FUN
Comedian/actor DL Hughley headlines a show at 7 p.m. Sunday at Little Rock’s Robinson Center Performance Hall, 426 W. Markham St. at Broadway. Doors open at 6. (501) 244-8800 or ticketmaster.com. Hughley starred in and produced a namesake television show, “The Hughleys,” on ABC and UPN from 1998 to 2002.
The Silver Unit of Cirque Italia presents a story of a farm boy who has been swept away by a tornado and who lands in the heart of the city’s chaos, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Friday; 1:30, 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 1:30 and 4:30 p.m. Sunday and 7:30 p.m. Monday — that’s Labor Day — at Pine Bluff’s Hestand Stadium, 420 N. Blake St.. The production involves clowns and trampoline, fire, quick change, rope, juggling, hand-to-hand, skating and swing acts. (941) 704-8572 or cirqueitalia.com/tickets.
The Brewery Collectibles Club of America holds its 53rd CANvention, billed as the world’s largest beer cans-and-brewery collectibles show, noon-5 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday in the Governors Hall of the Statehouse Convention Center and the Marriott Hotel, Markham and Main streets, Little Rock. It includes beer cans dating to 1935, beer advertising (including neon, light-up and metal signs, tap handles, mugs, steins and trays); and beer-related items and collectibles from craft breweries around the state and other breweries and beer brands from around the world. bcca.com.
MUSIC
In live music, country singer and Fort Smith native JD Clayton kicks off a national tour at 8:30 p.m. Friday at Little Rock’s White Water Tavern, 2500 W. Seventh St. (501) 375-8400; whitewatertavern.com
THEATER
In live theater this week, an unfortunate tendency toward split personalities interferes with a teenage tomboy’s desperate desire to be part of the surf crowd on Malibu Beach in 1962 in “Psycho Beach Party” by Charles Busch, onstage at The Weekend Theater, 1001 W. Seventh St. at Chester Street, Little Rock, 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, through Sept. 15. CentralArkansasTickets.com.
And Robert Harling’s “Steel Magnolias” continues onstage through Sept. 17 at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday (12:30 p.m. matinees only on Wednesdays Aug. 28 and Sept. 4) and 12:45 and 6:45 p.m. Sunday. The buffet opens 90 minutes before curtain time. Call (501) 562-3131 or visit murrysdp.com.
And Fayetteville’s TheatreSquared, 477 W. Spring St., continues its production of “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, through Sept. 15. (479) 777-7477; theatre2.org/raisin-in-the-sun.
EXHIBIT
And “Commanding the Screen: The American Presidency in Film and Television,” featuring original costumes, set pieces, props, design sketches, scripts and other memorabilia from more than 30 movies and television shows portraying fictional and real-life presidents of the United States, remains up through March 23 at the Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. clintonpresidentialcenter.org/exhibits.
