Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
MUSIC
• "American Idol Stars Celebrate Motown" -- American Idol contestants Gina Glockson (Season 6), Von Smith (Season 8), Melinda Doolittle (Season 6) and Rickey Smith (Season 2) will sing Motown hits, including songs by Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations and Michael Jackson and the Jackson Five, at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Arkansas State University's Fowler Center, 201 Olympic Drive, Jonesboro. The show is part of the university's Riceland Distinguished Performance Series. Sponsor is radio station KISS-FM, 101.7. Tickets are $30 and $20, $23 and $15 for senior citizens and students, with discounts for ASU students, faculty and staff. Call (870) 972-2781 (ASU1) or (888) 278-3267 (ASU-FANS) or visit astate.edu/tickets or yourfowlercenter.com.
THEATER
• The University of Arkansas at Little Rock theater department will stage the musical Little Shop of Horrors (music by Alan Menken, book and lyrics by Howard Ashman) at 8 p.m. today-Saturday and Oct. 16-17, 2:30 p.m. Oct. 18 at the University Theatre, Center for the Performing Arts, UALR, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. Tickets are $10, $5 for senior citizens and UALR students, faculty and staff. Call (501) 569-3456.
• The Royal Players will open their 20th anniversary season with Our Town by Thornton Wilder at 7 p.m. today-Saturday and Oct. 16-18 and 2 p.m. Sunday and Oct. 19 at the Royal Theatre, 111 S. Market St., Benton. Greer's Electric is the co-sponsor. Tickets are $10, $8 for senior citizens, $5 for students; patrons get $1 off a medium or large drink at the concession stand for each ticket purchased online. Call (501) 315-5483 or visit theroyalplayers.com.
• The Lantern Theatre and Conway Community Arts will stage God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza at 8 p.m. today-Saturday at the Lantern Theatre, 1021 Van Ronkle St., Conway, as part of its Late Night at the Lantern series. Due to language and content, the play is recommended for mature audiences only. Tickets are $10; reserve seats via email, ConwayLanternTheatre@gmail.com, or visit conwayarts.org.
FILM
• Public radio stations KUAR-FM, 89.1, and KLRE-FM, 90.5, and the Old State House Museum, 300 W. Markham St., Little Rock, will scream -- er, screen -- The Legend of Boggy Creek, Charles B. Pierce's made-in-Texarkana story of a community terrorized by the Fouke monster, 5-8 p.m. Friday. The showing is part of the museum's Second Friday Cinema series. KLRE/KUAR General Manager Ben Fry, coordinator of undergraduate film studies at UALR, will introduce the movie and lead a discussion after. Admission is free. Call (501) 324-9685 or email info@oldstatehouse.org.
m One Direction: Where We Are -- The Concert Film, recorded during One Direction's "Where We Are" global tour, will be on the big screen at 12:55 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Tinseltown in Benton and the Conway Towne Center in Conway. Tickets are available online at FathomEvents.com.
LETTERS
• Samuel R. Phillips, editor of Torn by War: The Civil War Journal of Mary Adelia Byers, will give a lecture at 5 p.m. and sign copies of the book in conjunction with downtown Little Rock's 2nd Friday Art Night, 5-8 p.m. Friday at the Historic Arkansas Museum, 200 E. Third St., Little Rock. The reception will feature music and refreshments. Admission is free. A free shuttle will take patrons to other Art Night venues through 8:30 p.m. Call (501) 324-9351 or visit HistoricArkansas.org. Byers (1847-1918), Phillips' great-grandmother, recorded her thoughts and observations at age 15 during the Union occupation of Batesville in 1862.
• True crime author and novelist Diane Fanning will discuss and sign her books, including her latest, Under Cover of the Night: A True Story of Sex, Greed and Murder, at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Donald W. Reynolds Library, 300 Library Hill, Mountain Home. Visit baxlib.org.
ETCETERA
• Wildwood Park for the Arts, 20919 Denny Road, Little Rock, will host "Hay Days," noon-4 p.m. on Saturdays through Oct. 31. The event will include tractor-drawn hayrides, storytimes featuring American tall tales and American Indian folklore, and take-home pumpkins. Admission to the park and storytime is free; $5 covers hayrides and pumpkins. Call (501) 821-7275 or visit WildwoodPark.org.
• Country singer Dustin Lynch headlines, at 8 p.m., the musical lineup for Saturday's first Timber Lodge Ranch Fall Festival, at Timber Lodge Ranch, 966 Lodge Road, Amity. Doors open at 10 a.m. with comedian Chucky D on stage; an 11 a.m. cannon shot signals the start of the Boo Bash 4K-6K obstacle run. The festival will offer a Kids Zone play area (free with paid admission), featuring a bounce house, a slide, an obstacle course and face painting. Organizers won't allow coolers in the festival area; there will be food and beer vendors on site. Take lawn chairs or blankets for the concert. Race/concert tickets are $40 in advance, $50 day of; concert-only tickets are $20 in advance, $25 day of. Call (870) 342-9200 or visit timberlodgeranch.com/fallfestival.html.
• Honorary chairman Tony Orlando will top the bill for a fundraiser to erect a larger-than-life bronze statue, "The Fallen Soldier Memorial," in the likeness of Navy Seal Team Six member Adam Brown, 7 p.m. today at First Baptist Church, 2350 Central Ave., Hot Springs. Admission is free. Call (501) 622-9570 or (501) 622-7347.
Weekend on 10/09/2014