Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
TODAY
Cheaper theater
The Royal Players will stage Cheaper by the Dozen, Christopher Sergel's adaptation of the book by Frank B. Gilreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, 7 p.m. today-Saturday and Feb. 11-13 and 2 p.m. Sunday and Feb. 14 at the Royal Theatre, 111 S. Market St., Benton. Sponsor is Roberson & Associates Insurance. Tickets are $10, $8 for senior citizens, $5 for students. Call (501) 315-5483 or visit theroyalplayers.com.
FRIDAY
Historic church
The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program's Feb. "Sandwiching in History" tour will visit First Presbyterian Church, 800 Scott St., Little Rock, at noon Friday. Attendees, who will hear a brief lecture and tour of the property, should provide their own lunches. Admission is free. Call (501) 324-9880, email [email protected] or visit arkansaspreservation.org.
Pocket production
The Pocket Community Theatre, 170 Ravine St. at Ramble Street, just off Park Avenue, Hot Springs, will stage Crossing Delancey by Susan Sandler at 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday and Feb. 12-13 and 2:30 p.m. Sunday and Feb. 14. Tickets are $10, $5 for children 12 and younger. Call (501) 623-8585 or visit pockettheatre.com.
Kaboom in Conway
Doktor Kaboom will blend theater with the wonders of scientific exploration in Live Wire: The Electricity Tour!, 6 p.m. Friday in Reynolds Performance Hall, University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. Tickets are $10, $5 for children. Call (501) 450-3265 or (866) 810-0012 or visit uca.edu/reynolds.
SATURDAY
Puppet production
Alpha Psi Omega, the University of Central Arkansas' honorary theater society, will host a devised theatre puppet slam titled "Peace, Love and Refugee" at 5 p.m. Saturday at UCA Downtown, 1105 W. Oak St., Conway. The program consists of short collaborative theater performances written by UCA students and focusing on their interpretations of the word "refugee," and derive from a series of devised theatre workshops with April Gentry-Sutterfield and puppetry workshops with Katie Campbell. Some performances may contain adult content. Admission is $5; proceeds go to El Zocalo Immigrant Resource Center in Little Rock. Call (501) 450-5092, email [email protected] or visit uca.edu/theatre/apo_events.
SUNDAY
Conway composers
The Conway Composers Guild Concert, 3 p.m. Sunday at Conway First United Methodist Church, 1610 Prince St., Conway, will feature the premiere of Cling by Ryan Key of Fayetteville, winner of the 2016 McBeth Memorial Composition Competition sponsored by the guild. Support for the award also came from the Conway Symphony Orchestra; Geoffrey Robson and Philip Mann of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra; and Makemusic Software. The program will include works by Jorrell Bonner, Michael Yoder, Paul Dickinson and Hendrix College's Sydney Hickok (Class of 2017) and Karen Griebling. Admission is free. Call (501) 329-3801, email [email protected] or visit facebook.com/ConwayComposers.
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Chesney at AMP
Tickets -- $60-$105 plus applicable fees -- go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for Kenny Chesney's 2016 "Spread the Love" tour stop, with special guest Old Dominion, 7:30 p.m. June 2 at the Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion, 5079 W. Northgate Road, Rogers. They'll be available at Ticketmaster outlets, and 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Friday only at the Tickets Northwest Arkansas Box Office inside Fayetteville's Walton Arts Center at 495 W. Dickson St. (Building opens at 8:30.) Call (800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com.
Def Leppard change
Def Leppard's Tuesday concert at North Little Rock's Verizon Arena has been postponed -- as have the band's remaining Winter 2016 tour dates -- due to illness.
The show will be rescheduled; details on a new date reportedly will be announced soon. Tickets will be honored on the rescheduled date. Full refunds will be available at point of purchase for those who cannot attend the rescheduled date. See defleppard.com for updates.
Weekend on 02/04/2016