Pulitzers Play Little Rock: RABBIT HOLE at Weekend Theater
The announcement that the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama went to David Lindsay-Abaire for Rabbit Hole was a bit of surprise. The play had actually opened on Broadway the prior season. (While now the...
View ArticlePulitzers Play Little Rock: Top Dog/Underdog at The Weekend Theater
While the Sondheim-Weidman musical Assassins is playing currently at The Weekend Theater, it is not the only title produced there with characters named Lincoln and Booth. Suzan-Lori Parks’s Top...
View ArticlePulitzers Play Little Rock: THREE TALL WOMEN at the Weekend Theatre
Edward Albee received his third Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for THREE TALL WOMEN. It not only marked his return to the Pulitzer fold, it was his first critical success in nearly two decades. In April 2001,...
View ArticleLR Culture Vulture turns 7
The Little Rock Culture Vulture debuted on Saturday, October 1, 2011, to kick off Arts & Humanities Month. The first feature was on the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, which was kicking off its...
View ArticleFirst 2019 play for The Weekend Theater – THE RUNNER STUMBLES
The Weekend Theater starts 2019 with a mystery. A young nun has died under mysterious circumstances in a remote parish in northern Michigan, and her superior, Father Rivard, has been charged with her...
View ArticleLittle Rock Look Back: HAIR brings Age of Aquarius to Robinson Center
Forty-seven years ago today, on January 18, 1972, the musical Hair settled in for a week-long run at Robinson Auditorium. The saga to bring the national tour to Little Rock had actually begun eleven...
View ArticleLaugh. Cry. Think. Act. with 2019-2020 season of The Weekend Theater.
The Weekend Theater’s 27th season kicks off with AVENUE Q (June 14-30). The winner of the 2004 Tony Award for Best Musical (as well as Tonys for Book of a Musical and Score), tells of life on Avenue Q...
View ArticleExperience Life on AVENUE Q at The Weekend Theater
The Weekend Theater kicks off its 2019-2020 season with the Tony Award-winning musical AVENUE Q, with music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx and book by Jeff Whitty. The original production...
View ArticleUS premiere of play THE ROOSTER REBELLION at the Weekend Theater
The Weekend Theater will stage The Rooster Rebellion by Little Rock playwright Anthony Mariani on Aug. 30-Sept. 8 at the theater, 1001 W. 7th St. in Little Rock. Show dates are Aug. 30, 31, Sept. 1,...
View ArticleHAIR shone in on Robinson Auditorium starting on January 18, 1972
Forty-eight years ago today, on January 18, 1972, the musical Hair settled in for a week-long run at Robinson Auditorium. The saga to bring the national tour to Little Rock had actually begun eleven...
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