Janette Beckman
Jennifer Koh returns for an encore performance with IRIS Orchestra.
TONIGHT
Just sing, please
John Mayer has gotten in a lot of trouble of late for talking; a recent Playboy interview in which he shared intimate details of his relationship with former squeeze Jessica Simpson and dropped the "n" word effectively offended almost everyone. So it is probably to his relief and everyone else's that the "Your Body Is A Wonderland" hit-maker will be doing what he does best — singing and playing guitar — when he appears at FedExForum tonight with opening act Michael Franti & Spearhead.
8 p.m. at FedExForum, 191 Beale. Tickets: $48 and $68, available at the box office, by phone at (800) 745-3000, and through Ticketmaster. For more information, visit fedexforum.com.
Janette Beckman
Jennifer Koh returns for an encore performance with IRIS Orchestra.
The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art will host "The Sivads of March," a tribute to "Monster of Ceremonies" Watson Davis, host of local television horror programming from 1962 to 1972.
Reel-y good art
Set to begin at 7 tonight at the Marshall Arts Gallery at 639 Marshall Ave., "Reel Art" is an auction featuring film-themed and film-inspired works created by local artists. Proceeds from the sale of each piece will be split between the artists and On Location: Memphis, coordinators of an annual international film festival (set this year for April 22-25).
Visit onlocationmemphis.org.
Frosty reception
Peter Morgan's tense, Tony-winning drama about politics and the media opens this weekend at Playhouse on the Square. Based on real events, "Frost/Nixon" begins when British talk-show host David Frost attempts to resurrect his career with the ultimate "get," an interview with Richard Nixon, who had just resigned over the Watergate scandal. Michael Ingersoll, recently of the Chicago cast of "Jersey Boys," plays Frost, and Memphis actor Bill Andrews is the cagey ex-president.
8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through April 3 at the new Playhouse on the Square, 66 S. Cooper. Tickets are $10 children, $20 students and seniors and $30 adults. All tickets opening weekend are $20. Call 726-4656.
Color quilts
The Eclectic Eye, 242 S. Cooper, holds an opening reception 6-8 tonight for its latest art show, "Fragments," a series of colorful mixed-media works that runs through April 28 by New York native Brad Troxel.
For more information, call 276-3937 or go to eclectic-eye.com.
SATURDAY
Comedy gold
Widely hailed as one of the finest stand-ups working today, comedian Paul F. Tompkins returns to Memphis for a pair of shows at Minglewood Hall's 1884 Lounge. The Philadelphia-bred, Los Angeles-based Tompkins will be familiar to viewers of the groundbreaking '90s HBO series "Mr. Show" as well as to fans of "The Best Week Ever," the VH1 comedy-news program Tompkins hosted last year.
8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. at Minglewood Hall's 1884 Lounge, 1555 Madison Ave. Tickets are $25. They're available at bigfunnyprodcutions.com. For more information, call 722-9114.
Wiggle wiggle
Sam, Jeff, Anthony, Murray, Wags the Dog, Dorothy the Dinosaur and the rest will take the stage, so to speak, when "The Wiggles: Big Big Show in the Round" screens at 10 a.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Malco Paradiso, 584 S. Mendenhall. Billed as "the first-ever live-concert movie for preschoolers," the 90-minute event featuring the popular children's group was shot in December in Sydney, Australia.
Tickets: $10 each. Visit malco.com.
Play it again, Jen
Fireball violinist Jennifer Koh, who fiddled a great Leonard Bernstein "Serenade after Plato's Symposium" with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra in 2007, is back in town Saturday with the IRIS Orchestra to perform the same piece. It's the last concert of the season for IRIS, and also features Dvorak's Ninth Symphony and Ravel's "Valses nobles et sentimentales."
8 p.m. Saturday at the Germantown Performing Arts Centre. Tickets are $55; call 751-7500.
The write stuff
FuelFilm: Memphis, a group dedicated to promoting the growth of the local film industry, hosts "It Starts with the Script," a workshop for aspiring screenwriters, at 1 p.m. Saturday in the new University Center at the University of Memphis.
Fee: $10. To register, visit script.eventbrite.com. For more information, visit fuelfilm.org.
Just folks
Before breaking up in the early 1960s, Northeast Mississippi's Pine Ridge Boys had their own regional television show that rivaled that of the legendary Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs in popularity. Fifty years later, the Pine Ridge Boys have reunited with two original members and a new "boy" in front woman and fellow Tishomingo resident Lisa Lambert. The septet brings their country gospel sound to the Center For Southern Folklore on Saturday.
123 S. Main. 8 p.m. Admission: $5. For more information, call (901) 525-3655 or visit southernfolklore.com.
TUESDAY
Some enchanted music
The Tony-winning revival of "South Pacific" opens at the Orpheum. Praised by critics for its unusually full orchestra and innovative direction by Bartlett Sher (of "The Light in the Piazza"), the show takes many cues from the original 1949 production. Set in the Pacific theater of WWII, it's a love-and-war musical that many consider the greatest ever written.
Shows are 7:30 Tuesday-Thursday, 8 p.m. March 26, 2 and 8 p.m. March 27 and 1:30 and 7 p.m. March 28 at the Orpheum, 203 S. Main. Tickets are $28-$128. Call 525-3000.
WEDNESDAY
Digging dirt
Oklahoma's Red Dirt music scene, a blooming of alternative artists in and round the unlikely country Mecca of Stillwater, Okla., gets a heavy airing this week at Newby's. On Friday Jason Boland & the Stragglers return to the bar, and on Wednesday it's Boland's former roommate Stoney Larue and his band the Arsenals, who practically defined the movement with their 2005 debut, The Red Dirt Album. With Austin, Texas' Josh Grider Trio opening.
539 S. Highland. Doors open at 8:30 p.m. Admission: $10 at the door. For more information, call 452-8408 or visit newbysmemphis.com.
THURSDAY
Love and curses!
Tonight marks the start of the "The Sivads of March," a four-day celebration of the late Watson Davis, better known as Sivad, the "Monster of Ceremonies" on the "Fantastic Features" horror movie program that ran on WHBQ-TV Channel 13 from 1962 to 1972. Davis, who died at the age of 92 in 2005, will be remembered with a multimedia festival paying homage to his life and legacy. The event kicks off at 6 p.m. at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art with a "Monster Martini Meet and Greet" featuring Sivad family members and colleagues, and a display of Sivad relics, including his original costume. Jackson, Tenn., horror host "Count Basil" will also make an appearance. The party will be followed by a screening of the Sivad-approved 1958 horror masterpiece "Night of the Demon" at 8.
Admission: $8. There will be a cash bar. For more information, visit sivadsofmarch.com or brooksmuseum.org.
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