THEATER<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Bunco busters<\/strong><\/p>\n Eight longtime friends drink, eat, reminisce, gossip, complain about their husbands and occasionally remember to play another round of Bunco in\u00a0\u201cThe Bunco Squad\u201d<\/strong> by Jim Hesselman, opening with a 12:30 p.m. preview matinee Wednesday at Murry\u2019s Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock. The show runs 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday (but 12:30 p.m. Wednesday matinees only Aug. 20 and 27), 12:45 and 6:45 p.m. Sunday through Sept. 6. The buffet opens 90 minutes before curtain. Tickets are $43-$47, $33 for children 15 and younger, and for show-only. Call (501) 562-3131 or visit murrysdp.com.<\/p>\n \u2018SIX\u2019-teen<\/strong><\/p>\n Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived \u2014 the six royal wives of Henry VIII turned pop icons assemble on the stage of the Argenta Contemporary Theater, 405 Main St., North Little Rock, for \u201cSIX: Teen Edition,\u201d<\/strong> a full-length adaptation of Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss\u2019 show modified for performance by teenage actors for family audiences. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m.<\/p>\n The cast, all members of the theater\u2019s Pre-Professional Company: Sascha Bass as Catherine of Aragon, Berkeley Courtney-Moore as Anne Boleyn, Blakely White as Katherine Howard, Caroline Pledger as Jane Seymour, Karah Collins as Anne of Cleves and Jenna Thaxton as Catherine Parr. \u201cSwings\u201d Mallory Lafferty, Eli Atkins, Taylor Moore and Nyla Newton will be performing for the Saturday matinee.<\/p>\n Tickets are $38-$88. Visit argentacontemporarytheatre.org.<\/p>\n ETC.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Medium Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n Theresa Caputo, from TLC\u2019s \u201cLong Island Medium,\u201d<\/strong> will share personal stories, explain how her \u201cgift\u201d works, deliver healing messages to audience members and give grieving people comfort in \u201cTheresa Caputo Live! The Experience,\u201d 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Little Rock\u2019s Robinson Center Performance Hall, 426 W. Markham St. Tickets are $71-$102 (plus service charges) via Ticketmaster.com. Buying a ticket does not guarantee a reading.<\/p>\n Virtual preservation<\/strong><\/p>\n Robyn Lane and Rachel Tucci, faculty members at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville will give a virtual talk at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, part of Preserve Arkansas\u2019 \u201cWomen in Preservation\u201d<\/strong> virtual speaker series. \u201cAdmission\u201d is free. Register to attend via Zoom at tinyurl.com\/25h335hf; watch the talk live on YouTube at tinyurl.com\/2p9pebzc.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n ASUMH series<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cResurrection: A Journey Tribute\u201d kicks off the 2025-26 Performing Arts Series at Arkansas State University-Mountain Home, 7 p.m. Sept. 13 in the Coulter Performing Arts Center at the Vada Sheid Community Development Center at ASUMH, 1600 S. College St., Mountain Home. Tickets are $40, $20 for students.<\/p>\n The rest of the lineup (except as noted, all shows, 7 p.m. at The Sheid; tickets are $40, $20 for students):<\/p>\n \u25fc\ufe0f Sept. 23: Reed Timmer, PhD. \u2014 Extreme Meteorologist, 6 p.m. Free, part of the university\u2019s Gaston Lecture Series. Timmer is the principal on the Discovery Channel\u2019s \u201cStorm Chasers.\u201d<\/p>\n \u25fc\ufe0f Oct. 8: Grammy-nominated Louisiana bluesman Tab Benoit<\/p>\n \u25fc\ufe0f Nov. 9: Step Afrika!, fusing Black American percussive dance, African traditions and contemporary art<\/p>\n \u25fc\ufe0f Dec. 2: \u201cWho Brought the Humbug,\u201d musical featuring singers, dancers and beatboxers. $45, $22.50<\/p>\n \u25fc\ufe0f April 9: Voctave, 11-member vocal group<\/p>\n \u25fc\ufe0f April 16: Country singer Wilson Fairchild. 6 p.m.; free.<\/p>\n Season and individual event tickets will be available starting Wednesday. Call (870) 508-6280 or visit thesheid.com.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Viennese residency<\/strong><\/p>\n Lorissa Mason, director of choral studies at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, will be a featured conductor in a residency with MidAm International, a European gathering of American choral groups June 14-21 in Vienna.<\/p>\n As part of the residency, Mason will conduct \u201cDixit Dominus\u201d by 18th-century composer Marianna Martines, a contemporary of Mozart and Haydn, June 17 with the Symphonischesorchester Wien and soloists at Vienna\u2019s Minoritenkirche. The chorus will also include the Arkansas Chamber Singers, for which Mason is the music director, and an Arkansas high school choir. UALR students, alumni, faculty and staff and community members can also take part as singers (in the context of Mason-led Ozark Festival Singers) or as traveling companions to singers. Contact Mason at [email\u00a0protected]<\/a>.<\/p>\n The weeklong session includes includes guided tours of Vienna and Salzburg, visits to Mozart\u2019s birthplace, Beethoven\u2019s home, Sch\u00f6nbrunn Palace and St. Stephen\u2019s Cathedral. MidAm International, a division of MidAmerica Productions, has brought Mason in twice to conduct twice in New York\u2019s Carnegie Hall.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nwaonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THEATER Bunco busters Eight longtime friends drink, eat, reminisce, gossip, complain about their husbands and occasionally remember to play another round of Bunco in\u00a0\u201cThe Bunco Squad\u201d by Jim Hesselman, opening with a 12:30 p.m. preview matinee Wednesday at Murry\u2019s Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock. 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