MUSIC
Men’s Chorus Christmas
The River City Men’s Chorus offers its annual holiday concert, “Holiday! 2025,” 3 p.m. Sunday and 7 p.m. Monday and Dec. 4 at St. James United Methodist Church, 321 Pleasant Valley Drive, Little Rock. Admission is free. Arrive early, as seating and parking tend to fill up. Call (501) 377-1080.
David Glaze conducts the program: two movements from “Bells! A Holiday Choral Suite” — “Winter Chimes” (words and music by Gustav Holst) and “Silver Bells” (words and music by Jay Livingston & Ray Evans); “A Christmas Carol” by Leslie Bricusse; “Mistletoe and Holly” by Frank Sinatra, Dok Stanford & Henry Sanicola; “Deck the Hall,” traditional Welsh carol; “We Toast the Days” by Linda Kachelmeier; “Auld Lang Syne,” words by Robert Burns; “Carols at the Piano,” a Glaze piano solo; “Gloria” by John Leavitt; “For Unto Us a Child is Born” and “Hallelujah” from “Messiah” by George Frideric Handel; “The Ground” by Ola Gjeilo; “It Came upon the Midnight Clear,” words by Edmund H. Sears, music by Richard S. Willia; “O Holy Night,” words by J. S. Dwight, music by Adolphe Adam; “I Will Light Candles this Christmas,” words by Howard Thurman, music by Kim André Arnesen; and the 18th century French carol “Angels We Have Heard on High.”
Multinational sopranos
Sopranos from seven different countries join the Vienna Light Orchestra on its Christmas Tour 2025, 3 and 7 p.m. Tuesday at Little Rock’s Robinson Center Performance Hall, 426 W. Markham St., for a program that includes “White Christmas,” “Carol of the Bells,” “Grown-Up Christmas List,” “O Holy Night” and “Ave Maria.” Tickets are $43-$145; call (501) 244-8800 or visit Ticketmaster.com.
CRAFTS
Folk Center craft show
Gift-shop for unique, handcrafted items at the Ozark Holidays Craft Show, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday at the Ozark Folk Center State Park Craft Village, 1302 Park Ave., Mountain View. Artisans — more than two dozen resident master craftspeople in a variety of fine and functional crafts — will set up in their workshops with “guest crafters” distributed throughout the Craft Village. Shops include the Village Apothecary, selling soaps, lotions, salves and more; Widmer’s Jewelry Shop; Leather Works; Turkey Creek Creations’ Stained Glass; Scrap Happy Quilting; Perry/Munn Pottery; Stonethrower Forge Handmade Knives; Copper Colorists Flame Painted Copper; the Old Time Print Shop; Rock, Paper, Scissors; Ozark Iron Blacksmithing; Woodcarving & Whittling; and Fiber Arts. Admission is free. Visit OzarkFolkCenter.com.
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Misfit Maker Market
The Misfit Maker Market, a group of local artists, makers and creators, will host its inaugural Black Friday event, described in a news release as “an alternative to holiday shopping at big box stores and with online giants,” 1-6 p.m. Friday at Fassler Hall, 311 E. Capitol Ave., Little Rock. The market features original art, vintage finds, handmade jewelry “and other unique offerings from individual Arkansans.” The event will also include a 4-6 p.m. drag show. Admission is free; food and beverages can be purchased from Fassler Hall, which will also be collecting new toys to hand out to local families. (Those in need this Christmas should reach out via email: [email protected].)
TICKETS
3 comedy shows
◼️ Satirist, musician and comedian “Weird Al” Yankovic brings his 90-city arena and amphitheater “Bigger & Weirder” tour back to Arkansas, with “special guest” Puddles Pity Party, 8 p.m. June 20 at North Little Rock’s Simmons Bank Arena. Tickets — $66.15-$211.05 — are on sale via Ticketmaster.com. Yankovic drew more than 500,000 fans to 75 shows across 67 cities in 2025, including an Aug. 3 sellout at the Walmart AMP in Rogers. The show will feature Yankovic’s hits and fan favorites, with a giant video wall, multiple costume changes and an eight-piece ensemble that includes his original band. “We did 75 shows this year, and the fans weren’t sick of us yet,” Yankovic explains, “so we’re just going to keep on touring until they are!”
◼️ Writer, comedian and actor John Mulaney, on his “Mister Whatever” tour, performs at 7 p.m. Feb. 21 at North Little Rock’s Simmons Bank Arena. Tickets — $104.50-$364.60 with higher-price VIP packages — are on sale via Ticketmaster.com. Mulaney is the writer, host and executive producer of a Netflix talk show, “Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney,” which features monologues, guests, pretaped sketches and musical segments and more. It’s the continuation of “Everybody’s in LA,” a six-night live comedy series that explored Los Angeles during the Netflix Is A Joke Festival in 2024.
In December 2024, Mulaney starred on Broadway in the play “All In: Comedy About Love,” part of a cast that included Fred Armisen, Richard Kind and Renee Elise Goldsberry. And he’s part of the cast — playing Trip Hawkins — of the upcoming Amazon MGM Studios film “Madden,” a biopic about legendary pro football coach and TV commentator John Madden, directed by David O. Russell.
◼️ Comedian and actor Gary Owen is bringing his “No Hard Feelings” tour to Little Rock’s Robinson Center, 426 W. Markham St. at Broadway, 8 p.m. March 12. Tickets — $34-$68 plus fees — are on sale via Ticketmaster.com. In addition to his stand-up appearances, Owen has feature-film credits including “Back on the Strip” with Tiffany Haddish; “Meet the Blacks” and its sequel, “The House Next Door”; “Think Like a Man” and its sequel, “Think Like a Man Too”; “Ride Along” with Ice Cube and Kevin Hart; “Little Man,” opposite the Wayans Brothers; and “Daddy Day Care” with Eddie Murphy. On TV, he starred in his own BET series “The Gary Owen Show” and co-hosted TruTV’s sketch series “Upload with Shaquille O’Neal.” And he appeared in the recurring role of Zach the barber on TBS’ “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne.”
Cash couple
Tickets — $29.50 and $38.50 — are on sale for a touring company production of “A Man Named Cash,” subtitled “The Premier Tribute to the Music and Lives of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash,” 7:30 p.m. March 27 at Little Rock’s Robinson Center Performance Hall, 426 W. Markham St. at Broadway. Eric Hofmanis, personally appointed by John Carter Cash and The Cash Estate as lead singer for their 100-plus city “Johnny Cash The Official Concert Experience” tour, plays Johnny Cash, with Megan Houde as June Carter. The band also includes lead guitarist Scotty Mac, an inductee into the Blues Hall of Fame. Call (501) 244-8800 or visit CelebrityAttractions.com or Ticketmaster.com.
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