Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
TODAY
Ballet backgrounder
Ballet Arkansas Artistic Director Michael Fothergill will discuss the origins of European traditional dance and its evolution to classical ballet in a lecture titled "Art of Motion and Music: Traditional Movement and the Origins of Classical Dance," including a demonstration and costume display, 6 p.m. today in the Lower Lobby Lecture Hall, Arkansas Arts Center in MacArthur Park, 501 E. Ninth St., Little Rock. A 5:30 wine reception will precede the lecture. Admission is $10, free for Arts Center members. Call (501) 372-4000 or visit ArkansasArtsCenter.org.
Nevermore on stage
Actor Jeffrey Combs will perform his one-man show Nevermore -- An Evening With Edgar Allan Poe, 7:30 p.m. today in Arkansas State University-Beebe's Owen Center Auditorium, 910 Pecan St., Beebe. Tickets are $10, $5 for senior citizens, students, military and educators. Call (501) 882-8957 or visit asub.ticketleap.com.
Exodus ballet
Jonesboro's Foundation of Arts is staging The Exodus, a ballet that choreographers Alisa Becton, Kaitlyn Bass, LeeAnn King, Megan Dacus, Abi Mason and Annie Andrews have set to The Prince of Egypt movie soundtrack, 7:30 p.m. today-Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Forum, 115 E. Monroe Ave., Jonesboro. Tickets are $17; $15 for senior citizens, military and Arkansas State University students, faculty and staff, $8 for children 12 and younger. Call (870) 935-2726 or visit foajonesboro.org.
FRIDAY
Pen show
The Arkansas Pen Club will hold its 35th annual Arkansas Pen Show, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 201 S. Shackleford Road, Little Rock. Admission is $5 per day or $10 for a weekend pass. Visit Arkansaspenclub.com.
Filmmaker Spotlight
Little Rock filmmaker Mark Thiedeman will host a preview screening of his original short film, Alex in the Morning, and the full-length feature Paranoid Park by Gus Van Sant (one of Thiedeman's favorite filmmakers), 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., Little Rock. A question-and-answer session with members of the Alex in the Morning cast and crew will follow, with an after party at Zin Urban Wine & Beer Bar, 300 River Market Ave., Little Rock. It's part of the Arkansas Cinema Society's Arkansas Filmmaker Spotlight. Tickets are $12. Doors open at 5:30. Visit arkansascinemasociety.org/events.
SATURDAY
Film festival
The Hot Springs Arts & Film Institute's inaugural Hot Springs International Women's Film Festival, Saturday-Sunday at the Central Theater, 1008 Central Ave., Hot Springs, includes short and feature films (50 minutes or longer) in foreign, documentary, animation, student, and music video categories made by or about women. Actress Tamara Glynn (Halloween 5) will host and moderate question-and-answer sessions with filmmakers.The camera crane Alfred Hitchcock used during the filming of Psycho and The Birds will be on display, including during a St. Patrick's Day Parade outside the theater that starts at 7:40 p.m. Saturday. Two-day passes are $45, day passes are $24 and single-film tickets are $10, available at tinyurl.com/y7zo7hdy. A complete schedule and a list of films is online at hotspringswomensfilmfestival.com. Email info@hotspringsinternationalwomensfilmfestival.com or or visit the Facebook page, facebook.com/HSWFF.
Sister Rosetta tribute
March means Sister Rosetta Tharpe Month in her hometown of Cotton Plant and the soon-to-be-inducted-member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will be honored Saturday with a tribute concert at ACARE Theatre Park, 239 W. Main St. The tribute comes a day after Friday's 10 a.m. unveiling of a sign memorializing Tharpe on the Arkansas Delta Music Trail in front of the Cotton Plant Historical Museum, 142 Central St.
Music gets underway at 1 p.m. Saturday and scheduled performers include Judy Williams Cornelious, Lovie Wofford and a Pine Bluff-based Elvis Presley tribute artist. Following the concert will be a viewing of the PBS American Masters documentary Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Godmother of Rock & Roll.
Tharpe, whose guitar playing and blend of gospel and secular music helped paved the way for early rock, died in Philadelphia in 1973. She was voted into the Cleveland-based Rock and Roll of Hall of Fame this year and will be inducted on April 14.
Admission to Saturday's concert is free. Call (870) 270-0886.
SUNDAY
Community band
The 80-member North Little Rock Community Concert Band opens its 2018 season at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Patrick Henry Hays Center, 401 W. Pershing St., North Little Rock. Conductor Rico Belotti's "Names and Places" program will include the opening "Fanfare" from Also Sprach Zarathrustra by Richard Strauss; K.L. King's march Cyrus the Great; a medley of tunes from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein, arranged by Jay Bocook; David Holsinger's On a Hymnsong of Lowell Mason; The Boys of Wexford by Robert Joyce, arranged by Sammy Nestico; and, in honor of the World War I centennial, James Reese Europe's 369th Hellfighter Band, a medley of ragtime, blues and hot jazz compiled by arranger James Lamb. Admission is free. Call (501) 758-2576 or visit nlrcommunityband.com.
AUDITIONS
Two musicals
The Weekend Theater, West Seventh and Chester streets, Little Rock, will hold auditions, 10 a.m. March 24 and 6 p.m. March 25, for two musicals:
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, music and lyrics by David Yazbek, book by Jeffrey Lane. Co-directors Sarah Scott Blakey and Brandon Nichols will cast actors who look between 25-60. Production dates are June 14-17, 21-24, 28-30 and July 1 and 5-8.
• Bare: A Pop Opera, music by Damon Intrabartalo, lyrics by Jon Hartmere, book by Hartmere and Intrabartalo. Director Trent Reese will cast men and women to play characters age 18-60. Production dates: July 27-29, Aug. 3-5, 10-12.
Provide a head shot and be prepared to sing 32 bars of a song in the style of either show (or both) and provide sheet music for the accompanist. The audition could also involve cold readings from the scripts. Participants need to attend only one audition time. Call (501) 374-3761 or visit weekendtheater.org.
TICKETS
Outlaw Festival
Tickets -- $39.50-$99.50 plus service charges -- go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for the Outlaw Music Festival Tour, featuring Willie Nelson & Family, Sturgill Simpson, The Head and the Heart, Ryan Bingham, Lukas Nelson + Promise of the Real, Particle Kid "and other artists to be announced," 4:30 p.m. June 29 at North Little Rock's Verizon Arena There is a 10-ticket limit per household. Call (800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com or livenation.com.
Reynolds in El Dorado
Tickets -- $20 in advance and $25 at the door -- go on sale today for longtime Dave Matthews collaborator Tim Reynolds and his band TR3, 8 p.m. April 10 at Griffin Restaurant, 101 E. Locust St., El Dorado. Call (870) 444-3007 or visit eldomad.com.
Weekend on 03/15/2018