ENTERTAINMENT NOTES

Guitarist Beppe Gambetta performs today at The Joint, 301 Main St., in North Little Rock’s Argenta Arts District.
Guitarist Beppe Gambetta performs today at The Joint, 301 Main St., in North Little Rock’s Argenta Arts District.

Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:

TODAY

Argenta guitarist

Italian guitarist Beppe Gambetta performs at 7:30 p.m. today at The Joint, 301 Main St., in North Little Rock's Argenta Arts District. The show is part of the Argenta Arts Acoustic Music Series. Tickets are $25. Call (501) 425-1528 or visit argentaartsacousticmusic.com or centralarkansastickets.com.

New Horizons

Todd Mosby and the New Horizons Ensemble -- Todd Mosby (composer, guitars), Premik Russell Tubbs (flutes, soprano, alto and tenor saxophones, wind synth and lap steel guitar), Jeff Haynes (percussion), Michael Manring (fretless bass), Lola Toben (singer, pianist, songwriter), Bryan Toben (singer, guitarist, songwriter) -- perform at 7 p.m. today in the Ed Coulter Performing Arts Center, the Vada Sheid Community Development Center, Arkansas State University-Mountain Home, 1600 S. College St., Mountain Home. The concert opens the university's Arvest Concert Series. Admission is free. Call (870) 508-6109.

Breakfast at Tiffany's

The South Arkansas Arts Center, 110 E. Fifth St., El Dorado, will open its 2017-18 theater season with Breakfast at Tiffany's, Richard Greenberg's stage adaptation of Truman Capote's 1958 novella, 7:30 p.m. today, Saturday and Monday-Wednesday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Sponsor Murphy-Pitard Jewelers has donated a 51-inch freshwater pearl rope necklace for a raffle (tickets are $20) for Wednesday's closing performance. Tickets are $20, $10 for center members, $5 for students. Call (870) 862-5474 or visit saac-arts.org.

FRIDAY

Rocky Horror

The Weekend Theater, West Seventh and Chester streets, Little Rock, will stage The Rocky Horror Show (lyrics, music and book by Richard O'Brien), 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday through Nov. 5, with an additional midnight show Nov. 4. The production is intended for mature audiences. Tickets are $20, $16 for students and senior citizens; audience "participation packets" will be available for $5 -- no outside props will be permitted in the theater. Visit weekendtheater.org.

Organ recital

Organist Thomas Ospital, titulaire of the grand organ at St. Eustache Church in Paris and newly appointed organist in residence at Radio France Concert Hall, will give a recital at 8 p.m. Friday at First Presbyterian Church, 800 Scott St., Little Rock, under the aegis of the Central Arkansas chapter, American Guild of Organists. The program includes Fantasia, K.608, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Cantabile by Cesar Franck; Funerailles by Franz Liszt; and works and transcriptions of works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Louis Vierne, Gabriel Faure, Claude Debussy and Maurice Durufle, plus an improvisation. Admission is free. Call (501) 372-1804.

Chopin et al.

Pianists Julie Cheek, Neil Rutman and Rex Bell and the Arkansas Baptist College Singers celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Little Rock Nine's desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, 7:30 p.m. Friday at First Presbyterian Church, 201 W. Fourth St., North Little Rock. Cheek will play two Nocturnes by Frederic Chopin, Bell will play a jazz improvisation on Chopin's Nocturne in E flat and Rutman will play Chopin's Sonata in b minor. Terry Wright will read short excerpts of The Life of Chopin by George Sand between movements. The singers will perform a medley. The performers will give a preconcert talk at 7:15. Admission is free; donations to the church are encouraged. Call (501) 450 5767.

Annie Get Your Gun

The Harding University theater department will stage Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun for its annual homecoming musical, 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday in Benson Auditorium at Harding, 915 E. Market Ave., Searcy. A cast meet-and-greet follows each performance in the student center. Tickets are $15 and $18. Call (501) 279-4255 or visit hardingtickets.com.

