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FSLT announces season with Charlie Brown, Peter Pan, Dolly Levi and Hercule Poirot

Fort Smith Little Theatre is quite possibly the oldest continuously operating community theater west of the Mississippi. Founded in 1947, it’s celebrating its 77th season in 2024 with a lineup

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Wasson helms Film Society, Festival grows with Goldsmith

The Fort Smith International Film Festival, having just completed its third year, is growing again for 2024. Brandon Chase Goldsmith announced this week that the new name for the Aug.

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FSLT finds joy in ‘wacky tacky’ chaos of Christmas season

The best holidays, says FLST performer Anthony Yates, are always the ones that aren’t perfect — “the ones where something unexpected happened that broke everyone out of their seriousness and

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T2’s ‘Christmas Carol’ imparts wisdom of Scrooge’s experience

Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” is a play about learning life’s lessons before it’s too late. And even the youngest actors in TheatreSquared’s holiday production have lots of wisdom to

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Shakespeare ‘shaken not stirred’ in NWACC devised theater comedy

Stephanie Freeman, theater program coordinator for Northwest Arkansas Community College in Bentonville, describes it as “Shakespeare shaken, not stirred, with a tempest in a teapot” and “a topsy-turvy love letter

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APT returns to Victory Theatre stage April 5 with ‘Into the Woods’

Pat Metheny will be first March 13. The JJ Grey & Mofro Olustee Tour will follow March 14. Then Arkansas Public Theatre will return to the Victory Theatre stage April

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Three Minutes, Three Questions: Julie Gabel talks about Arts Live production of “Elf”

Julie Gabel has been an icon of Northwest Arkansas theater for decades, returning after an acting career on the West Coast to work on stage and screen here while also

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Smokehouse Players find Christmas complicated in ‘Other Desert Cities’

“Other Desert Cities” by Jon Robin Baitz was originally titled “Love and Mercy,” and you’ll find both in the script, according to Smokehouse Players founders Terry Vaughan and Tim Gilster.

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AOP’s ‘Teen Dad’ Nov. 2-5 centers on healing in BIPOC family

Playwright Adrienne Dawes found inspiration for her play “Teen Dad” in bad theater. “The big thing of that play was that the daughter was a Democrat, and I thought, ‘man,

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JBU seeks humanity in ‘creepy, kooky’ ‘Addams Family Musical’ Oct. 27

“Wednesday Addams is so iconic and yet strangely nuanced — especially in this show,” says Madison Cartmill, who portrays the character this Halloween season at John Brown University. “She’s 18