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Dancers from across the country come together at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts for "Action/Abstraction: Redefined Dance Performance," blending traditional choreography and modern movement, 1:30 p.m. Saturday.

Maintaining NATO’s effectiveness requires recommitting to the Alliance’s transatlantic vision today, tomorrow, and into the years ahead.

Baritone Bradley Kynard of San Francisco, a former IT worker who began his singing career after a teacher suggested he had talent, will narrate and sing the role of Sportin' Life in the symphony's concert version of Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" opera on April 20 and 21 in the Empress Theatre.

When Ari Axelrod was putting together his show, A PLACE FOR US: A CELEBRATION OF JEWISH BROADWAY, he couldn’t foresee that it would open at a time of mourning for Jews around the world. The horrendous attacks in Israel have made any sort of celebration hard to bear. But as Axelrod points out that is precisely the reason it is imperative to celebrate the achievements of Jewish Americans. And nowhere is that influence felt more strongly than on Broadway in the musical theatre.

"This journey into the golden era of the '20s and '30s with two musical stars was a night nothing short of brilliant," writes reviewer ROB KENNEDY.

A previously unheard recording of the Oscar Peterson Trio performing live in Switzerland is being released for the first time.

Something has happened in jazz culture in the new millennium. There is more emphasis on original composition than ever before. There has been remarkably little discussion and analysis of this phenomenon, perhaps because many assume it is a positive development. Jazz, after all, prioritizes originality.

Lizzo apparently no longer passes the socially acceptable smell test, unlike past Super Bowl halftime crotch-grabbers and profane N-word-spewers, as per Roger Goodell’s standards.

Led by conductor Marc Taddei, regional orchestra themes its 1923-24 season around the best-known works of the 20th-century American composer and includes works by Prokoviev, Copland and Bizet, in addition to three chamber concerts.

In New Orleans, anything thats about Tennessee Williams, or is Williams-adjacent, draws attention.