FUN
The Arkansas Paranormal Expo returns to the grounds of the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, 503 E. Ninth St., Little Rock, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, including an inaugural Bigfoot Calling Contest, at 2 p.m. Saturday, a raffle and silent auction, a Ghost Hunt inside the museum (considered one of the state’s most haunted buildings); speakers and psychic readings. (501) 376-4602; arkansasparanormalexpo.com.
MUSIC
Singer-saxophonist Camille Thurman, the first woman to land a permanent spot with Wynton Marsalis’s Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and the Darrell Green Quartet perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, 501 E. Ninth St. (501) 372-4000; arkmfa.org.
The Close Up! Steinway Salon Chamber Series season opens with a program titled “Elegy,” including trios by Josef Suk, Anton Arensky and Carl Maria von Weber, 3 p.m. Sunday at Steinway Gallery Little Rock, 657 Arkansas 365, Mayflower. (501) 940-1562; steinwaylr.com/close-up.
The Conway Symphony and conductor Israel Getzov open the orchestra’s 41st season with a program titled “Voices of Liberty,” 4 p.m. Sunday in the University of Central Arkansas’ Windgate Center for Fine and Performing Arts, 2150 Bruce St. at Donaghey Avenue, Conway. Clarinetist Tyus Diaz, winner of the UCA Concerto Competition in January, solos in the Clarinet Concerto by Katherine Hoover; the program also includes the the “William Tell” Overture by Giacchino Rossini and the Symphony No. 2 by Jean Sibelius. ci.ovationtix.com/36631/production/1247970.
THEATER
Out-of-work actor Daniel Hillard, desperate to stay in the lives of his three kids in wake of a messy divorce, creates an alter ego — kindly Scottish nanny Euphegenia Doubtfire, now with singing and dancing in the musical stage version of “Mrs. Doubtfire,” 7:30 p.m. Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 1 p.m. Sunday at Little Rock’s Robinson Center Performance Hall, 426 W. Markham St. at Broadway. (501) 244-8800; CelebrityAttractions.com; Ticketmaster.com.
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Theatre opens its season with “Peter and the Starcatcher” by Rick Elice, 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 2:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in University Theater, Center for Performing Arts, at UA Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave. tix.com/ticket-sales/ualrtheatre/5517.
Actors Theatre of Little Rock still doing the Time Warp again, continuing its run of “The Rocky Horror Show,” 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday through Oct. 31 with an additional midnight show this Sunday Oct. 26 at Little Rock’s Quapaw Quarter United Methodist Church, 1601 Louisiana St. actorstheatrelr.org/tickets.
And Mel Brooks’ musical “Young Frankenstein” continues onstage through Nov. 8 at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday (but 12:30 p.m. Wednesday matinee only Oct. 22), 12:45 and 6:30 p.m. Sunday. Buffet opens 90 minutes before curtain. (501) 562-3131; murrysdp.com.
ART AND EXHIBITS
“Our Pale Blue Dot,” recent paintings by Benton artist Kae Barron inspired by “the famous ‘Pale Blue Dot’ photo of Earth from space (taken by Voyager spacecraft, as it exited the solar system in 1990),” goes on display with a 6-8 p.m. reception Friday at Cantrell Gallery, 8202 Cantrell Road, Little Rock. It’s remains up through Jan. 17, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday or by appointment. Admission to the reception and the gallery is free. Call (501) 224-1335 or visit cantrellgallery.com.
Floral designer to the British Royal Family Shane Connolly is making a flying two-day visit this weekend to Little Rock and the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, 501 E. Ninth St., including a cocktail reception, 5-7 p.m. Friday, featuring a series of arrangements created by local floral designers, and a demonstration floral arrangement “inspired by the natural beauty of Arkansas,” 10:30 a.m.-noon Saturday in the museum’s Amerine/Calhoun Glass Box. A breakfast reception starts at 10 a.m. in the atrium. events.arkmfa.org.
CONTINUING:
At the ESSE Purse Museum & Store, 1510 Main St., Little Rock, “Henry and Nolan,” photographs by Rita Henry and Nancy Nolan along with their collections of cameras, photography tools and materials, as well as a special art installation, on display through Feb. 1. (501) 916-9022.
“GhosArt: Ye Art Gods,” works in acrylics, oils, graphite, charcoal, watercolor pencils, colored pencils and ink alongside recorded music by Elvin Bishop, aka Poppa Ghos, is on display at the William F. Laman Public Library, 2801 Orange St., North Little Rock. The exhibition is up through Nov, 29 with a 5-7 p.m. reception this Friday. (501) 758-1720; NLRlibrary.org.
“S P A C I O U S,” works by painter, photographer and multidisciplinary artist Andrea Kielpinski, opens with an Argenta Third Friday Art Walk reception, 5-8 p.m. Friday at the Argenta Library Gallery, 420 Main St., North Little Rock. It’s up through Nov. 7, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday. (501) 687-1061; NLRlibrary.org.
On display through Oct. 31 at the Innovation Hub, 204 E. Fourth St., North Little Rock, “Hey Y’all! Look at My Legs!”, leg-themed ceramics by Gigi Gabriel, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday. (501) 907-6570; Hub.NLRlibrary.org.
At the Windgate Center of Art and Design at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 5617 W. 28th St., Little Rock: “Lauren DiCioccio: Soft Skills,” fiber-art sculpture and mixed media by DiCioccio, in the Maners Pappas Gallery, and the 2025 Annual Student Competitive exhibition, up through Nov. 7 in the Brad Cushman Gallery. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday. (501) 916-5103.
On display through Oct. 31 at Gallery 26, 2601 Kavanaugh Blvd., Little Rock: “Between Cities: Altheimer, Delight, Eudora, Marked Tree,” photographs of secondary South Arkansas cities by Darrell Adams, Jessica Maxwell, Rita Henry and Rachel Worthen, 10 a.m-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. (501) 664-8996; gallery26.com
“Under A Restless Sky,” a new site-specific installation by Boston-based artist Nathalie Miebach, on display through April 4 in the Jackson T. Stephens Gallery of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, 501 E. Ninth St., Little Rock. The three-dimensional art installation, created with paint, paper, wood, ropes and other materials that explores how various species — birds and humans — move and adapt due to environmental and climate changes, (501) 372-4000; arkmfa.org.
And “Portraits From a Presidency,” the exhibition of more than 50 paintings, sculptures, engravings and photographic portraits of members of the Clinton family, up through Dec. 7 at the Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. clintonpresidentialcenter.org/exhibits.