The Arkansas Arts Center Children's Theatre will close its 2016-17 Studio Show season with Frankenstein, a new stage rendering by the Children's Theatre's Keith Smith of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, 7 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday and Saturday-May 14 at the Arts Center in MacArthur Park, East Ninth and Commerce streets, Little Rock. Tickets are $10, $8 for Arts Center members. Call (501) 372-4000 or visit arkarts.com.
'Take Your Purse'
"Take Your Purse With You: The Reimagined Work of Katherine Strause," paintings of women and their purses by the Little Rock artist, will be on display Tuesday-Aug. 27 at the ESSE Purse Museum, 1510 Main St., Little Rock.
Hours are 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. General admission is $10; $8 for students, senior citizens and military, free for children 5 and younger. Call (501) 916-9022 or visit essepursemuseum.com.
Architecture lecture
Architect Gordon Duckwoth of Wittenberg, Delony and Davidson and Callie Williams and Mason Toms, National Register Historians at the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, will form a panel to discuss "The Modernist Legacy of Noland Blass," 6 p.m. Tuesday in the lecture hall, Arkansas Arts Center, East Ninth and Commerce streets, Little Rock. It's part of the Architecture and Design Network's June Freeman Lecture Series. Admission is free; a 5:30 reception will precede the talk. Email jonathan@amr-architects.com.
Violin and piano
ARmusica members Andrew Irvin, violin, and Julie Cheek, piano, perform at 7 p.m. Tuesday at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 4106 John F. Kennedy Blvd., North Little Rock, the finale of the church's Festival of the Senses season. The program will include the Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major, op.78, by Johannes Brahms; Une Barque sur l'Ocean (A Boat on the Ocean) by Maurice Ravel; and Salut D'Amour, Chanson De Matin and Chanson De Nuit by Edward Elgar. A meet-the-artists reception will follow. Admission is free. Call (501) 753-4281.
Fearful times
The MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History in MacArthur Park, 503 E. Ninth St., Little Rock, will screen Time of Fear, a 2004 documentary about the 16,000 Japanese Americans sent to camps at Jerome and Rohwer in southeast Arkansas during World War II, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. It's part of the museum's Movies at MacArthur series. Admission, popcorn and beverages are free. Call (501) 376-4602 or visit arkmilitaryheritage.com.
Chancellor's art
As part of his investiture celebration, 12 landscape paintings by new University of Arkansas at Little Rock Chancellor Andrew Rogerson go on display Tuesday in Gallery I, Fine Arts Building, UALR, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. The paintings, along with works from the UALR annual Student Competition will be up through May 31. The investiture ceremony will take place at 3 p.m. May 11 at the Jack Stephens Center on the UALR campus. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Admission is free. Call (501) 569-8977 or email becushman@ualr.edu.
'Birds Eye View'
Rap/hip hop artist Travis Scott (the stage name of Jacques Webster), on his "Birds Eye View" tour with Virgil Ablow, will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Walmart AMP, 5079 W. Northgate Road, Rogers. It's part of the 2017 Cox Concert Series. Doors open at 6:30. Tickets are $25-$59.50 plus fees. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit amptickets.com.
Dance concert
Dance Academy students and members of the Pre-Professional Company at Western Arkansas Ballet in Fort Smith will give their annual Spring Dance Concert, 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Van Buren Fine Arts Center, 2001 Pointer Trail, Van Buren. Admission is $5 (cash only) at the door, ($20 maximum per household). Call (479) 785-0152 or visit waballet.org.
The ballet will also hold auditions for its company May 18 (class for ages 11-13, 4-5:30 p.m.; for ages 14 and up, 6-8 p.m.) and for its Ballet II company (ages 9-11), 4-5:30 p.m. May 19, at the Western Arkansas Ballet Studio, 4701 Grand Ave., Fort Smith. There is a $25 audition fee. Candidates should register 30 minutes before the audition class time. Qualifications, requirements and other details are available online at waballet.org/company/auditions. Call (479) 785-0152.
Jacksonville auditions
Community Theater of Jacksonville will hold auditions for Farce of Nature by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten, 6:30-8:30 p.m. May 22-23 at the Jacksonville Community Center, 5 Municipal Drive, Jacksonville. A cast of five men and four women will emerge from cold readings from the script. Production dates are Aug. 11-13. Call (501) 286-3638.
Exploring Rogers
The Rogers Historical Museum is offering "Rogers Explorers," a summer program for children 7-12, on Fridays, 10 a.m. June 9 and 23 and July 14 and 28, starting at the museum's Education Annex, 120 W. Poplar St. at Second Street, Rogers. Each two-hour session will explore a Rogers location, with a speaker, a tour, "fun activity" and a short history lesson. A schedule is available at rogershistoricalmuseum.org/rogers-explorers.html. Cost is $5 per session for the first child, $3 for each additional child; parents are requested to stay with their children. Space is limited and registration is required. Call (479) 621-1154.
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