FUN
Attend concerts, forage for fair food, check out livestock competitions and ride the rides at the 85th Arkansas State Fair, Friday-Oct. 19 at the State Fairgrounds, 2600 Howard St. at Roosevelt Road, Little Rock. Full schedule and all the details: (501) 372-8341, ArkansasStateFair.com.
MUSIC
The Band Perry performs at 7 p.m. Thursday at Reynolds Performance Hall at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway (501) 450-3265; uca.edu/pa.
The Arkansas Chamber Singers kick off their 2025-26 season with a program titled “Roots & Resonance: Folk Songs that Shaped American Choral Music,” 7:30 p.m. Friday at St. James United Methodist Church, 321 Pleasant Valley Drive, Little Rock, and 3 p.m. Sunday at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 4106 John F. Kennedy Blvd., North Little Rock. arkansaschambersingers.org.
Little Rock Winds opens its 2025-26 season with a concert titled “Outer Space,” music inspired by the cosmos plus some “Star Wars” tracks, 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Second Presbyterian Church, 600 Pleasant Valley Drive, Little Rock. lrwinds.org/tickets.
The Rock Orchestra, a 14-member ensemble currently on tour, brings its “Rock Orchestra by Candlelight” concert to Little Rock’s Robinson Center Music Hall, 426 W. Markham St., 8 p.m. Thursday. The “classical music and metal” program includes music by Metallica, AC/DC, Rolling Stones, Pantera, My Chemical Romance, Linkin Park, SOAD, Guns N Roses, Evanescence, Papa Roach and The Cranberries. Ticketmaster.com.
DANCE
Ballet Arkansas stages “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, 501 E. Ninth St., Little Rock. There will also be a special children’s production at 10:30 a.m. Saturday. balletarkansas.org/tickets,
THEATER
Wildwood Park for the Arts, 20919 Denny Road, Little Rock, stages “Disney’s High School Musical,” 7:30 p.m. Friday and Oct. 17, 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and Oct. 19 and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Oct. 18. (501) 821-7275 or visit wildwoodpark.org.
The line between ghost story and reality starts to blur in composer/writer Brandon Nichols’ new musical “The Ember Society,” which he’s workshopping at 8 p.m. Friday at Birdie’s Cabaret Theater & Lounge, 301 Main St., in North Little Rock’s Argenta District. tinyurl.com/252avaxf.
Hump? What hump? Mel Brooks’ musical “Young Frankenstein” is 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 matinees only Oct. 15 and 22), 12:45 and 6:30 p.m. Sunday. Buffet opens 90 minutes before curtain. (501) 562-3131; murrysdp.com.
ART AND EXHIBITS
Downtown Little Rock museums and merchants are gearing up for 2nd Friday Art Night, 5-8 p.m. Friday, including a Cumberland Art Block Party, which will turn Cumberland Avenue between President Clinton Avenue and Second Street into a pedestrian-only stretch with dance music, vendors and beverages from Stone’s Throw Brewing. Historic Arkansas Museum, 200 W. Third St., is offering music by Jacob Flores, craft beer from New Province Brewing of Rogers and Spooky Stories. And at the Old State House Museum, 300 W. Markham St., the continuing exhibit on documentary filmmaker Jack E. Hill plus music by the O-Matics.
CONTINUING:
“Between Cities: Altheimer, Delight, Eudora, Marked Tree,” photographs of secondary South Arkansas cities by Darrell Adams, Jessica Maxwell, Rita Henry and Rachel Worthen, is on display through Oct. 31 at Gallery 26, 2601 Kavanaugh Blvd., Little Rock. It’ll be up, 10 a.m-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, through Oct. 31. (501) 664-8996; gallery26.com
“Coordinates,” landscapes, still lifes and figurative paintings by April Burris and Holly Tilley, each including the GPS coordinates to authenticate its location, on display through Wednesday Oct. 15 at the Art Group Gallery, in the Pleasant Ridge Town Center, 11525 Cantrell Road, Little Rock. Gallery hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 1- 5 p.m. Sunday.(501) 690-2193; artgrouparkansas.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.
“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.
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.