Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
TODAY
Breakfast at Tiffany's
A down-at-heel young writer (Brandon Nichols) is captivated by a charming, vivacious and capricious good-time girl (Rachel Caffey) in Breakfast at Tiffany's, adapted for the stage by Richard Greenberg from the Truman Capote novella, 7:30 p.m. today-Saturday and Feb. 15-17 and 2:30 p.m. Sunday and Feb. 18 at the Studio Theatre, 320 W. Seventh St., Little Rock. Tickets are $20, $15 for senior citizens (65-plus), students and military. Call (501) 374-2615 or visit centralarkansastickets.com or studiotheatrelr.com.
Art, wine, chocolate
Nearly three dozen area artists will gather at Local Colour Gallery, 5811 Kavanaugh Blvd., Little Rock at 5:30 p.m. today for a Valentine-theme show, "Red Wine and Chocolate," featuring art, wine, chocolate, collectibles and small gifts. Admission is free. Call (501) 265-0422, email localcolourgallery@gmail.com or visit localcolourgallery.com.
Twelfth Night
The Royal Players and Saline County Shakes will stage William Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night, 7 p.m. today-Saturday and Feb. 15-17 and 2 p.m. Sunday and Feb. 18 at the Royal Theatre, 111 S. Market St., Benton. Tickets are $12; $10 for those 60 and older, college students with ID and active military; $6 for children. Call (501) 315-5483 or visit theroyalplayers.com.
Civil rights panel
Civil rights leaders and educators Annie Abrams, Elizabeth Eckford and Sybil Jordan Hampton will discuss their memories of the civil rights struggle in Little Rock, their assessment of the current status of civil rights and their projections for the future in a panel discussion, 6 p.m. today at the Center for Humanities and Arts, University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical College main campus, 3000 W. Scenic Drive, North Little Rock. Author, publisher and historian Janis F. Kearney will moderate. The program, marking Black History Month, is in partnership with the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center. Eckford and Kearney will sign books afterward. Admission is free. Call (501) 812-2715 or visit uaptc.edu/charts.
Ordinary Elephant
Nomadic Roots/folk duo Ordinary Elephant will perform at 7 p.m. today at the Lyric Theater, 113 W. Rush Ave., Harrison. Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door. Call (870) 391-3504 or visit TheLyric.org.
FRIDAY
'Found in Nature'
"Found in Nature: Kate Nessler and Barbara Satterfield," drawings of plants in charcoal and pastel on paper by Nessler and clay vessels by Satterfield, debuts with a 2nd Friday Art Night reception, 5-8 p.m. Friday, at Historic Arkansas Museum, 200 E. Third St., Little Rock. The reception will feature beverages, including from Lost Forty Brewing, and appetizers and music by Little Rock reggae-contemporary duo Fire & Brimstone. Admission to the reception and the exhibit, on display through May 6 in the museum's Trinity Gallery, are free. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Call (501) 324-9351 or visit historicarkansas.org.
Musician photos
Images of 20th-century rock 'n' roll, blues, country and folk musicians go on display Friday at the Arkansas Tech University Museum, 1502 N. El Paso Ave., Russellville, in an exhibit titled "Showtime: Photographs of Music Legends by Watt Casey Jr." Casey, who began capturing the images while serving as a roadie for a music touring company in 1974, is scheduled to appear at an opening reception, 2-5 p.m. Friday. The exhibit will be on display through May 11, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, March 10 and April 14. Admission to reception and exhibit are free. Call (479) 964-0826.
SATURDAY
Jonesboro Seussical
Jonesboro's Foundation of Arts will stage Seussical the Musical by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, based on the works of Dr. Seuss, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Monday, and Feb. 15-16 and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Forum, 115 E. Monroe Ave, Jonesboro. Tickets are $17 and $15; $15 and $13 for senior citizens, military and Arkansas State University students, faculty and staff; $8 for children 12 and younger. Sunday's performance is "pay what you can." Call (870) 935-2726 or visit foajonesboro.org.
Costume ball benefit
The Mardi Gras Costume Ball & Contest, 6-11 p.m. Saturday in the ballroom of the Hotel Hot Springs and Spa, 305 Malvern Ave., Hot Springs, will feature music for dancing from Spa City Stompers and Delta Brass Express; a costume contest with $1,000 in cash prizes; a silent auction; and a raffle for a diamond ring of more than two carats. Tickets are $60, $600 for a table of 10. It's a benefit for the Hot Springs Jazz Society; proceeds support scholarships to attend the University of Arkansas at Monticello Summer Jazz Camp. Call (501) 627-2425, email HSJazzSociety@gmail.com or visit HSJazzSociety.org.
SUNDAY
Swing at St. James
Swing Band Reunion, a Little Rock-based swing band, some members of which attend St. James United Methodist Church, will perform big-band tunes, 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the church, 321 Pleasant Valley Drive, Little Rock. Admission is free. Call (501) 217-6700.
Dinner and jazz
The Mardi Gras celebration at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 4106 John F. Kennedy Blvd. in North Little Rock, starts with a Cajun dinner at 6 p.m. Sunday in the Parish Hall, followed by music by the Ted Ludwig Trio at 7. The show is part of the church's Festival of the Senses. Dinner tickets are $15, $8 for children 12 and younger; admission to the concert is free. Call (501) 412-3865.
Weekend on 02/08/2018