansas crowd can’t match energy levels at AMP show
Bridges and his band either lacked the musical muscle to overcome the crowd around me or perhaps the crowd lacked the attention span to recognize a good thing when they saw one.
As the first “State of the Art” exhibit at Crystal Bridges is celebrated, plans for a second exhibit are slowly unveiled
Like its predecessor, ‘State of the Art II’ will showcase a nationwide selection of contemporary art from artists not yet recognized at the national level.
REVIEW: ‘Waitress,’ at WAC through April 14, serves up slice of surprisingly complex lives
Life can be depressing and funny at all once, and that duality is the central idea of the show’s best number.
New shows the focus of the new Broadway season coming to the WAC for 2019-2020 season
‘New’ is a central tenet of the upcoming Walton Arts Center season.
TheatreSquared unveils new season, its first in a new home
TheatreSquared announces the lineup of plays to be performed in their first year in their newly built facility at the corner of Spring Street and West Avenue.
REVIEW: TheatreSquared’s ‘The Wolves’ musters a bit of bite in an unconventionally conventional tale
Depending on where you sit, which night you attend or where your focus happens to be at any given moment, you get to see a slightly different play.
REVIEW: ‘A Bronx Tale’ delivers us to that borough but struggles to take us somewhere
There’s always a bit of risk when you venture into something new. It might be a ‘slight one, a close but not quite one’ for you, but there’s often excitement in the pursuit.
New programming series serves up a helping of history with a helping of craft beer
A series of six programs will highlight historical events, such as a tour famed musician Johnny Cash took through Fayetteville in September 1968.
Tribute show forces local songwriter Randall Shreve to confront a hero (and get in better shape)
Years ago, Shreve mentioned to his bandmates that it might be fun to do a Freddie Mercury and Queen tribute show. The idea was promptly shot down.
REVIEW: TheatreSquared production takes light-hearted (but perhaps necessary) look at heavy subject
It’s a brisk piece with no intermission. You’ll be in and out of the theater in less than 90 minutes. But do get there early.
