Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
TODAY
Jazz-organ combo
Jazz organist Brian Hamby and the Jazz Organ Collective -- Michael Bartelett on guitar, Micah Boswell on drums, Dave Williams II on tenor sax and singer Nancy Carlton -- will perform jazz standards, 7 p.m. today at the Coronado Center, 150 Ponderosa Way, Hot Springs Village. Tickets are $10. Call (501) 922-5050 or (512) 964-5927, email b3hamby@yahoo.com or visit b3hamby.com.
FRIDAY
Scholars exhibit
The Arkansas Committee Scholars exhibit, work by recent recipients of the Polly Wood Crews Scholar Award, opens Friday in the Downstairs Gallery at the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, 401 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. The exhibition consists of digital photography by Maxine Payne of Greenbrier, cyanotype photography by Beverly Buys of Hot Springs and pastel drawings and paintings by Robin Miller-Bookhout of North Little Rock. The center will feature the exhibit in Second Friday Art Night receptions, 5-8 p.m. Friday and Feb. 10. Sponsor is the Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, a statewide volunteer nonprofit that advocates for female Arkansas artists. The exhibit will be up through Feb. 10. Admission to the receptions and gallery are free. Visit nmwa.org.
Community orchestra
Also for Second Friday Art Night, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Community Orchestra will perform two Franz Joseph Haydn symphonies and part of a third, plus the St. Paul Suite by Gustav Holst, during the 5-8 p.m. Friday reception at Old State House Museum, 300 W. Markham St., Little Rock. Victor Ellsworth conducts. Admission is free; refreshments will be provided. The museum can validate one hour of parking in the adjacent DoubleTree Hotel parking garage for patrons. Call (501) 324-9685 or visit oldstatehouse.com.
Organ concert
Organist Joshua Stafford, director of music at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Morristown, N.J., will give a concert at 8 p.m. Friday at Christ Episcopal Church, 509 Scott St., Little Rock, under the auspices of the Central Arkansas chapter, American Guild of Organists. His program: Organ Concerto in a minor after Antonio Vivaldi, BWV 593; Chorale Prelude, "O lamm Gottes unschuldig," BWV 656; and the Passacaglia in c minor, BWV 582, by Johann Sebastian Bach; Ciaccona by Bernardo Storace; Fantasia sopra Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele by Johann Ludwig Krebs; Edwin H. Lemare's transcription of Carnival Overture, op.92, by Antonin Dvorak; Two Preludes on Early American Hymn Tunes: "There is a happy land" and "I love thee, my Lord," by George Shearing; Prelude and Fugue in B major, op.99 No. 2, by Camille Saint-Saens; and Sonata Eroica, op.94, by Joseph Jongen. Admission is free. Call (501) 375-2342.
UALR exhibitions
January exhibitions in the Fine Arts Building, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock (lecture by Lap Le, 6 p.m. Friday, Fine Arts Room 161; reception, 7-8:30 p.m. Friday):
• Saturday-March 3, Gallery I: "Sigh-Fi," which gallery director and curator Brad Cushman describes as "a user-altered infrastructure that manipulates relationships between architectural volume and contemporary art with a presentation of work formed around ideas of the mundane in science fiction." Curated by Haynes Riley with Hartmut Austen, Aaron Jones, Lap Le, Anne Libby, Sondra Perry, Martine Syms and Tan Zich. Curator-led tour, 12:15 p.m. Feb. 23.
• Through Feb. 26, Maners/Pappas Gallery: "I wish I would have hugged them more," work by Carey Roberson, who teaches photography and digital imaging at UALR, "integrates traditional studio media with new digital technologies and methods to create quiet personal narratives."
• Saturday-Feb. 26, Gallery III: "Burlesque Show," sculpture in burled hardwoods by Bruce Reed.
Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, 2-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. Call (501) 569-8977 or email becushman@ualr.edu.
Coterie concert
Jazz pianist Tom Cox and guitarist Michael Carenbauer will perform for the Little Rock Musical Coterie, 11 a.m. Friday at Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church, 4823 Woodlawn Ave., Little Rock. In addition to solo performances from both musicians and some improvisation, Carenbauer will play works by 19th-century Italian composers Matteo Carcassi and Mauro Guiliani. Admission is free. Call (870) 403-2350.
Auditions
Weekend plays
The Weekend Theater, West Seventh and Chester streets, will hold auditions at 10 a.m. Saturday and 6 p.m. Sunday for two plays:
• The Bad Seed by Maxwell Anderson and William March. Director Tommie Tinker (tomktinker@gmail.com) will cast seven men (six mid-20s to early 50s; one late 50s to early 70s), four women (mid-20s to early 60s) and one girl (to play 8 years old; older children will be considered if they look young enough) via readings from the script. "Sides" (script pages) are available online at tinyurl.com/badseedsides. Production dates: March 31, April 1, 7-9, 13-15.
• In the Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks. Director Jermaine McClure (jboog2k3@hotmail.com) will cast six adults -- three men and three women -- via cold readings from the script. Production dates: May 5-6, 12-13, 18-21.
Auditioners need attend only one session. Audition forms are available online at tinyurl.com/hrvedan; also provide, if you have one, a recent photo, preferably no larger than 4 inches square. Call (501) 374-3761 or email info@weekendtheater.org.
Tickets
Charlie Wilson
Tickets -- $59.50-$97.50 -- go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for R&B singer Charlie Wilson, on his "In It to Win It" tour with "special guest" Fantasia, plus Johnny Gill and pop music duo Solero, 7 p.m. Feb. 20 at North Little Rock's Verizon Arena. There is an eight-ticket-per-household limit. Call (800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com.
Weekend on 01/12/2017