FUN
Little Rock celebrates the six-year milestone of its River Market Entertainment District with a lively Birthday Bash, 6-8 p.m. Saturday, featuring live entertainment, menu specials and promotions from district businesses. Parking is free in the River Market garage, 500 E. Second St. at River Market Avenue. littlerock.com/river-market/play/rmed.
Tulsa’s Vintage Barbie Museum has a pop-up exhibition through Aug. 31 at Paper Hearts Bookstore, 420 E. 21st St., in Little Rock’s Pettaway neighborhood, with more than 120 vintage dolls from 1959-89, “iconic Barbie looks,” rare collector’s editions and “historically significant dolls,” noon-6 p.m. Thursday-Sunday, with additional weekend evening hours. (202) 468-5275; facebook.com/p/Vintage-Barbie-Museum-61568806623203.
The eighth Great Southern Stone Skipping Championships take place starting at 10 a.m. Saturday at Lakewood Lake No. 1 in North Little Rock with cash prizes for the top three finishers in the men’s and women’s flights (13 and older) and the youth flight (12 and younger). Judges will be volunteer military veterans with keen eyesight. Spectators can bring lawn chairs, blankets and coolers (no glass). Proceeds go to North Little Rock-based Amboy Community Food Pantry. StoneSkipping.org.
MUSIC
Old Crow Medicine Show performs at 8 p.m. today at The Hall, 721 W. Ninth St. JD Clayton is the opening act. (501) 406-1364; littlerockhall.com.
THEATER
New this weekend:
The Weeknd Theater, West Seventh and Chester streets, Little Rock, is putting on a staged reading of “Greyscale,” written and directed by Cabot High School rising senior Brooke Boyer, “Best in Show” winner for playwriting at the Arkansas State Thespian Festival, 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday. It focuses on a family that appears perfect from the outside but each of its members is wracked by anxiety in one way or another. centralarkansastickets.com/e/greyscale.
Continuing:
The Arkansas Repertory Theatre, 601 Main St., Little Rock, has extended for an additional weekend 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.
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 matinee only Aug. 27), 12:45 and 6:45 p.m. Sunday through Sept. 6. The buffet opens 90 minutes before curtain. (501) 562-3131; murrysdp.com.
ART AND EXHIBITS
CONTINUING
“Chicken Houses of Arkansas,” a series of large pastels by Eureka Springs artist Cynthia Kresse, is on display through Sept. 6 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. (501) 454-6969; boswellmourotfineart.com.
The Arkansas League of Artists’ Opportunity Show remains up through Sept. 30 at the William F. Laman Public Library, 2801 Orange St., North Little Rock, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Friday-Saturday. (501) 758-1720; 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, at the Argenta Library Gallery, 420 Main St., North Little Rock through Sept. 5. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday. (501) 687-1061; NLRlibrary.org.
“Creatures of Play,” mixed-media works by Central Arkansas artist Carol McCreight at the Innovation Hub Gallery, 204 E. Fourth St., North Little Rock, 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.
“Unseen Forces,” oil paintings by Bryant High School art teacher Amber Cardinale, on display through Aug. 28 at Thea Foundation’s gallery, 401 Main St. in North Little Rock’s Argenta Arts District. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday. 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.
