1 CELESTIAL
The Arkansas Symphony "spaces out" for a pair of Masterworks concerts, 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday at Robinson Center Performance Hall, 426 W. Markham St. at Broadway, Little Rock. The program includes Gustav Holst's The Planets and Richard Strauss' tone poem Also Sprach Zarathustra (the opening of which Stanley Kubrick used as the theme for his 2001: A Space Odyssey). A high-definition LED screen above the orchestra will show trivia and NASA images during The Planets; the Harding University Chorus provides the ethereal offstage women's voices for the final movement. Philip Mann conducts. Tickets are $15-$65, $10 for students and active duty military, free to the Sunday matinee for K-12 students with the purchase of an adult ticket. Call (501) 666-1761, Extension 100, or visit ArkansasSymphony.org.
2 '(THE) CREATOR HAS A MASTER PLAN'
Legendary jazz saxophonist and Little Rock native Pharoah Sanders and his band will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Center for Humanities and Arts, University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical College main campus, 3000 W. Scenic Drive, North Little Rock. The concert is part of the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame's eighth Distinguished Laureate Series. Admission is by free ticket if any remain -- visit uaptc.edu/pharoah.
3 CAPRICCIO, ETC.
The Little Rock Wind Symphony salutes local music makers with "Our Musical Heritage," 7:30 p.m. today at Second Presbyterian Church, 600 Pleasant Valley Drive, Little Rock. Pianist Linda Holzer will solo in the regional premiere of the piano concerto Kaintuck by William Grant Still, transcribed for piano and wind ensemble by Dana Paul Perna; the program also includes music by Little Rock native Steven Bryant, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky's Capriccio Italien and arranger Floyd Werle's Ellington Portrait. Tickets are $15, $12 for those 65 and older, free for students. Call (501) 666-0777 or visit lrwindsymphony.org.
4 COURT
Revisit a piece of history as the Weekend Theater, 1001 W. Seventh St., Little Rock, stages Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, the fictionalized depiction of the famed 1925 Scopes "Monkey" trial. Curtain goes up at 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, March 2-3 and 8-10 and 2:30 p.m. March 4. Tickets are $16, $12 for senior citizens and students. Call (501) 374-3761 or visit weekendtheater.org.
5 COMMENTARY
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock's theater arts and dance department explores the issues of race in 21st-century America with An Octoroon by Obie Award-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, 7:30 p.m. today-Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the Haislip Theatre, UALR Center for the Performing Arts, 5900 University Drive, Little Rock. Pre-shop panel discussions start at 6:45 p.m. today-Friday and 1:45 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $10, $5 for faculty, staff, students, military and senior citizens. Call (501) 569-3456 or visit ualr.edu/theatre/season.
6 COMEDY
A middle-aged man with a grown child finds out he's about to be a father again in Sumner Arthur Long's comedy Never Too Late, onstage through March 17 at Murry's Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock. Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and 12:45 and 6:45 p.m. Sunday with special matinees this Wednesday and March 7 (no Wednesday evening shows those dates); doors open and dinner starts 90 minutes before curtain. Tickets are $33-$35, $23 for children 15 and under and show-only tickets are $25 and $15. Call (501) 562-3131 or visit murrysdp.com.
7 CHORAL
Members of the Arkansas Choral Society will offer up "The Very Best of Broadway," with an emphasis on conductor/composer Leonard Bernstein's centennial, 7:30 p.m. Saturday (with light hors d'oeuvres at 7) at the Lobby Bar and Studio Theater, 320 W. Seventh St., Little Rock. Tickets are $20. Call (870) 820-9645 or visit lovetosing.org.
8 CROSSROAD
Celebrate the diverse past, present and future of Jefferson County at the Crossroad Festival at the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, 701 S. Main St., Pine Bluff. The three-day event highlights Cajun and Creole music with a film screening and panel discussion, 6:30 p.m. today; Delta music with performances, 6:30 p.m. Friday; Quapaw Indian heritage with crafts, food and performances, 10 a.m.-noon Saturday; and local black history with living history performances, 1-3 p.m. Saturday. Admission to all events is free. Call (870) 536-3375 or visit asc701.org.
9 CANS
Buy, sell and trade beer cans as the Ar-Cans-Sas and Progress Chapters of the Brewery Collectibles Club of America hold their annual Vic Olson Memorial Beer Can & Breweriana Collectors Show, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Best Western Inn of the Ozarks, U.S. 62, Eureka Springs. Admission is free. Visit BCCA.com or the Facebook page, Facebook.com/BCCAArcansas.
10 C.S. LEWIS
David Payne portrays the title British scholar and fantasist in the one-man show An Evening with C.S. Lewis:
• 7:30 p.m. Saturday, James H. Clark Auditorium, 2300 Prince Street, Conway. Tickets are $35 plus fees, $10 for students and faculty, $50 VIP Reserved (includes a 6 p.m. pre-show meet-and-greet). Call (501) 450-4890 or (800) 965-9324 or visit itickets.com/events/387074 or mikebedfordpresents.com.
• 4 p.m. Sunday, Activity Center, Central United Methodist Church, 6 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. Tickets are $35 and $25, $15 for students, $50 VIP Reserved (includes special VIP seating and a 2:30 p.m. meet-and-greet tea with Payne). Call (800) 965-9324 or (479) 442-4237 or visit itickets.com/events/387081.
Weekend on 02/22/2018