Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
Hiding Place!
Christian ballet company Ballet Magnificat! will perform its full-length story ballet Hiding Place!, based on the story of Corrie Ten Boom and her family, Dutch Christians who opposed the Nazis and saved the lives of Jews during World War II, at 3 p.m. Sunday in the James H. Clark Auditorium, Conway High School, 2300 Prince St., Conway.
The performance is under the auspices of the New Creation Dance Company, which will preview its 2014-15 season as part of the performance. Doors open at 2:30. Admission is free; a love offering will be taken. Visit newcreationdance.org or the Facebook page, tinyurl.com/nuuecqj.
Indian dance
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock's Artspree series opens at 3 p.m. Sunday with a performance by the Kathakali Dance Drama with Indian dancer Kalamandalam Shanmukhan, combining dancing, acting, vocal music, percussion and costumes in a single art form dating to 17th-century India, at the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Building, UALR, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock.
The performance will also feature a lecture by Indian scholar Viswanath Kaladharan, who will explain the story and context of scenes from prominent Kathakali plays, and Shanmukhan will then perform each scene.
Tickets are $15, $10 for students. Call (501) 569-8993, email music@ualr.edu or visit ualr.edu/artspree or ualr.tix.com.
Trans-Siberian tickets
Tickets -- $59.50, $74.50 and $89.50 -- go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for the Trans-Siberian Orchestra's performance of their rock opera The Christmas Attic on their Winter Tour 2014, 4 and 8 p.m. Dec. 6 at North Little Rock's Verizon Arena. There's an eight-ticket limit; a portion of all ticket sales will go to a local charity yet to be named. The arena is using its Credit Card Entry system (formerly called Paperless Ticketing). Call (800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com or stonecityattractions.com.
Weekend drama
The Weekend Theater, West Seventh and Chester streets, opens its production of A Quiet End by Robin Swados at 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, with additional performances at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 3-4 and 10-11. The theater will offer post-show talk-backs. Tickets are $16, $12 for students and senior citizens. Visit weekendtheater.org; for information only, call (501) 374-3761.
Conway ArtsFest
The University of Central Arkansas College of Fine Arts and Communication, Hendrix College, Central Baptist College, the Conway schools and the Conway Alliance for the Arts kick off Conway's ArtsFest with a concert by Clare College Cambridge at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Greene Chapel, Hendrix College, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. The concert is also part of Hendrix's Harold Thompson Recital Series.
The program, titled "Rejoice in the Lamb," will include "Magnificat" from Chichester Service and "The Twelve" by William Walton; "O clap your hands together, O ye people" by Orlando Gibbons; "Omnes gentes, plaudite manibus" by Christopher Tye; Three Latin Motets by Charles Villiers Stanford; "The dove descending breaks the air" by Igor Stravinsky; "Magnificat" and "Nunc dimittis" by Herbert Howells; "The turtle dove" and Three Shakespeare Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams; and "Rejoice in the Lamb" by Benjamin Britten. Graham Ross conducts.
Admission is free. A reception will follow in Trieschmann Gallery. Call (501) 450-1249 or email Griebling@hendrix.edu.
The festival will also feature a range of art, music, film, theater, dance and literary productions through Oct. 5 in various Conway venues. A complete schedule is available at artsinconway.org. Email beth.wilson.norwood@gmail.com.
'Frankly, my dear ...'
Cinemark's Conway Towne Center, 201 Skyline Drive, Conway, will screen the 1939 epic film Gone With the Wind, timed to the 75th anniversary of its release, at 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday and Wednesday. The "TCM Presents: Gone With the Wind" screening will include a specially produced introduction by TCM host and film historian Robert Osborne. Ticket information is available at FathomEvents.com.
Dark exhibit
On Saturday, the Museum of Discovery, 500 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock, will open a new exhibit called "In the Dark," exploring the plants and animals that live in caves, the deep sea, the forest at night and underneath the ground via dioramas that use mechanical displays, life-size animal models and informational panels. Museum hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $10, $8 for children 12 and younger. Call (501) 396-7050 or visit museumofdiscovery.org.
Giver on stage
Ouachita Baptist University's theater arts department will stage as a children's play The Giver, adapted by Eric Coble from the novel by Lois Lowry, at 7 p.m. today-Saturday and Monday-Tuesday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday in Verser Theatre at OBU in Arkadelphia. Tickets are $10. Call (870) 245-5555 or visit obu.edu/boxoffice.
Cowboy poetry
The Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View is offering aspiring and experienced cowboy poets a chance to share their works at 2 p.m. Saturday in the state park's White Oak Auditorium. Admission is free; whether you're reading your own original poems or a favorite verse, register at the front desk in the administration office lobby by 1 p.m. Saturday or call (870) 269-3851.
Weekend on 09/25/2014