Elsewhere in entertainment, events and the arts:
TODAY
Jonesboro jazz
Los Angeles saxophonist Alex Hahn will join the Arkansas State University Jazz Orchestra to wrap up the ASU Jazz Studies' third annual Jazz Scholarship Gala, 7:30 p.m. today in Riceland Hall, ASU's Fowler Center, 201 Olympic Drive, Jonesboro. The program will include Jazz Studies' alumnus Joseph Curtis' "Hardly Groovin'," "I Gots the Sleepy Man Blues," "Omage to Bud Shank," "There Will Never Be Another You," "Psychedelic Sun" and a special encore. The evening will open with the Jazz Lab Band playing pieces by Tom O' Connor, Jeff Jarvis and Eubie Blake. Admission is $5, free to students with an ASU ID. Proceeds support the Thomas Miles O'Connor Jazz Performance Award. Call (870) 972-2094.
FRIDAY
Collectors Show
A selection of artworks curated from New York galleries, from Old Master drawings to contemporary works, will be on display -- and on sale -- at the 50th Collectors Show and Sale, Friday through Jan. 6 at the Arkansas Arts Center in MacArthur Park, 503 E. Ninth St. Little Rock. Prices range from $750 to $115,000. Arts Center members can attend a Collectors Show and Sale Brunch, 9 a.m. Dec. 1. Call (501) 372-4000 or visit arkansasartscenter.org.
Organ recital
Organist Hentus van Rooyen, assistant professor of music, sacred music coordinator and college organist at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kan., gives a recital at 8 p.m. Friday at the Cathedral of St. Andrew, 617 Louisiana St., Little Rock, under the auspices of the Central Arkansas Chapter, American Guild of Organists. The program: Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major, BWV 564, and "Allein Gott in der Hoh sei Ehr," BWV 662, by J.S. Bach; Soliloquy by David Conte; Triptyque by Jean Langlais; "Naiades" from Pieces de Fantaisie, op. 55 No. 4, by Louis Vierne; Cortege et Litanie, op.19, by Marcel Dupre; Litanies, JA 119, by Jean Alain; and Prelude et Fugue sur le nom d'Alain, op.7, by Maurice Durufle. Admission is free. Call (501) 374-2794.
One-woman show
Alice Aida Ayers will put on her one-woman show, It's Me I'm Running From, 6 p.m. Friday at ESSE Purse Museum, 1510 Main St., Little Rock. Ayers will also hold a mindfulness workshop, 10 a.m.-noon Saturday at the museum. Admission to the show and the workshop are by donation. Call (915) 315-3986 or email larnie@thebernicegarden.org. More information about the show is available at itsmeimrunningfrom.info.
One-act operas
The University of Arkansas at Monticello Music Theatre Workshop will stage two one-act operas -- The Old Maid and the Thief by Gian-Carlo Menotti and A Little Nightmare Music by P.D.Q. Bach (concerning the mysteries surrounding the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, "fatefully" edited by Professor Peter Schick) -- 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday in the Fine Arts Center Auditorium, UAM, U.S. 425, Monticello. Tickets are $10, $5 for students 12-high school, free for UAM students, faculty and staff. Call (870) 460-1060.
Jonesboro Nutcracker
Jonesboro's Foundation of Arts offers its annual staging of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday and Monday-Tuesday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Forum Theater, 115 E. Monroe St., Jonesboro. Tickets are $15-$17, $13-$15 senior citizens, military and Arkansas State University students, faculty and staff, $8 children 12 and younger. Call (870) 935-2726 or visit foajonesboro.org.
SATURDAY
Christmas Expo
Vendors from a four-state region (Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri and Arkansas) will be on hand for the Christmas Holiday Expo at the Holidome, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday at the Holidome at Holiday Inn, 1121 E. Main St., Blytheville. Guests can snack on free appetizers, cupcakes, candy and Christmas punch and spiced cider. Giveaways will include a diamond cluster ring valued at more than $1,900. There will be music from 9 a.m.-noon and 2-5 p.m.; Santa Claus will be on hand noon-2 p.m. for free pictures with the kids. Gift wrapping will be available and there will be an Ugly Christmas Sweater Contest. Admission is $2. Visit tinyurl.com/Holidome.
SUNDAY
ASO 'seasonings'
The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra performs traditional and pops Christmas music for "Home for the Holidays," 7 p.m. Sunday, Riceland Auditorium, Grand Prairie Center, Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas-Stuttgart, 2709 U.S. 165 South, Stuttgart. Tickets are $45 and $35. Support comes from Entergy Arkansas and the Arkansas Arts Council. Call (870) 673-4201, Extension 1895, or visit pccua.edu/GPC or tinyurl.com/gpcaso.
TICKETS
Lovett and Hiatt
Advance tickets -- $45-$115 -- go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for a concert by Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt, 8 p.m. Feb. 17 in the First Financial Music Hall at the Griffin, 101 E. Locust St. in El Dorado's Murphy Arts District. Call (870) 444-3007 or visit eldomad.com.
'Weird Al' at Verizon
Tickets -- $39.50-$85 (plus fees) -- go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Strings Attached" tour show, billed as "an evening of hits and classics, backed by a full symphony orchestra," 8 p.m. Sept. 1 in The Theater @ Verizon Arena. Call (800) 745-3000 or visit Ticketmaster.com.
Weekend on 11/15/2018