MUSIC
Pianist Zee Zee solos in Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Arkansas Symphony and guest conductor Joseph Young in a pair of Masterworks concerts, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday at Little Rock’s Robinson Center Performance Hall, 426 W. Markham St. at Broadway. The program also includes Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Ballade in a minor and William Dawson’s “Negro Folk Symphony.”
Zee Zee, the second of this season’s ASO Artists of Distinction, sticks around for a few days to join the orchestra’s Rockefeller Quartet for the Piano Quintet by Amy Beach at a River Rhapsodies chamber concert, 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Arkansas Symphony’s new Stella Boyle Smith Music Center, 1101 E. Third St., in Little Rock’s East Village. (501) 666-1761, Ext. 1: arkansassymphony.org
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, on their “When It Shines” farewell tour, perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the University of Arkansas-Pulaski TC Charts Theater, 3000 W. Scenic Drive, North Little Rock. uaptc.edu/charts.
The Listeso String Quartet performs “Vivaldi’s Four Seasons by Candlelight,” 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the Albert Pike Masonic Center, 712 Scott St., Little Rock. The program centers on all four op.8 violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi — “Spring,” “Summer,” “Autumn” and “Winter” — plus music by Jules Massenet, Max Richter and Astor Piazzolla. You must be 8 or older to attend, and anyone under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. feverup.com/m/269628.
The Sympatico Percussion Group, a touring ensemble, performs rudimental drumming, ragtime xylophone, pop transcriptions and original compositions at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall here at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave. (501) 916-3291.
Also at UA Little Rock this weekend, nearly 30 singers from around the country — from as close as Paragould and as far away as Canandaigua, N.Y. — will converge at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall at for the Metropolitan Opera Arkansas District Laffont Competition, a talent identification program for potential rising opera stars. Winners proceed to the Midwest regional competition in St. Louis on Feb. 8 and potentially to semi final (March 9) and final (March 16) rounds on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. It’s free to come and listen. facebook.com/armetoperaauditions.
And speaking of the Metropolitan Opera, its production of Giuseppe Verdi’s “Aida” is “Live in HD” on the big screen, 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the Movie Tavern, 11300 Bass Pro Parkway, Little Rock. Soprano Angel Blue sings the title role, with tenor Piotr Beczała as the soldier Radamès. metopera.org/season/in-cinemas/theater-finder.
THEATER
The Weekend Theater, 1001 W. Seventh St. at Chester Street, Little Rock, opens “How Black Mothers Say I Love You” by Trey Anthony, in which a hard-working woman (Michelle Young Hobbs) who had left her two young daughters in Jamaica for six years to create a better life for them in America, now, 30 years later, is relying on church and her nearby dutiful daughter to face a health crisis. Curtain times are 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Jan. 31-Feb. 1 and 2:30 p.m. Sunday and Feb. 2. Tickets are $20, $18 for students, senior citizens and military. Visit centralarkansastickets.com/organizations/the-weekend-theater.
The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Children’s Theatre continues the run of its world-premiere production, “An Unlikely Hero” by Emilio Rodriguez, 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the museum, 501 E. Ninth St., Little Rock. Jordan is a regular kid trying to find his way at Haven High, the hero school that helps youngsters unlock their superpowers. Will his love of comic books finally set him on the path to self-discovery? And surrounded by a school full of superheroes in the making, will he find a way to fit in? In a world of heroes and villains, finding your way is trickier than it seems. It’s a joint project with St. Louis’ Metro Theater Company and Bentonville-based Trike Theatre. Director Fergie L. Philippe, who played Hercules Mulligan and James Madison in “Hamilton” on Broadway and on tour, cut his early acting teeth in productions a decade ago at the Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre in Conway. events.arkmfa.org.
And Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, continues its run of “Ripcord” by David Lindsay-Abaire. Two unlikely roommates in a senior living facility agree to a bet that starts as a series of pranks but escalates into a dangerous game of one-upsmanship. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 12:45 and 6:45 p.m. Sunday through Feb. 1. The buffet opens 90 minutes before curtain time. (501) 562-3131; murrysdp.com.
ART AND EXHIBITS
“Lighter than the childhood home,” items by German artist Iris Eichenberg that “explore identity, memory and personal stories through 2D and 3D sculpture and works in metal, fiber and wood,” is on display through March 9 in the Brad Cushman Gallery in the Windgate Center of Art + Design here at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday. Admission is free. (501) 916-5117.
“3D,” works by sculptor and Hendrix College faculty member Andy Huss, is on display through Feb. 7 at the Argenta Library, 420 Main St., North Little Rock. Library hours are 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday. Admission is free. (501) 687-1061; NLRlibrary.org.
The Arkansas Arts Council’s 2025 Small Works on Paper is on display through Feb. 16 at UA Little Rock’s Windgate Center of Art + Design, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. A reception, 5-7 p.m. Jan. 30, will feature presentations by the 35 Arkansas artists whose 40 pieces, no larger than 18-by-24 inches, are part of the exhibition. Refreshments will be served. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, 2-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission to the reception and the gallery is free.
“Where Art & Words Entwine,” a multi-disciplinary exhibit featuring paintings by Lucy Towbin, poetry by Paula Martin and prose by Anne Gordon Perry, is up through through Saturday Jan. 25 at Boswell Mourot Fine Art, 1501 S, Main St., Little Rock. , 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday. (501) 454-6969; boswellmourotfineart@gmail.com.
And “Commanding the Screen: The American Presidency in Film and Television,” continues to offer a look at material from more than 30 movies and television shows portraying fictional and real-life U.S. presidents, through March 23 at the Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. clintonpresidentialcenter.org/exhibits.
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