Songwriters Showcase

Students and area composers will sound off in the University of Arkansas at Little Rock music department's 32nd annual Songwriters Showcase, 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Building, UALR, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. Northwest Arkansas group the Shadow Ensemble performs musical arrangements inspired by early horror, suspense, and science fiction films. Admission is free. Parking will be available in Lot 8 behind the Fine Arts Building. Call (501) 569-3294 or email rxboury@ualr.edu.

SATURDAY

Benefit bash

Hope Rises holds its second annual Halloween Bash, "A Nightmare on Louisiana Street" party, 7-11:30 p.m. Saturday at the Lafayette Building, 523 Louisiana St., Little Rock. The event features a costume contest judged by Little Rock real estate agent Tony Curtis and state Rep. Vivian Flowers of Pine Bluff, awarding prizes for best individual costume and best couple costume. Master of ceremonies is Eric Sullivan of radio station KABZ-FM, 103.7, "The Buzz." Catering will be provided by the Dandy Line Kitchen, a social enterprise program of Hope Rises. The event will also feature music, dancing and drinks and food to raise money for the nonprofit's Women's Reentry Program. Tickets are $50. Visit hoperises.org or the nonprofit's Facebook page.

Fall festival

Garvan Woodland Gardens, 550 Arkridge Road, Hot Springs, celebrates the season with the third annual Family Fall Festival, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday. The event will feature a Spooky Train and first-come first-served trick-or-treat candy, and visitors can pick out a free pie-size pumpkin from the garden's Pumpkin Patch. Admission is $15, $5 ages 4-12, free for kids 3 and younger and members. Call (501) 262-9300 or (800) 366-4664.

That evening, Signature Events and Bubba Brews will hold "Hoptoberfest," billed as "a traditional Oktoberfest celebration," 7 p.m. at the Pavilion at Garvan Gardens, which is co-sponsoring the event. You must be 21 or older to buy tickets -- $55, which includes two pints of Bubba Brews beer, traditional Bavarian food and a polka band; seating is limited to 200. Call (501) 701-7271 or visit hotspringshoptoberfest.com.

Peter Pan

Foundation of Arts will stage Peter Pan (music by Morris "Moose" Charlap, lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, additional music by Jule Styne, additional lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green), 7:30 p.m. Saturday and Monday-Tuesday and 2 p.m. Sunday at The Forum Theatre, 115 E. Monroe Ave., Jonesboro. Tickets are $17, $8 for children; discounts are also available for senior citizens, military and college students. Call (870) 935-2726 or visit foajonesboro.org.

SUNDAY

Comedy Yah Yah

Sketch comedy and improvisation trio the Main Thing will perform Comedy Yah Yah, 7 p.m. Sunday in the parish hall, St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 4106 John F. Kennedy Blvd., North Little Rock. The show is part of the St. Luke's Festival of the Senses series. Appetizers and beverages will precede the show at 6. Admission is free but donations will be accepted. Call (501) 753-4281.

Elaine examination

Historian Jeanie Whayne, a University of Arkansas faculty member, will give a presentation titled "Low Villains and Wickedness in High Places: Race and Class in the Elaine Massacre," 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Beth El Heritage Hall, 406 Perry St., Helena-West Helena. The Delta Cultural Center is hosting the program, which will focus on the way historians have written about the so-called Elaine Massacre but also about the deep tensions that existed within Phillips County in the decades before the massacre occurred. A reception hosted by the Elaine Massacre Foundation will follow. Admission is free. Call (870) 338-4350 or (800) 358-0972 or visit deltaculturalcenter.com.

TICKETS

Lambert at Verizon

Tickets -- $42.75, $62.75 and $77.75 plus service charges -- go on sale at 10 a.m Friday for Miranda Lambert's "Livin' Like Hippies Tour" concert, with "special guests" Jon Pardi and Sunny Sweeney, 7 p.m. March 10 at North Little Rock's Verizon Arena. There is a six-ticket limit per household. Call (800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com or LiveNation.com.

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Allie Scott plays Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun, Friday-Saturday at Harding University in Searcy.

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Lainey Walthall plays Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s at El Dorado’s South Arkansas Arts Center.

Weekend on 10/19/2017

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