Elsewhere in entertainment, events and the arts:
TODAY
Medea by Euripides
The University of Central Arkansas Theatre Program will stage a deconstructed modern retelling of Medea by Euripides, 7:30 p.m. today-Friday and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Black Box Theatre, Snow Fine Arts Center at UCA, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. Director Brady Ness and cast are incorporating "physical composition and movement" into a collaborative, semi-devised piece based on Eurpides' original Greek text. Seating is limited to 30 seats per performance; admission is free. Attendees are asked to arrive at least 30 minutes early. They will use the UCA film program's 360-degree camera to record a few reworked scenes, the results of which will screen at 2 p.m. Feb. 24. Call (501) 450-5092 or email melissap@uca.edu.
Retiring with Robber
Arkansas Tech University's theater department stages The Robber Bridegroom (music by Robert Waldman, book and lyrics by Alfred Uhry, adapted from a novella by Eudora Welty), 8 p.m. today-Friday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Techionery Theatre, 1502 N. El Paso Ave., Russellville. The production is the final Tech project — as it was her first — for director Ardith Morris, who retires in May after a 37-year career at the university. Tickets are $12, $8 students. Call (479) 964-0890.
FRIDAY
Wildwood Lanterns!
Visit distant lands and times, including Germany, Mexico, China, the United Kingdom (Scotland in particular), the Moon and Prohibition-era Chicago and Area 51 as you stroll through the garden pathways at Wildwood Park for the Arts, 20919 Denny Road, Little Rock, for the annual Lanterns! Festival, 6-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 6-9 p.m. Sunday. The annual deep-winter festival celebrates the first full moon of the lunar new year with entertainment, food, drink, games and more throughout the park's Butler Arboretum and inside the Lucy Lockett Cabe Festival Theatre.
Tickets in advance are $10 for adults, $5 for children 6-12, free for children 5 and younger, $2 more at the gate. Buy food and beverages with WildBucks scrip, available at four park locations. Proceeds support Wildwood programs, gardens and operations. Park across Denny Road from the park, or take a shuttle from the Courtyard at the Promenade at Chenal on Chenal Parkway (on the west side of the AMC movie theater), running from 6 p.m. each day until 30 minutes past closing. Call (501) 821-7275 or visit wildwoodpark.org/events/lanterns-2019.
SATURDAY
Met regionals
The Metropolitan Opera National Council's Midwest Regional Auditions take place at 1 p.m. Saturday in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine ArtsBuilding, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. Winners of district auditions in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, including the Jan. 26 Arkansas district winners Kelly Singer and Sydney Baedke, will vie for a chance to move on to the national round of auditions in New York; semi-finals and finals take place at the Met. Judges are Melissa Wegner, executive director of the Metropolitan Opera Auditions; Michael Egel, general and artistic director of Des Moines (Iowa) Metro Opera; and Keith Wolfe, general director of Opera Birmingham. Admission is free. Visit the Facebook events page, facebook.com/events/2065100496902812.
Imitation of Life
The Delta Cultural Center will screen the 1959 classic melodrama Imitation of Life, 2 p.m. Saturday at its Miller Annex, 223 Cherry St., Helena-West Helena, part of a film festival marking Black History Month. Admission is free. Call (870) 338-4350, email richard.spilman@arkansas.gov or visit Facebook.com/DeltaCulturalCenter or deltaculturalcenter.com.
SUNDAY
Mozart recital
University of Arkansas at Little Rock music faculty members Meredith Hicks, violin, and Naoki Hakutani, piano; and guests Katherine Williamson, violin; Tze-Ying Wu, viola; Ethan Young, cello; and Jaeyeon Park, piano, will play a program that includes includes the Piano Concerto No. 20 in d minor, K.466, and the Piano Quartet No. 2 in g minor, K.478, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at 3 p.m. Sunday in UALR's Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall. Music history professor Rolf Groesbeck will give a pre-concert lecture at 2:30. Admission is free. Call (501) 683-7230 or email nxhakutani@ualr.edu.
Band pops concert
The Natural State Brass Band will present a pops concert at 3 p.m. Sunday at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 4106 John F. Kennedy Blvd., North Little Rock. Conductor Gretchen Renshaw James' program includes the Overture to Candide by Leonard Bernstein; Chuck Mangione's "Children of Sanchez"; "A Sinatra Salute," arranged by Eric Richards; "A Disney Spectacular," arranged by Goff Richards; and a medley of "Epic Themes" by John Williams, plus arrangements of "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Under the Boardwalk." Admission is free. Call (501) 758-2576 or visit nsbb.org.
'Sun, Moon & Stars'
Pianist Nataliya Sukhina, on the faculty at Texas Tech University and a piano mentor for the Hot Springs Music Festival, will play a recital titled "Sun, Moon, and Stars," 3 p.m. Sunday at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, 199 Barcelona Road, Hot Springs Village, under the auspices of the Hot Springs/Hot Springs Village Symphony Guild. The program: Piano Sonata No. 14 in c-sharp minor, op.27, No. 2, "Moonlight," by Ludwig van Beethoven; "Clair de lune" from Suite bergamasque by Claude Debussy; two Nocturnes, op.32 No. 1 in B major and op.72 No. 1 in e minor, by Frederic Chopin; Etincelles (Sparks), op.36 No. 6, by Moritz Moszkowski; Two Poemes, op.32, by Alexander Scriabin; "January," "April: and "May" from The Seasons, op.37a, by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky; and Capriccio by Arno Babadjanian. Admission is $10. Call (501) 984-2266 or visit symphonyguild.org.
Weekend on 02/14/2019