University of Arkansas
The Fine Arts Center was designed by Fayetteville native Edward Durell Stone, who also designed Radio City Music Hall and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. The buildings are indicative of Stone's idiosyncratic modern style which included patterns of ornament. Stone also designed a fraternity house, now used for academic purposes, and an apartment complex named Carlson Terrace on campus, which has since been demolished.
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
The 2008–2009 season programming for Performances for Young Audiences reached more than 100 performances for young people and their families and over 110 performances for school audiences. The season included four Kennedy Center-commissioned world premieres: "The Trumpet of the Swan", a musical adapted by Pulitzer Prize winner Marsha Norman from the book by E.B. White with music by Jason Robert Brown;" Mermaids, Monsters, and the World Painted Purple", a new play by Marco Ramirez; "Unleashed! The Secret Lives of White House Pets", a new play by Allyson Currin in collaboration with the White House Historical Association; and "OMAN...O man!", a new dance production conceived and directed by Debbie Allen and is part of the Center's Arab festival, "Arabesque: Arts of the Arab World". Theater for Young Audiences on Tour toured with two nationally touring productions of "The Phantom Tollbooth" and "Blues Journey".