Henri Matisse's The Palace, Belle Île, c. 1896-1897, from the collection of Dixon Gallery and Gardens.
TONIGHT
Broadway in the burbs
The fans spoke and GPAC listened. Back by popular demand is a concert of show tunes conceived by producer Neil Berg. The all-new set list for "101 Years of Broadway" also features a new singing roster: Rob Evan (Jean Valjean in "Les Miserables"), Tamra Haydn (Cosette in "Les Mis"), Danny Zolli (Judas in "Jesus Christ Superstar"), Carter Calvert ("Ain't Nothin' But the Blues"), and Robert DuSold (Andre in "Phantom of the Opera").
8 tonight at the Germantown Performing Arts Centre, 1801 Exeter. Tickets are $30, $40 and $50. Call 751-7500.
Henri Matisse's The Palace, Belle Île, c. 1896-1897, from the collection of Dixon Gallery and Gardens.
Ingrid Werthmann
TU Dance troupe, founded by Uri Sands and wife Toni Pierce-Sands, performs tonight at Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary's School.
Jeannick Gravelines/IFC Films
"Summer Hours" will play Thursday at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.
Big Easy art
The Big Easy colors much of tonight's Trolley Tour, 6-9 p.m. in the South Main Art District, including an historic 60-piece show of Mardi Gras photographs made in the 1950s by a young Jack Robinson on display through March 18 at the Jack Robinson Gallery, 44 Huling; and "Storytellers," a group show by News Orleans-connected artist Mark Waguespack and photographer Benjamin Bullins with local lensman Nathan Berry through Saturday at Hannah Davis Gallery, 408 S. Front, Suite 105. Also, D'Edge Art & Unique Treasures owner Debra Edge carries on the bottle art tradition of Bluff City self-taught painter Frank "Preacher" Boyle in "Bottled-Up Blues," and John Sadowski touts a wonderfully iconic image of WDIA in his series "Southern Landmarks," both through the end of February at the 550 S. Main gallery.
More information: Jack Robinson (619-4478; robinsongallery.com), Hannah Davis (504-756-4567, hannahdavisgallery.com); D'Edge (521-0054, d-edgeart.com). Hannah Davis is donating 10 percent of its proceeds from art sales during Trolley night to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund.
Finding a cure
T Clifton Art, 2571 Broad, holds "Creative Arts for a Cure," a benefit for the PKD (polycystic kidney disease) Foundation 6 to 9 tonight with works in glass, pottery, jewelry and more.
For more information, call 491-4799 or 323-2787 or go to tcliftonart.com.
The Sands of dance
Before forming their own dance company in 2004, Uri Sands and his wife, Toni Pierce-Sands, were both stars of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Their troupe, TU Dance, quickly established itself as a minor powerhouse of contemporary dance, starting with Uri Sands winning the first Princess Grace Award in choreography in 2005. Tonight, the company performs a selection of works at the Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary's School, 60 Perkins Ext.
8 tonight. Tickets are $28. Call 537-1483.
SATURDAY
Beck! Bill! Big screen!
Sure, you watch and listen to Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly all day and night on TV and radio, but what you're thinking is: I'd sure like to see them in movie theaters, too! Now you can, when the "O'Reilly/Beck: Bold & Fresh Tour 2010" is presented live via satellite at the Malco Paradiso, 584 S. Mendenhall, at 7 p.m. Saturday. The two-hour show -- which will mix comedy with commentary, in the manner of the hosts' cable-television programs -- represents the first time the two conservative pundits have toured together.
Tickets: $20. Visit malco.com./p>
SUNDAY
Making an impression
The latest Dixon Gallery and Gardens exhibition, "Monet to Matisse," presents more than 40 Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces from the museum's permanent collection through April 4. A lecture at the 4339 Park gallery, "Private to Public: Building a Collection for the Dixon," by director Kevin Sharp, kicks things off at 2 p.m. Sunday.
Call 761-5250 or go to Dixon.org for info on the exhibit and its many related workshops and educational programs.
THURSDAY
Meet The Residents
Long running avant-garde music and conceptual art group The Residents make a rare Memphis appearance with a performance Thursday at the Hi-Tone Café. The group, still shrouded in mystery, began in the late-'60s, and over the course of four decades has taken its place alongside Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, Sun Ra and Harry Partch as among music's preeminent artistic provocateurs.
Doors open at 9 p.m. Tickets are $15 and available at hitonememphis.com. The Hi-Tone is located at 1913 Poplar Ave.
Spend 'summer' at the Brooks
The most honored foreign film of 2009, French director Olivier Assayas' profound and moving "Summer Hours" makes its area debut at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. A look at three siblings' attempt to deal with tangible possessions and intangible memories after the death of their mother, the film is "packed nearly to bursting with rich meaning and deep implication," according to A.O. Scott of the New York Times.
Tickets: $7, or $5 for museum members. Visit brooksmuseum.org or call 544-6208.
Radio for the eyes
Can't make it to the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota? Then experience a production of Garrison Keillor's famed public radio program "A Prairie Home Companion" live via satellite at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Malco Paradiso, 584 S. Mendenhall. In addition to the "News from Lake Wobegon," you'll see as well as hear such series regulars as the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band and sound-effects wizards Tom Keith and Fred Noonan.
Tickets: $20. Visit malco.com.
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