March/April Art events

March picks up where December left off – we all needed a little break in January and February, didn’t we? We ease in Spring with a flurry of events of all kinds – play, films, orchestras, and more. Like daffodils and tulips rising to bring color to us after a bleak winter, all of our arts groups are getting back in the swing. And we have new things this year. Chances are La Boheme is one of your favorite operas if not the favorite, but wait until you see Puccini’s great musical romance in the fabulous new Scheidt Family Performing Arts Center at the University of Memphis. Another impressive new musical addition is Crosstown Arts Jazz Month in March. I think they have something like 20 performances in 30 days with quite a variety, some charge a fee in the theater and Green Room, some free in the Crosstown Concourse atriums. I can’t list it all so look at the website. At this point, Crosstown is offering more live music on a regular basis than any venue in Memphis, except perhaps Beale Street. -Ken Hall

March events

All That Breathes film screening

Indie Memphis, Malco Studio on the Square, 7pm

Between Two Worlds art by John Torina Gallery Ten Ninety-One, WKNO Opening reception March 5, 4-6pm. On display until 3/30

Farewell, Mr. Haffman film screening

International Jewish Film Festival, Jewish Community Center, 7pm

New works by Brin & Dale Baucum

Lois Estes Ruleman Gallery at Church Health Opening reception March 3, 5:30-7pm. Longtime potters Brin and Dale are now working in photography and watercolor respectively. Same great talent, new mediums. On display until 4/28

Marie-Stéphane Bernard’s Sounds of My Life GPAC, 8pm Our favorite French soprano offers a new musical production.

Perry Mears

Avanti Concert Series, Beethoven Club, 263 S. McLean, 7pm

Dali Quartet Iris Collection, Scheidt Performing Arts Center, 7:30pm

From the Studio art by Carl Moore

Jay Etkin Gallery

Opening March 17, 5-8pm, this exhibit is part of the state-wide Tennessee Triennial Exhibitions. On display until 4/29

3/1 3/2 3/7

Orchestra Unplugged: Copland Appalachian Spring Halloran Centre, 7:30pm

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Orpheum Theatre, 7:30/2pm, through 3/5

3/20 3/4

Women in the Arts, Dixon Gallery 10am-2pm

Organized by the Dixon Gallery and Gardens and Theatre Memphis, this annual event brings together a host of women of all ages for a day of performances, demonstrations, classes, and will also include an artist market, make spaces, and food trucks. The event takes place both at the Dixon and Theatre Memphis.

Spamalot Germantown Community Theatre, 6pm A musical adaptation of Monty Python & the Holy Grail. through 3/19

Ain’t Too Proud - The Life and Times of the Temptations

Orpheum Theatre, through 3/12

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Crosstown Arts Film Series, Crosstown Theater, 7pm, Luis Buñuel 1972 surrealist classic film.

Freckleface Strawberry The Musical Circuit Playhouse, through 2/19

Harmonia Rosales: Master Narrative Brooks Museum, through 6/25

University of Memphis Symphony with University Singers

Scheidt Family Performing Arts Center, 7:30pm

The Play That Goes Wrong Theatre Memphis, through 3/26

Prof. Andy Horowitz, University of Connecticut, on New Orleans’ History, America’s Future University Center Bluff Room, 6pm

Once Upon A Mattress

Rhodes Theatre Guild, McCoy Theatre, through 3/31

Anthony Wilson

Jazz in the Box, GPAC, 7pm

Ink Circuit Playhouse, through 4/16

Chalkfest 2023 Brooks Museum, 10am

Southern Literary Salon Series: Truth & Beauty of Ann Patchett

Tennessee Shakespeare Company, 7950 Trinity Rd., 3pm

Mid-South Sober Living Art Auction

Memphis Botanic Garden, 6:30pm

April events

Concerto Competition

Germantown Symphony Orchestra, 5124 Poplar, 9am-5pm

16th Annual Interfaith Dinner Memphis Islamic Center, 5pm

FourSights group art show

Gallery Ten Ninety-One, WKNO

Opening reception April 2, 2-4pm, through 4/28

Dan Torop art

TOPS Gallery, 400 S. Front, on display until 5/30

Chicago Orpheum Theatre, through 4/9

Jazz Week

University of Memphis

Several performances by various student and faculty groups. through 4/8

Arrow Creative Marketplace in Motion Loflin Yard, 11am-5pm

Cinderella Ballet Memphis, Orpheum Theatre, 7:30/2:30pm, through 4/16

Volunteer Odyssey 10th Anniversary Celebration Service projects in the morning across the city and an afternoon celebration at Crosstown.

Jose Limón Dance Company Buckman Performing Arts Center, 7pm

Susan Maakestad: The Expansive Moment Dixon Gallery & Gardens, on display until 7/9

La Boheme

University of Memphis Opera, Scheidt Family Performing Arts Center, 7pm

Sherlock’s Last Case Theatre Memphis, through 5/7

Orchestra Unplugged: Dvorak New World Symphony Halloran Centre, 8:30pm

Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812 Playhouse on the Square, through 5/28

Bookstock Author’s Festival Benjamin Hooks Main Library, 3030 Poplar, 10am Local authors read, speak, display, and meet you!

Their Eyes Were Watching God Collage Dance Collective, Cannon Center, 2:30pm, through 4/30

American Experience Iris Collective, GPAC, 7pm

Zao Wou-Ki: Watercolor and Ceramics Dixon Gallery & Gardens