Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
WEDNESDAY
Down & Dirty
Little Rock lawyer Roger Glasgow will discuss his new book, Down and Dirty Down South: Politics and the Art of Revenge, at the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies' Legacies & Lunch program, noon Wednesday in the Darragh Center of the Central Arkansas Library System's Main Library, 100 Rock St., Little Rock. The book focuses on Glasgow and his wife's surprising stop at the border and subsequent arrest for drug smuggling as they were returning from a 1972 vacation trip to Mexico. The event is sponsored in part by the Arkansas Humanities Council. Admission is free; attendees should provide a sack lunch and the Butler Center will provide drinks and dessert. Call (501) 918-3033.
Lords and Ladies
The Upper Crust and The Grannies headline a stop on their Lords and Ladies Tour, 9:30 p.m. Wednesday at the White Water Tavern, Seventh and Thayer streets, Little Rock. Frontier Circus will be the opening act. Doors open at 9. Admission is $7 at the door. Call (501) 375-8400.
THURSDAY
Screenwriting and race
Playwright Kevin Willmott, who wrote the screenplay for Spike Lee's Chi-Raq, will discuss "Screenwriting, Race, and Being Creatively Maladjusted" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Reves Recital Hall, Hendrix College, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. Sponsor is the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Programs in Literature and Language. Admission is free. A reception will follow in the nearby Trieschmann Gallery. Call (501) 450-4597, email [email protected] or visit the website, hendrix.edu/hendrixmurphy.
DIRECTOR SEARCH
El Dorado shows
The theater steering committee of South Arkansas Arts Center in El Dorado is taking applications through Nov. 18 from directors, choreographers and music directors for its 2017 season productions: The Neverending Story, David S. Craig's adaption of the film, in March, and The Addams Family -- A New Musical in the summer. Send a letter of intent, a resume, and a short production proposal for each project application to SAAC, 110 E. Fifth St., El Dorado, Ark. 71730, Attn: Executive Director. The center says its salary schedule is "competitive and will be set according to experience." Qualifications include directing/assistant directing experience and knowledge of working with a community theater. Call (870) 862-5474 or visit the website, saac-arts.org.
Style on 10/04/2016