LITTLE ROCK — Elsewhere in entertainment this weekend:
Zinse Agginie and his African Drum Ballet, along with several fifth-grade students from Oak Park Elementary School and dance students from Dollarway High School, will perform at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, 701 Main St., Pine Bluff. The center will also offer docent-led tours of the current exhibit “Expressions of African Culture”; make-a-drum craft; and face painting, 1-4 p.m. Admission is free. Call (870) 536-3375 or visit artssciencecenter.org.
Community Theatre of Little Rock will stage Neil Simon’s Comedy Plaza Suite at 7:30 p.m.Friday and Saturday and March 5-6 and 2 p.m. Sunday and March 7 at the Public Theatre, 616 Center St., Little Rock. Tickets are $14, $12 for students and senior citizens 65 and over, free for children 6 and under. A “Pocket Price Preview” performance at 7:30 p.m. today is on a whatever-you-can-pay, first-come, first served basis. Call (501) 663-9494or visit www.communitythe atreoflittlerock.org.
Gary Mullen & The Works will perform their tribute show, One Night of Queen, at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Perot Theatre, 219 Main St., Texarkana. Tickets are $45, $41, $36, $32 and $8, $17.50 for students; $2 per ticket goes to the Theatre Enhancement Fund. A “rad” ’80s street party with refreshments will take place in front of the theater just before to the show. Call (903) 792-4992 or visit trahc.org.
Tickets - $43.25 plus handling charges - go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at the Verizon Arena box office and all Ticketmaster outlets for a 5 p.m. July 18 show by comedian/ventriloquist Jeff Dunham at North Little Rock’s Verizon Arena. Call (800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com.The arena will be using its paperless ticket system for up to 3,000 seats.
The national tour of Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance will include a 7:30 p.m. performance March 14 at Little Rock’s Robinson Center Music Hall, West Markham Street and Broadway.Tickets - $50, $37, $32 and $22 - are on sale at Celebrity Attractions’ offices, 300 S. Spring St., Little Rock; by calling (501) 244-8800 or Ticketmaster at (800) 982-2787 (ARTS); or at Tick etmaster.com. More information on the show is available at CelebrityAttractions.com or LordoftheDance.com.
Productions of two plays by William Shakespeare will be on Arkansas college stages this weekend:
Hendrix College’s theater department will continue its run of Cymbeline, 7:30 p.m. today and Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Cabe Theatre, Hendrix College, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. Admission is free. Call (501) 450-4597.
Arkansas Tech University’s speech, theater and journalism department is staging A Midsummer Night’s Dream at 8 p.m. today-Saturday and March 12-13 and 2 p.m. March 14 in the Techionary, 1502 N. El Paso Ave., Arkansas Tech, Russellville. Tickets are $8, $5 for students. Call (479) 964-0890 or (479) 979-8972.
Weekend, Pages 33 on 02/25/2010