{"id":2239219,"date":"2026-01-18T00:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T00:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2239219"},"modified":"2026-01-18T00:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T00:04:11","slug":"entertainment-mean-girls-mark-twain-on-stages-in-lr-fayetteville-the-arkansas-democrat-gazette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/entertainment-mean-girls-mark-twain-on-stages-in-lr-fayetteville-the-arkansas-democrat-gazette\/","title":{"rendered":"ENTERTAINMENT: \u2018Mean Girls,\u2019 \u2018Mark Twain\u2019 on stages in LR, Fayetteville | The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"zephr-tfp-rescue\" id=\"zephr-arkonline\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>                <!-- Audio Player Container --><\/p>\n<div id=\"audioPlayer\" style=\"display: none;\"><figcaption class=\"player-label\">Let us read it for you. Listen now.<\/figcaption><audio id=\"audio\" controls=\"\" controlslist=\"nodownload\" oncontextmenu=\"return false;\"><br \/>\n                Your browser does not support the audio element.<br \/>\n            <\/audio>\n        <\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><u>THEATER<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Musical &#8216;Mean Girls&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stage 13 is staging &#8220;Mean Girls the Musical&#8221; (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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thomas as Twain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Emmy Award-winning actor Richard Thomas portrays American writer and humorist Mark Twain in the one-man show &#8220;Mark Twain Tonight!,&#8221; 8 p.m. Friday at Fayetteville&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fr-img-space-wrap\"><span class=\"fr-img-caption article-photo fr-fic fr-dii\" style=\"width: 552px;\"><span class=\"fr-img-wrap\"><span class=\"fr-inner\"><figcaption>Bob Hope entertains troops while also broadcasting over the radio in 1943. (Bob Hope Collection\/Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress)<\/figcaption><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"fr-img-space-wrap2\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><u>FILM<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Bob Hope and WWII&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, 503 E. Ninth St., Little Rock, screens the documentary &#8220;Miles, Morale, and Memories: Bob Hope and World War II,&#8221; 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. The hourlong film covers President Franklin D. Roosevelt&#8217;s request of Hollywood&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><u>ON THE PODIUM<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Architecture lecture<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brandon Bibby, a project architect with WER Architects\/Planners based in Little Rock, will give a talk titled &#8220;The Darker Vernacular of American Architecture,&#8221; 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra&#8217;s Stella Boyle Smith Music Center, 1101 E. Third St. in Little Rock&#8217;s East Village. Bibby will explore &#8220;the forgotten acts of preservation that have long existed in the spatial vernaculars of Black communities across the Americas,&#8221; according to a news release. It&#8217;s part of the Architecture and Design Network&#8217;s June Freeman Lecture Series. A 5:30 reception will precede the lecture. Admission is free. Visit facebook.com\/ArchDesignNetworkAR.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <!--Author Byline Cards--><\/p>\n<div class=\"byline-card\">\n<div class=\"byline-text\">\n<h3 class=\"author\">\n<p>                        <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arkansasonline.com\/staff\/eric-harrison\">Eric E. Harrison<\/a><\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p class=\"author-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"staffer__email\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arkansasonline.com\/news\/2026\/jan\/17\/entertainment-mean-girls-mark-twain-on-stages-in\/mailto:eharrison@adgnewsroom.com\">eharrison@adgnewsroom.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"byline-img\">\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wehco.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com\/img\/staff\/2025\/Eric_E._Harrison_t261.png?668d5901d306618869f83cdab22b5a51c2b5a794\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>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&#8217;s entertainment editor before taking on his current role as features reporter. He is also host of the weekly classical music show &#8220;Major and Minor Masterpieces&#8221; on public radio station KLRE-FM, 90.5.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p><h2 class=\"\">Comments<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.arkansasonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. 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