Elsewhere in entertainment, events and the arts:
FRIDAY
Comedy and concert
Second Baptist Church, 1709 John Barrow Road, Little Rock, hosts "The Experience Live with TD2," a comedy show and gospel concert, on Friday. Broderick Rice headlines the 5:45 p.m. comedy show, featuring Nate Williams and Andre Price; the 6:40 concert features Todd Dulaney with Torry Dulaney plus a band, along with Harold Wade Jr., Tanj, Amanda Katrice and Roosevelt Harris. Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door, $40 VIP (includes comedy, concert and a meet-and-greet with the performers). Call (501) 398-1113 or (501) 952-8049.
SATURDAY
'Our Front Porch'
"Our Front Porch," a traveling multimedia installation that re-creates the "front porch" as the site of family storytelling, debuts with a gallery opening, 1-4 p.m. Saturday at the Delta Cultural Center, 141 Cherry St., Helena-West Helena.
The event will feature rocking-chair "conversation circles," 1:30-2:15 p.m.; visitors can provide a memory or simply listen to the recollections of others. Blues musician Brotha Ric Patton will perform; visitors can join him on kazoos, shakers, washboard and hula-hoops. There will be children's old-fashioned crafts and storytelling and the works of several Arkansas artists will be on display.
Jeannie Rodriguez-Stone of Traveling Arts Fiesta, a Russellville-based nonprofit, created the exhibit, which will remain up through Sept. 27, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Admission is free. Call (870) 338-4350, email drew.ulrich@arkansas.gov or visit deltaculturalcenter.com or Facebook.com/DeltaCulturalCenter. More information about the exhibit and Traveling Arts Fiesta is available at travelingartsfiesta.com/our-front-porch.
ETC.
Jazz in the Park
ATM (Anything that Moves) kicks off Season 7 of Jazz in the Park, 6 p.m. Sept. 4 at the History Pavilion in Little Rock's Riverfront Park, just west of the First Security Amphitheater (closest entry point is Ottenheimer Drive off President Clinton Avenue). Sponsors are Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau and Art Porter Music Education Inc. Admission is free. In case of rain, the performance will move to the West Pavilion behind the Ottenheimer Market Hall.
The rest of the lineup (all shows, 6 p.m. Wednesday, free):
• Sept. 11: On Call Band
• Sept. 18: Tonya Leeks
• Sept. 25: Rodney Block.
Lawn chairs and blankets are welcome, and there is some seating in the natural stone amphitheater at the History Pavilion. Beer, wine, soft drinks and water will be available for sale (no coolers are allowed.); a portion of the proceeds from the sale of Jazz in the Park koozies benefits APME. Calk (501) 375-2552 or visit rivermarket.info.
State Fair lineup
Rick Springfield will headline the first of nine concerts, 8 p.m. Oct.11, on the Landers Chrysler Dodge Jeep Main Stage at the Arkansas State Fair, Oct. 11-20 at the State Fairgrounds, 2600 Howard St., Little Rock.
The lineup also includes (except as noted, all concerts 8 p.m.):
• Oct. 12: Craig Morgan
• Oct. 13: Ralph Tresvant, 7 p.m.
• Oct. 15: The Oak Ridge Boys
• Oct. 16: Tragikly White
• Oct. 17: Zac Dunlap Band
• Oct. 18: Gin Blossoms
• Oct. 19: Sawyer Brown
• Oct. 20: Dazz Band, 7 p.m.
Concerts are free with gate admission. Concert deck seating is $25. Visit ArkansasStateFair.com.
Shows sought
The Weekend Theater, West Seventh and Chester streets, Little Rock, is seeking recommendations for plays — comedies, dramas and musicals that deal with social issues — for its 2020-21 season. Download a submission form — covering show information, the social problems the script addresses and why you think the theater should produce it — at weekendtheater.org/news-events; submit by Sept. 1 via email to playselection@weekendtheater.org. If possible, provide a copy of the script (copies of scripts will become property of the theater); note it on the email submission and mail scripts to P.O. Box 251130, Little Rock, Ark. 72225, or arrange to drop them off at the theater, 1001 W. Seventh St., Little Rock. You can also submit suggestions for possible show directors.
AUDITIONS
Nutcracker festival
Arkansas Festival Ballet will hold auditions for its production of P.I. Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, Aug. 24 at the Arkansas Academy of Dance studios, in the Breckenridge Village Shopping Center, Interstate 430 and North Rodney Parham Road, Little Rock. Audition times: Dancers ages 6-8, 10-11 a.m. (registration at 9:30); age 9-11, 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. (registration at 11:15); age 12 and older, 1:30-3 p.m. (registration at 1). Provide a photograph clearly labeled (on the back) with dancer's first and last name, age and birth date; audition forms will be available at the studio. There is a $35 audition fee and dancers who are cast will be required to pay a production fee. Additional details and requirements are available at ArkansasDance.org/history-of-afb/auditions.
The full cast will perform the full ballet with the South Arkansas Symphony Orchestra on Nov. 30 at the Murphy Art District's First Financial Hall in El Dorado and Dec. 1 at the Performing Arts Center at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. A partial cast will perform excerpts with Little Rock Winds on Dec. 5 at the Center for Humanities and Arts at the University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical College in North Little Rock and with the Conway Symphony Orchestra on Dec. 7 at Reynolds Performance Hall at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway.
Weekend on 08/15/2019