* Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre, based in Conway, is the state's only professional Shakespeare company.

* Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre

He studied at the Arkansas Arts Center, followed by work with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, and six years with the American Conservatory Theatre ; during his time at ACT, he also taught acting.

Stephens also created and produced another highly rated television program called, " Eye on Arkansas ," which led him to negotiate with The Vapors nightclub in Hot Springs ( Garland County ) to publicize the club in exchange for appearances by the headliner acts, resulting in him interviewing such entertainment icons as Liberace, Patti Page, the Four Aces, Angie Dickinson, Bob Crosby, Mickey Rooney, the casts of the popular TV ’ s series, " Ponderosa ," and " The Beverly Hillbillies ," actors Roy Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Ronald Reagan ( while touring as the host of GE Theatre, prior to becoming governor of California, and later as President ), as well as numerous other notables.

* Royal Theatre ( Benton, Arkansas ), listed on the NRHP in Arkansas

* Community Theatre ( Pine Bluff, Arkansas ), listed on the National Register of Historic Places ( NRHP ) in Arkansas

He has since sold the venue ( now owned by the Hughes Brothers and renamed the Hughes American Family Theatre ) and gone back to a fairly light touring schedule, which usually includes a performance with Ramona Jones and the Jones Family Band at their annual tribute to Clark's old Hee Haw co-star Grandpa Jones in Mountain View, Arkansas.

In 2011 Womack played the leading role Ensign Nellie Forbush, a U. S. Navy nurse from Little Rock, Arkansas, in the Lincoln Center production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical South Pacific at the Barbican Theatre in London.

* Lyric Theatre ( Harrison, Arkansas )

and he wrote also the masterpiece of frontier humor, `` The Big Bear Of Arkansas '', in which earthy realism is placed alongside the exaggeration of the backwoods tall-tale and the awe with which man contemplates the grandeur and the mysteries of nature.

-- Held out of Texas Tech's sweat-suits drill Monday at Lubbock was tackle Richard Stafford, who is undergoing treatment for a leg injury suffered in the Raiders' 38-7 loss to Texas A & M Because of its important game with Arkansas coming up Saturday, Baylor worked out in the rain Monday -- mud or no mud.

That same day convicted murderer Richard Wayne Snell, who had ties to one of the bombers, Timothy McVeigh, is executed in Arkansas.

As of late 2005, the area once devoted to a live-action facsimile of Dogpatch ( including a lifesize statue in the town square of Dogpatch " founder ," General Jubilation T. Cornpone ) has been heavily stripped by vandals and souvenir hunters, and is today slowly being reclaimed by the surrounding Arkansas wilderness.

Early episodes also contained several references to Eureka Springs, which is in northwest Arkansas.

The Mid-continent area is an area generally including Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, North Louisiana and the part of Texas away from the Gulf Coast.

The subspecies ( or species, depending on the source ) Cryptobranchus alleganiensis bishopi is confined to the Ozarks of northern Arkansas and southern Missouri while Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis is found in the rest of the aforementioned states.

Despite these high-profile reports from Arkansas and Florida and sporadic reports elsewhere in the historic range of the species since the 1940s, there is no conclusive evidence for the continued existence of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker ; i. e., there are no unambiguous photographs, videos, specimens or DNA samples from feathers or feces of the Ivory-billed.

Prum, intrigued by some of the recordings taken in Arkansas ' Big Woods, said the evidence thus far is refutable.

The critical frames from the Arkansas video that were used to identify the bird as an Ivory-billed Woodpecker are shown to be equally, or more, compatible with the Pileated Woodpecker .… The identification of the bird filmed in Arkansas in April 2004 as an Ivory-billed Woodpecker is best regarded as unsafe.

150 miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate Army is repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.

* 1836 – Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U. S. state.

Louisiana is bordered to the west by Texas ; to the north by Arkansas ; to the east by the state of Mississippi ; and to the south by the Gulf of Mexico.

Missouri (,,, or, among others ) ( nickname The Show Me State ) is a U. S. state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska.

Missouri is bounded on the north by Iowa ; on the east, across the Mississippi River, by Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee ; on the south by Arkansas ; and on the west by Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska ( the last across the Missouri River ).

