Members of the improvisation comedy troupe The Second City perform "The Best of The Second City," a collection of the best sketches and songs made famous by Second City veterans and Saturday Night Live performers Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, Amy Poehler, Steve Carell, Gilda Radner, Jordan Peele, Mike Myers, John Belushi and Bill Murray, 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Owen Center Auditorium Arkansas State University-Beebe, 910 Pecan St., Beebe.
Tickets are $10, $5 for senior citizens, students, military and educators. Call (501) 882-3600 or visit the website, asub.ticketleap.com.
Crypt-ic tales
Students from Parkview Art/Science Magnet High School tell "Tales of the Crypt" in period costume at Mount Holly Cemetery, 1200 Broadway, Little Rock, 6-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, performing four-minute monologues of their own creation based on the history of the famous, infamous and ordinary cemetery "residents" they portray. Student tour guides escort groups from one grave site to another while providing details on the cemetery's 175-year history.
Admission is free; donations support cemetery maintenance. Living guests should wear comfortable shoes as some cemetery paths are uneven. The approximately 45-minute tours start at the east gate. Call (501) 804-6239 or visit parkviewtheatre.com or tinyurl.com/y6v7j682.
Fall Out Boy
Fall Out Boy, on its "Mania" tour with Machine Gun Kelly, performs at 7 p.m. Tuesday at North Little Rock's Verizon Arena. Tickets are $30.50-$70.50 plus service charges. There is a limit of six tickets per household. Call (800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com or LiveNation.com.
As UALR Like It?
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock's theater arts and dance department will stage William Shakespeare's As You Like It, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Oct. 14 in the Haislip Theatre, Center for Performing Arts, UALR, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. Tickets are $10, $5 for military and senior citizens and UALR faculty, staff and students. Call (501) 569-3456 or visit ualr.edu/theatre/season.
Architecture lecture
Sasa Radulovic, architect and founding partner with Winnipeg, Canada-based 5468796 Architecture Inc., will discuss her firm's work in the Architecture and Design Network's October June Freeman lecture, 6 p.m. Tuesday in the lower-level Lecture Hall, Arkansas Arts Center in MacArthur Park, 501 E. Ninth St., Little Rock. A 5:30 p.m. reception will precede the lecture. Admission is free. Email [email protected].
'Moxie Matters'
Jen Hatmaker, author of Of Mess and Moxie and For the Love, and Dove Award-winning singer/songwriter Nichole Nordeman perform their faith-centered Moxie Matters show, 7 p.m. Monday at Robinson Center Performance Hall, 426 W. Markham St. at Broadway, Little Rock. It will be the first stop on a multi-city tour. Presenter is Little Rock's Pulaski Heights Methodist Church. Doors open at 6. Tickets are $34, available online at moxiematterstour.com.
Blue collar, white collar
As rumors surface about a closing date, sparks fly on the production line -- and in the break room -- at Detroit's last exporting auto plant and the line between blue-collar and white-collar blurs in Skeleton Crew by Dominique Morisseau. TheatreSquared stages the play, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday through Nov. 4 at Walton Arts Center's Nadine Baum Studios, 505 W. Spring St., Fayetteville.
The theater is recommending the play for patrons 13 and older. Tickets are $17-$54, $10 for patrons under 30, $5 for SNAP recipients (through T2's Lights Up! For Access program, supported by the Walmart Foundation). Call (479) 443-5600 or visit theatre2.org; for more information, call (479) 445-6333.
Protest silkscreens
"Artist as a Catalyst," 10 silkscreens that artists donated in 1992 to the now-closed Alternative Museum in New York City to protest cuts in public funding, goes on display Wednesday in Gallery III, Fine Arts Building, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. The exhibit remains up through Nov. 10; gallery hours are 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. Admission is free. Call (501) 569-8977 or email [email protected].
On the Rampage
Author and historian James M. Scott will discuss and sign copies of his newly released book Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila, 7 p.m. Wednesday at the MacArthur Military Museum of Arkansas History, 503 E. Ninth St., Little Rock.
Scott, a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard, is the author of 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist Target Tokyo. Admission is free; the book will be available for sale. Call (501) 376-4602 or email [email protected].
AMP shows
This week at the Walmart AMP, 5079 W. Northgate Road, Rogers -- call (479) 443-5600 or visit amptickets.com:
• Mexican singer/songwriter and accordionist Noel Torres headlines "Celebrando La Musica," a celebration of Hispanic music, culture and food presented by Walmart.com, 1-5 p.m. today. Admission is free. Visit latinotv.com.
• Members of the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas will be part of the orchestra performing John Williams' score for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as the film plays in high-definition on a 40-foot screen, 7 p.m. Saturday. Constantine Kitsopoulos conducts. Tickets are $22-$75.
WAC performances
Arkansas storytelling singer-songwriters Still on the Hill -- Kelly and Donna Mulhollan -- perform material from their latest recording, Cane Hill Stories, 4 p.m. today at Fayetteville's Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St. Admission is free.
And George Brooks' ASPADA -- saxophonist and composer George Brooks, percussionist Selvaganesh, bass player Kai Eckhardt and pianist Osam Ezzeldin -- bridges jazz and Indian classical music, 7:30 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $30-$50 plus fees.
Call (479) 443-5600 or visit waltonartscenter.org.
Artists' tour roster
Oct. 19 is the deadline for artists and performers to sign up -- online at tinyurl.com/arkartsroster -- for the Arkansas Arts Council's Arts on Tour roster, which lists solo performers and groups, visual artists, entertainers and exhibitions available for touring within the state.
To be eligible, a group or individual must maintain a primary residence in Arkansas or have an Arkansas-based contact and must have worked in locations away from their homes at least twice in the previous year. An independent panel chooses the additions to the roster (available at arkansasarts.org) via an audition and interview process. Call (501) 324-9768 or email [email protected].
Style on 10/07/2018