2023-2024 Season
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Presented by Wildwood Park for the Arts
October 26-29, 2023
Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s landmark musical tells the tale of a resourceful pie shop owner and a vengeful barber out for blood. After he’s sent away by a corrupt judge, Sweeney returns to London years later seeking his long-lost family and forms an unlikely partnership with Mrs. Lovett, who serves up pies underneath his former shop. Together, they wreak havoc on Fleet Street and serve up the hottest – and most unsettling – pies in London.
This is an indoor performance in the Cabe Festival Theatre. For wheelchair accessible seating, please contact us at finance@wildwoodpark.org.
All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914
Presented by The Riverside Actors Theatre, Praeclara,
& Wildwood Park for the Arts
December 7-10, 2023
The Western Front, Christmas, 1914. Out of the violence a silence, then a song. A German soldier steps into No Man’s Land singing “Stille Nacht.” Thus begins an extraordinary night of camaraderie, music, peace: a remarkable true story, told in the words and songs of the men who lived it. All Is Calm is a collaboration between director Ben Grimes’s Riverside Actors Theatre and music director Bevan Keating’s Praeclara vocal company, presented at Wildwood Park for the Arts. Come experience a Christmas story like no other!
This is an indoor performance in the Cabe Festival Theatre. For wheelchair accessible seating, please contact us at finance@wildwoodpark.org.
The Pirates of Penzance
Presented by Wildwood Park for the Arts
May 9-18, 2024
On the beautiful banks of Swan Lake at Wildwood Park, a gang of pirates play and party as Frederic (a pirate apprentice) reminds the pirate king that his obligation to the gang is soon over. Set sail with this classic comedy that boasts one of the most famous patter songs in musical theatre history. A hilarious farce of sentimental pirates, bumbling policemen, dim-witted young lovers and an eccentric Major-General.
This production will be staged outdoors next to Wildwood’s beautiful Swan Lake and include outdoor festivities before the first downbeat. Bring your blanket and lawn chair and be prepared for an evening of theater like no other in Arkansas!
Gates open at 5:30pm. Shows begins at approximately 8:00pm (sunset).
New Hours
Monday – Saturday: 8:30-5:00
Sunday – 1:00-5:00
These classes, along with private lessons in voice, piano, violin, and more, are being offered as part of our new education initiative!
A welcomed addition to the West Little Rock community, the West Little Rock Performing Arts Academy strives to become a leader in the development of arts-based programs that serves the families of our community. Our Mission is to make a difference in the lives of our students, audience, and our community through the power and beauty of the Arts.
The WLR Performing Arts Academy, under the leadership of professional musicians and artists, will provide a definitive standard of excellence in curriculum design, assessment, performance training, and arts-based social programs.
Providing one-on-one studio instruction, ample opportunities for solo and ensemble performances, and small group instruction in choral music, dance, fitness, and a host of discipline-specific subjects, the WLR Performing Arts Academy seeks to support and enhance the artistic lives of our closest neighbors and the wider arts community of which we are privileged to be a part.
To register, contact Kira Keating, kira@wildwoodpark.org.
OUR SPONSORS