The first effort by any government to set aside such protected lands was in the United States, on April 20, 1832, when President Andrew Jackson signed legislation that the 22nd United States Congress had enacted to set aside four sections of land around what is now Hot Springs, Arkansas to protect the natural, thermal springs and adjoining mountainsides for the future disposal of the US government.

* 1957 – Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.

In 1968, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Epperson v. Arkansas 393 U. S. 97 ( 1968 ) that such bans contravene the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment because their primary purpose is religious.

Arkansas is the top rice-producing state in the nation, and is also noted for catfish, pork barbecue at restaurants, and chicken.

This term is commonly used in New England, Appalachia, Arkansas and Missouri to describe such geographic features, in Appalachia it may be pronounced as " Holler ".

** The first Walmart store, then known as Wal-Mart ( which is still the corporate name ), opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.

* August 6 – American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with the USS Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

As Governor of Arkansas, Clinton overhauled the state's education system, and served as Chair of the National Governors Association.

He helped Arkansas transform its economy and significantly improve the state's educational system.

In 1957, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called out his state's National Guard to block black students ' entry to Little Rock Central High School.

Yell County is Arkansas's 41st county, formed on December 5, 1840 and named after Archibald Yell, who was the state's first member of the United States House of Representatives and the second governor of Arkansas ; he later was killed in combat at the Battle of Buena Vista during the Mexican-American War.

Woodruff County is Arkansas's 54th county, formed on November 26, 1862, and named for William E. Woodruff, founder of the state's first newspaper, the Arkansas Gazette.

Nevada County is Arkansas's 63rd county, formed on March 20, 1871, and named after the state of Nevada because of the perceived similarity between their physical shapes ; the Arkansas county's shape roughly follows the same outline as the state's boundary when inverted.

Additionally, Miller County was the first of the state's counties to be formed upon the creation of the Arkansas Territory.

The Arkansas General Assembly defined the state's 64th county on March 22, 1871, and named it Sarber County for John N. Sarber, the Republican state senator from Yell County who had introduced the resolution.

The first of the state's 75 present-day counties to be created, Arkansas County was formed on 13 December 1813 and is named after the Arkansas Indian tribe.

Along with Bentonville, Rogers, and Fayetteville, Springdale is one of four primary cities that comprise the Northwest Arkansas region, the state's second most populous metropolitan area.

On 25 September 1836, shortly after Arkansas was granted its statehood, Governor Conway incorporated Batesville Academy, the state's first academy.

Popular tourist draws include the Oklahoma Aquarium ( the state's only freestanding aquarium ) and the Riverwalk Crossing shopping / walking district along the Arkansas River.

Arkansas has a similar arrangement as the term “ article ” in that state's law generally refers to a subdivision of the Arkansas Constitution.

When Faubus returned from the war, he cultivated ties with leaders of Arkansas ' Democratic Party, particularly with progressive reform Governor Sid McMath, leader of the post-war " GI Revolt " against corruption, under whom he served as director of the state's highway commission.

Arkansas State University ( also known as ASU, ASTATE or " stAte ") is a public university and is the flagship campus of the Arkansas State University System, the state's second largest college system and third largest university by enrollment.

Sidney Sanders McMath ( June 14, 1912October 4, 2003 ) was a decorated U. S. Marine, attorney and the 34th Governor of Arkansas ( 1949 – 1953 ) who, in defiance of his state's political establishment, championed rapid rural electrification, massive highway and school construction, the building of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, strict bank and utility regulation, repeal of the poll tax, open and honest elections and broad expansion of opportunity for black citizens in the decade following World War II.

In 1988, Witt was appointed by then-Governor Bill Clinton to be the head of the Arkansas Office of Emergency Services where he reorganized the state's emergency management process.

In the Arkansas legislature, Snyder stepped into one of his earliest legislative controversies when he attempted to repeal the state's aged " Sodomy Laws ".

He was hired by publisher Walter E. Hussman, Jr., who intended to take on the rival Arkansas Gazette which was the state's premier newspaper and the oldest continuously published newspaper west of the Mississippi River.