THEATER
Musical ‘Mean Girls’
Stage 13 is staging “Mean Girls the Musical” (music by Jeff Richmond, lyrics by Nell Benjamin, book by Tina Fey adapted from her screenplay for the 2004 film), 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Jan. 25 at Wildwood Park for the Arts, 20919 Denny Road, Little Rock. Sascha Bass plays Cady Heron, a previously-home-schooled teenager navigating the wild social jungle of suburban high school. Tickets are $35-$45. Visit stage13.org.
Thomas as Twain
Emmy Award-winning actor Richard Thomas portrays American writer and humorist Mark Twain in the one-man show “Mark Twain Tonight!,” 8 p.m. Friday at Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St. Thomas is the only actor authorized to perform the play since the 2021 death of actor Hal Holbrook, who created and performed the show. Tickets are $44.85-$86.25 (prices subject to change). Call (479) 443-5600 or visit waltonartscenter.org.
FILM
‘Bob Hope and WWII’
The MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, 503 E. Ninth St., Little Rock, screens the documentary “Miles, Morale, and Memories: Bob Hope and World War II,” 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. The hourlong film covers President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s request of Hollywood’s top radio and movie stars to hold a microphone instead of a gun during World War II, and the journey of over 80,000 miles Bob Hope and his troupe of performers took to entertain the troops, often near the front lines in Europe and the Pacific in an effort to bring a touch of home to the war. Admission is free. Call (501) 376-4602.
ON THE PODIUM
Architecture lecture
Brandon Bibby, a project architect with WER Architects/Planners based in Little Rock, will give a talk titled “The Darker Vernacular of American Architecture,” 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s Stella Boyle Smith Music Center, 1101 E. Third St. in Little Rock’s East Village. Bibby will explore “the forgotten acts of preservation that have long existed in the spatial vernaculars of Black communities across the Americas,” according to a news release. It’s part of the Architecture and Design Network’s June Freeman Lecture Series. A 5:30 reception will precede the lecture. Admission is free. Visit facebook.com/ArchDesignNetworkAR.
Eric E. Harrison covers classical music, theater and restaurants for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. He joined the then-Arkansas Democrat on the copy desk in June 1977 and served for 17 years (including the entirety of the newspaper war) as the paper’s entertainment editor before taking on his current role as features reporter. He is also host of the weekly classical music show “Major and Minor Masterpieces” on public radio station KLRE-FM, 90.5.
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