Elsewhere in entertainment, events and the arts:
TODAY
Acoustic guitar
Canadian singer-songwriter Brooke Miller performs at 7:30 p.m. today at The Joint, 301 Main St., North Little Rock, part of the Argenta Acoustic Music Series. Tickets are $25. Call (501) 425-1528, email steve@stevedavison.com or visit argentaacoustic.com.
Straight Outta Coffin
Red Octopus Theater performs its Halloween-theme sketch comedy show Straight Outta Coffin, 8 p.m. today-Saturday and Oct. 26-27 at the Public Theatre, 616 Center St., Little Rock. Due to adult language and situations, the troupe recommends the show for mature audiences. Doors open at 7:15. Tickets, at the door only, are $10, $8 for senior citizens, military and students. Call (501) 291-3896, email RedOctopusTheater@gmail.com or visit redoctopustheater.com.
Poetry open mic
Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, 501 W. Ninth St., Little Rock, hosts "AfriCOBRA After Dark," an open mic night, 6-8 p.m. today. Poets of all levels of skill and experience can take part; spectators are also welcome. Host is Leron Charles McAdoo, aka Ron Mc, a Little Rock-based artist, musician, writer and performer. The event is in conjunction with the current exhibit, "Respect: Celebrating 50 Years of AfriCOBRA." Refreshments and libations will be available. Sponsors are Brewsters 2 Soulfood Cafe and Farmers Insurance -- Daniel Seay Agency. Admission is free. Call (501) 683-3593 or email info@mosaictemplarscenter.com.
FRIDAY
Conway Rocky Horror
Red Curtain Theatre stages The Rocky Horror Show (music, lyrics and a book by Richard O'Brien), 7 p.m. Friday-Sunday and Oct. 27-28 and midnight Oct. 26 in the Trieschmann Fine Arts Building, Hendrix College, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. The show contains mature content and the theater considers it not suitable for audiences under 18. Tickets are $20. Call (501) 499-9776, email info@redcurtaintheatre.com or visit redcurtaintheatre.com.
SATURDAY
Brass on tour
Seraph Brass -- founder Mary Elizabeth Bowden and Jean Laurenz, trumpet; Rachel Velvikis, horn; Hana Beloglavec, trombone; and Hendrix College faculty member Gretchen Renshaw James, tuba -- will perform at five Arkansas colleges and universities, some following daylong residencies, Saturday-Wednesday (except as noted, all recitals at 7:30 p.m.; admission is free):
• Saturday, Brown Chapel, Lyon College, Batesville
• 7 p.m. Sunday, Hathaway Howard Fine Arts Center, Pine Bluff (residency -- master class, 3 p.m.)
• 7 p.m. Monday, Fine Arts Center, University of Arkansas at Monticello, U.S. 425, Monticello (residency -- master class, 2:30 p.m.)
• Tuesday, Staples Auditorium, Hendrix, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway (residency -- master class, 12:10 p.m.)
• Wednesday, Witherspoon Auditorium, Arkansas Tech, Russellville.
The program for all recitals includes pieces from their first studio album on Summit Records, Asteria, including "Virgo" from Asteria, a commissioned work, by Catherine McMichael; Go by Anthony DiLorenzo; Foliations by Jan Bach; Tuttarana by Reena Esmail; Copperwave by Joan Tower; and arrangements of the "Prelude" from the Holberg Suite by Edvard Grieg; the "Rondo Alla Turca" from the Violin Concerto No. 5 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Reverie by Claude Debussy; Csardas by Vittorio Monti; Suite Espanola ("Granada," "Asturias" and "Sevilla") by Isaac Albeniz; and the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Franz Liszt.
Jonesboro musical
Jonesboro's Foundation of Arts will stage the musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame (music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, book by Peter Parnell, based on the Disney animated film and the Victor Hugo novel), 7:30 p.m. Saturday and Monday and Oct. 25-26 and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Forum Theater, 115 E. Monroe St., 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 show is "pay what you can." Call (870) 935-2726 or visit foajonesboro.org.
All Hands on Deck
The Branson-based national touring production of All Hands on Deck, based on Bob Hope and Jack Benny's 1942 USO show tour, is onstage 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Fine Arts Center, East Arkansas Community College, 1700 Newcastle Road, Forrest City, part of the college's 2018-19 Spotlight Series. Creator and Broadway veteran Jody Madaras heads a cast of singers, dancers, comics and a nine-piece big band performing 42 songs, plus a selection of classic commercials. Tickets are $39. Call (870) 633-4480, Extension 352, or visit eacc.edu.
SUNDAY
Play reading
The Old State House Museum, 300 W. Markham St., Little Rock, will host a reading of the play Helaine and the Little War by David Eshelman and songwriters Charley Sandage and Charlie Crow, 2 p.m. Sunday. The play, set during the Reconstruction-era Brooks-Baxter War, focuses on the struggles of black people in the South "for humanity, equality and justice," according to a news release. The play's creators and actors, including Eshelman, who will read the role of Col. Louis St. Cyr; Sandage who will read the role of Gov. Elisha Baxter; and actor-singers Satia Spencer and Ronald McDaniel, will take part in a post-reading reception and question-and-answer session. Support comes from the Arkansas Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities, in partnership with the Department of Arkansas Heritage, Arkansas Tech University, the Arkansas State House Society and the Old State House Museum Associates. Tickets are $15. Call (501) 324-9685, email tanya.canada@arkansas.gov or visit oldstatehouse.com.
TICKETS
Yoakam at Verizon
Tickets -- $49.75, $59.75 and $89.75 (plus service charges) -- go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for a concert by country singer Dwight Yoakam, 8 p.m. Feb. 17 in the The Theater @ Verizon Arena in North Little Rock. Call (800) 745-3000 or visit Ticketmaster.com.
Weekend on 10/18/2018