Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
Rockin' Horses
Country-rock band A Thousand Horses will perform at 7 p.m. today at the Vada Sheid Community Development Center, Arkansas State University-Mountain Home, 1600 S. College St., Mountain Home. Tickets are $25.50 and $15.50 (plus fees), $35.50 for VIP tickets, which include a special meet and greet event with the band. Call (800) 965-9324 or (870) 508-6280 or visit thesheid.com.
Russellville Poppins
Arkansas River Valley Arts Center will stage the musical Mary Poppins (original music and lyrics by Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman, new music and additional lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, book by Julian Fellowes, based on the Disney film and the stories of P. Travers), 7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday and 7 p.m. Monday at Russellville High School Center for the Arts, 2209 S. Knoxville Ave., Russellville. Tickets are $16, $8 for children, free for kids 3 and younger. Center members get a $3 discount. Call (479) 968-2452 or visit rivervalleyartscenter.org.
Film festival
Filmmakers Corner, a collective of black central Arkansas filmmakers, will open the second annual Filmmakers Corner Film Festival at 12:30 p.m. Saturday at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, 501 W. Ninth St., Little Rock. The festival, featuring mostly short films by filmmakers from this area and around the country, is part of the center's annual Juneteenth Celebration of Freedom.
Featured films include Emory Douglas: The Art of the Black Panthers, an 8-minute documentary by Tara Stomberg, at 12:56 p.m.; David's Reverie by Neil Creque Williams, 2:20 p.m. (20 minutes); One Hitta Quitta by Ya'ke Smith, 3:35 p.m. (8 minutes); and the feature documentary The Hip-Hop Fellow by Kenneth Price, 3:45 p.m. (78 minutes). A complete lineup is available online at tinyurl.com/pvvqwpk.
Admission is free. Call (501) 351-0452 or email filmmakerscornerfilmfestival@gmail.com.
Right play
A hustler conceives a manipulative plan to use his brother's church to expand his phony empire in Lord Why Can't I Do Right? by Little Rock native Richard Torrence III (now a marketing executive at Dell Global, formerly DJ "Richie Rich" on Little Rock radio station KIPR-FM, 92.3, "Power 92"), onstage at 8 p.m. Friday at the Perot Theatre, 221 Main St., Texarkana, and 6 p.m. Sunday at the Statehouse Convention Center, Markham and Main streets, Little Rock. Tickets for the Texarkana performance are $27.50; call (903) 792-4992 or visit trahc.org/buy-tickets. For Little Rock, tickets are $25 in advance, $30 day of show. Call (229) 588-2323 or visit tinyurl.com/nwncz8a.
Carta blanche
Lewis Neilson Jr., chancellor of the National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons, will discuss the importance of the Magna Carta and the institutions that have preserved its principles in a talk titled "The Magna Carta at 800" at noon Friday in Sturgis Hall, Clinton School of Public Service, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. The talk, in partnership with the Clinton Foundation and the Pulaski County Bar Association, marks the 800th anniversary this week of King John signing the document in Runnymede, England. Admission is free; to reserve a seat, email publicprograms@clintonschool.uasys.edu or call (501) 683-5239.
Weekend on 06/25/2015