LITTLE ROCK — Also in entertainment and the arts this weekend:
Allen retrospective
“Al Allen: A Retrospective,” works by the Arkansas painter who died in 2008, goes on display Friday in the exhibit hall of the William F. Laman Public Library System’s main library, 2801 Orange St., North Little Rock.
Curator Greg Thompson of Greg Thompson Fine Art and the Laman Library system put together the exhibit, consisting of original “Southern realism” works on canvas and constructions from the 1950s to 2008. It will remain on display through Dec. 12.
Admission is free. Call (501) 758-1720 or visit lamanlibrary.org.
OBU Milk Wood
Ouachita Baptist University’s theater arts department will stage Under Milk Wood, an adaptation of Dylan Thomas’ “play for voices,” at 7:30 p.m. today-Saturday and Oct. 31 and 2:30 p.m. Sunday in Verser Theatre at OBU in Arkadelphia.
An ensemble cast of nine actors plays all of the more than 50 characters in a single day in a fictional, fanciful Welsh fishing town called Llareggub. Daniel Inouye, OBU assistant professor of theater arts, directs.
Tickets are $8. Call (870) 245-5563 or visit www.obu. edu/boxoffice.
Halloween ‘spectacle’
The Vagabond Theatre Company will stage The Halloween Show, a self-described “spectacle” involving puppetry, dance, acrobatics and music, based on classic horror literature and film and Arkansas folklore, at 8 p.m. Friday-Sunday in the Fellowship Hall at Quapaw Quarter United Methodist Church, 1601 S. Louisiana St., Little Rock.
The organizers recommend the show for those over 12. Tickets are $5. Audience members are encouraged to participate in a costume (there will be prizes). Call (347) 450-8242 or visit www.vagabondtheatrecompany.org.
Flatts tickets
Tickets — $60.25, $40.25 and $25.50 plus handling charges — go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for country band Rascal Flatts’ Thaw Out 2012 tour with Sarah Evans and Hunter Hayes at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 11 at North Little Rock’s Verizon Arena.
There is an eight-ticket limit and the arena is using its “paperless ticket” system.
Call Ticketmaster at (800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster. com.
Profzilla fundraiser
Four bands made up of University of Central Arkansas faculty members will perform for Profzilla, a Halloween band-fest fundraiser for the second issue of UCA’s literary journal, the Toad Suck Review (due out in January), at 8 p.m. Friday at Bear’s Den Pizza, 235 Farris Road, Conway.
Participating ensembles: “nu-jazz” duo Vibrant 6th (Jesse Butler and Michael Yoder); a stripped-down version of original blues/jazz band Slings and Arrows (Garry Craig Powell and Chris Craun); Americana/folk rock band Dog Gods (Luke and Alan Pittman, Craig Seager and Marck Beggs); and progressive metal band Still Reign (Jake Brown, Matt Paul, Adam Crain, Andy Honer, Josh Ingram and Tyler Scalise).
Cover charge is $5. Copies of the journal’s Issue No. 1, discounted back issues of Exquisite Corpse Annual (the journal’s previous incarnation) and Toad Suck Review T-shirts will be available for sale. Call (501) 450-3339 or email toadsuckreview@gmail. com.
Hendrix recital
Hendrix College faculty members Joanne McDade, soprano, and John Krebs, piano, will give a recital at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in Reves Recital Hall, Trieschmann Fine Arts Building, Hendrix, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway.
The program will include Liederkreis, op.39, by Robert Schumann; Poema en forma de canciones by Joaquin Turina; and Of a Certain Age by Tom Cipullo.
Admission is free; a reception will follow. Call (501) 450-1245 or e-mail krebs@hendrix. edu.
ASU recital
Arkansas State University music faculty members will give a recital at 7:30 p.m. today in Riceland Hall of ASU’s Fowler Center, 201 Olympic Drive, Jonesboro.
Chris Wilson, trumpet; Dan Ross, oboe; and Lauren Schack Clark, piano, will perform Canzona for Trumpet, Oboe, and Piano by Robert Boury; violinist Daniel Gilbert and pianist Schack Clark will play the Sonatina in G major, op.100, by Antonin Dvorak; several of William Bolcom’s Cabaret Songs by William Bolcom, with Matt Carey, baritone, and Clark at the piano; the Woodwind Quartet in E-flat major, op.8 No. 2, by Karl Stamitz, with Ross, clarinetist Ken Hatch, horn player Robin Dauer and Clark; and the Piano Quintet in E-flat major, op.16, by Ludwig van Beethoven, with Clark, Ross, Hatch, Dauer and bassoonist Dale Clark.
Admission is free. Call (870) 972-2094.
Blues contest
The Arkansas River Blues Society will hold its 2011 Arkansas Blues Contest at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Parrot Beach Cafe, 9611 MacArthur Drive, North Little Rock.
Among the participants: Josh Stoffer, blues-infused folk rock on dobro, classical guitar, mandolin, lap steel, kick drum and foot tambourine; Chris Thomson, aka “Blind Boy White”; Bluesboy Jag and Johnny Baxter, guitar, harmonica, piano and vocals; finger-style bluesman Ben “Swamp Donkey” Brenner; blues guitarist Lucious Spiller; and singer-guitarist David Kimbrough Jr.
Cover charge is $5. Call (870) 833-3498 or (501) 920-7783.
The winners will represent the society at the Blues Foundation’s International Blues Challenge, Jan. 31-Feb. 4 in Memphis.
Always a trap shoot
The Hot Springs Music Festival will hold its first trapshooting contest and fundraiser at 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the Mountain Valley Sportsman’s Association, Ten Mile Road off Mill Creek Road behind Magic Springs amusement park, Hot Springs.
The event will feature food, music “and fun.” Experienced and beginner trapshooters will compete for prizes and bragging rights. Loaner shotguns and safety training will be available. Spectators are welcome.
Entry fee is $50 for individuals, $200 for teams of three, and $10 for spectators; register at hotmusic.org, where you can also find contest rules, prize lists, vendors and musical/marksman trivia. All proceeds benefit the Hot Springs Music Festival Apprentice Scholarship Fund. Call (501) 623-4763.
Giovanni in HD
Three central Arkansas movie theaters and one in Northwest Arkansas will show the “Met: Live in HD” cinecast of the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at 11:55 a.m. Saturday:
Breckenridge Village 12, Breckenridge Village Shopping Center, Interstate 430 and North Rodney Parham Road, Little Rock ($24, $22 senior citizens, $18 children)
Tinseltown 14, 17314 Interstate 30 North, Benton ($22, $20, $15)
Conway Towne Center, 201 Skyline Drive, Conway ($22, $20, $15)
Razorback Cinema, 3956 N. Steele Blvd., Fayetteville ($20 plus service fee)
Tickets are available through www.fathomevents. com.
The University of Central Arkansas will screen the opera on a capture-delay basis at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Donald W. Reynolds Performance Hall, UCA, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway ($15, $5 for students with valid ID). Call (501) 450-3265 or visit uca.edu/reynolds.
Weekend, Pages 33 on 10/27/2011