Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
SATURDAY
Joe screenings
Filmmaker and Little Rock native Justin Warren will screen his feature-length comedy Then There Was Joe, 1 and 6:30 p.m. Saturday in Lecture Hall A, Mills Center for Social Sciences, Hendrix College, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway.
Warren, Hendrix class of 2009, wrote, produced, directed, edited and stars in the R-rated film, based on his own family history. He plays an upstanding young law student whose plans to study for the bar exam go by the wayside when his brother (Chicago comedian/actor Ray Grady) is given house arrest for robbing a bowling alley full of birthday-partying third-graders. The cast also includes James "Butch" Warren (the filmmaker's father), T. Dion Burns and Hendrix alumna Natalie Canerday. (Visit thentherewasjoe.com.)
Warren and others associated with the film will take part in question-and-answer panels following each screening. A reception for ticket-holders will follow the second screening at 10 p.m. Copies of the film will be sold in the Mills Center lobby.
Tickets are $10, free for Hendrix students with ID. Seating is limited. Visit tinyurl.com/joetickets. Call (501) 450-1330 or email sos@hendrix.edu.
Met: Live Cosi
Tony Award-winner Kelli O'Hara plays the saucy maid Despina in the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Cosi fan tutte, set "in a carnival-esque, funhouse environment inspired by 1950s Coney Island," according to a news release. The production will screen live, as part of the Met: Live in HD series of cinecasts, 11:55 a.m. Saturday at the Breckenridge Village 12 in Little Rock and the Tinseltown in Benton. Visit metopera.org/HD for ticket information.
Memorial planting
The Central Arkansas Library System will plant a willow oak tree to honor the nearly 72,000 Arkansans who served in World War I, 2 p.m. Saturday at the Max Milam Library, 609 Aplin Ave., Perryville. The planting (postponed from Feb. 24 by inclement weather) is in partnership with the the Arkansas Forestry Commission and the Arkansas World War I Centennial Commemoration Committee, which will add soil from the Meuse-Argonne National Cemetery in France after the tree is planted. Visit cals.org.
Weekend on 03/29/2018