Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
Brockmeier reading
Author and Arkansas native Kevin Brockmeier, the spring semester’s Hendrix-Murphy Writer in Residence at Hendrix College, will read from and discuss his work at 7:30 p.m. today in Reves Recital Hall at Hendrix, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway.
The sponsor is the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Programs in Literature and Language. Admission is free. A reception and book signing in nearby Trieschmann Gallery will follow. Call (501) 450-4597 or email vanaman@hendrix.edu.
Second Star
Ouachita Baptist University’s department of theater arts will stage Second Star to the Right, a Cirque du Soleil-inspired exploration of the story of Peter Pan, created and directed by Kaylee Nebe, a senior musical theater major from Mesquite, Texas, at 7:30 p.m. today-Saturday and Monday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday in Verser Theatre, Jones Performing Arts Center, OBU, 410 Ouachita St., Arkadelphia.
For the show, part of the university’s new student-produced theater initiative, the Muse Project, Nebe has dispensed with dialogue and uses just movement, mostly involving aerial acts.
Tickets are $10. Call (870) 245-5555, email inouyed@obu.edu or visit obu.edu/boxoffice.
Manning ‘Playbook’
Former NFL quarterback and University of Mississippi alumnus Archie Manning will give a talk titled “Playbook for Success” at 7:30 p.m. today in Benson Auditorium, Harding University, Searcy. It’s part of the university’s American Studies Institute Distinguished Lecture Series. Admission is free. Call (501) 279-4497.
Beck tickets
Tickets — $59.50 plus service fees — go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for an 8 p.m. May 16 concert by Beck at Memphis’ Mud Island Amphitheatre. Call (901) 743-2787 (ARTS) or visit ticketmaster.com.