FUN
Area restaurants and vendors will compete for People’s Choice and Golden Wing awards at the all-you-can-eat chicken-wing extravaganza Wingstock, noon-2 p.m. Saturday at North Little Rock’s Simmons Bank Arena. A variety of domestic and craft A complete list of participating restaurants and vendors is available at tinyurl.com/3bp8d7hz.
The Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave., is offering free admission in honor of former President Bill Clinton’s 79th birthday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday. clintonfoundation.org.
MUSIC
The North Little Rock Community Concert Band performs “Sounds of the British Isles,” 3 p.m. Sunday at the Patrick Henry Hays Center, 401 W. Pershing Blvd., North Little Rock. The program includes Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “English Folk Song Suite,” “Irish Tune From County Derry” (aka “Danny Boy”) by Percy Grainger and Kenneth J. Alford’s “Colonel Bogey” March. (501) 920-2539; nlrcommunityband.com.
THEATER
New this week:
Eight longtime friends drink, eat, reminisce, gossip, complain about their husbands and occasionally remember to play another round of Bunco in “The Bunco Squad” by Jim Hesselman, onstage at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock, 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. (501) 562-3131 or visit murrysdp.com.
Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived — the six royal wives of Henry VIII turned pop icons are onstage for for “SIX: Teen Edition” at the Argenta Contemporary Theater, 405 Main St., North Little Rock, 7:30 p.m. today and Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. argentacontemporarytheatre.org.
Continuing:
The Arkansas Repertory Theatre, 601 Main St., Little Rock, closes out its run of “The Amen Corner,” a play with music by James Baldwin, 7 p.m. today 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. A different area choral group fills in the role of the “Guest Choir from Philadelphia at each performance. (501) 378-0405; TheRep.org.
Also closing this weekend: Actors Theatre of Little Rock’s production of “West Side Story,” 7:30 p.m. today and Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Quapaw Quarter United Methodist Church, 1601 Louisiana St., Little Rock. actorstheatrelr.org.
And Benton’s Young Players also closing out their run of “Disney’s Newsies,”, 7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday at the Royal Theatre, 111 S. Market St., Benton. The show is based on the real-life New York newsboys strike of 1899. onthestage.tickets/the-royal-theatre.
ART AND EXHIBITS
New this week
“Chicken Houses of Arkansas,” a series of large pastels by Eureka Springs artist Cynthia Kresse, goes on display with a 6-9 p.m. reception Saturday at Boswell Mourot Fine Art, 1501 Main St., Little Rock. Gallery hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday and by appointment through Sept. 6. Admission to the reception and gallery is free. Call (501) 454-6969 or visit boswellmourotfineart.com.
The Arkansas League of Artists’ Opportunity Show opens with a 5-7 p.m. reception Friday at the William F. Laman Public Library, 2801 Orange St., North Little Rock. The exhibition is up through Sept. 30 during regular library hours: 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Friday-Saturday. (501) 758-1720 or visit NLRlibrary.org.
“Connected Through Color: Parts of a Whole,” explorations of how color can be reimagined and transformed across several media, including animation, digital illustration and collage, by Adrianna Kimble-Ray, opens with a 5-8 p.m. Argenta Art District Third Friday Art Walk reception Friday at the Argenta Library Gallery, 420 Main St., North Little Rock. It’s on display through Sept. 5. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday. (501) 687-1061 or visit NLRlibrary.org.
Also opening with a 5-8 p.m. Argenta Art District Third Friday Art Walk reception Friday: “Creatures of Play,” an exhibition of mixed-media works by Central Arkansas artist Carol McCreight at the Innovation Hub Gallery, 204 E. Fourth St., North Little Rock. The show stays up through Sept. 26, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday; 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday; 10 a.m.-2 p.m. the third Saturday of each month. (501) 907-6570; hub.nlrlibrary.org.
CONTINUING
“Unseen Forces,” oil paintings by Bryant High School art teacher Amber Cardinale, go on display with a 5-7:30 p.m. reception Thursday at Thea Foundation’s gallery, 401 Main St. in North Little Rock’s Argenta Arts District, up through Aug. 28. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 5-8 p.m. during Argenta’s Third Friday Art Walk (Aug. 15). theafoundation.org.
“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.
“Edwin Brewer, A Retrospective of His Art,” landscape and still-life paintings in oils and watercolors by the Little Rock native (1927-2002), on display through Oct. 18 at Cantrell Gallery, 8202 Cantrell Road, Little Rock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m Tuesday-Saturday. (501) 224-1335; cantrellgallery.com.
“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.
“Small Works on Paper: From the Permanent Collection,” 40 pieces from the Arkansas Arts Council’s 2006-2023 annual “Small Works on Paper” touring exhibitions, on display through Sept. 21 at the Historic Arkansas Museum, 200 E. Third St., Little Rock, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. (501) 324-9351.
And “Enid Collins Handbags: Thinking Outside the Bejeweled Box,” a collection of handbags by Texas designer Enid Collins, is on display through Sept. 28 at ESSE Museum and Store, 1510 Main St., Little Rock. (501) 916-9022; essepursemuseum.com.
