FUN
North Little Rock Tourism transforms the Argenta District north of the river into a winter wonderland with the 10th anniversary North Little Rock Northern Lights Holiday Festival, 3-7 p.m. Saturday at Argenta Plaza, 510 Main St., North Little Rock. The event features light displays, live entertainment including carolers, holiday markets and family-friendly activities and photos with Santa, centering on a 38-foot Christmas tree. Food trucks and Argenta’s Flyway Brewing will have food and drinks available for purchase. facebook.com/events/5169449246613874/
And the Downtown Little Rock Partnership lights up downtown with the annual lighting of the city’s holiday tree, 5:30 p.m. Monday on the plaza at Capitol Avenue and Main Street. “Bright the Night” will feature a performance by the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet, cookies from Community Bakery and hot cocoa from Big Bad Breakfast and Hiland Dairy. facebook.com/events/644757601908831.
MUSIC
Country singer-songwriter Riley Green headlines the 2025 “Duckman Jam,” a duck season kick-off benefiting Ducks Unlimited, 6:45 p.m. Friday at North Little Rock’s Simmons Bank Arena. Also on the bill: Jamey Johnson, Drake White and Lauren Watkins. (501) 340-5660; simmonsbankarena.com.
THEATER
Four well-meaning white people (Drew Reynolds, Peter Sturdevant, Caleb Patton and Katie Choate) struggle to write a historically accurate first-Thanksgiving play for children that doesn’t tick off the funders, the founders, the parents or the universe in “The Thanksgiving Play” by Larissa FastHorse, onstage 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Nov 28-29 and Dec. 5-6, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 30 and Dec. 7 at the Weekend Theater, 1001 W. Seventh St. at Chester Street, Little Rock. centralarkansastickets.com/f/thanksgivingplay.
Professional adult actors perform short original plays by fourth-graders from Little Rock’s Martin Luther King Elementary (most of them in their second year in the Downtown Playmakers Project), 2 p.m. Saturday at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre, 601 Main St., Little Rock. therep.org/downtown-playmakers-project-tickets.
A touring company performs “When a Woman’s Fed Up” by David T. Payton and Annette Campbell, 7:30 p.m. Friday at Little Rock’s Robinson Center Performance Hall, 426 W. Markham St. at Broadway. Campbell also directs the play, “about love, struggle, and the courage to choose independence and happiness,” according to a news release. Tickets are $61.15-$87.40, including fees. Call (501) 244-8800 or visit Ticketmaster.com.
Wildwood Park for the Arts, 20919 Denny Road, Little Rock, and Praeclara are closing out their run of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” 7:30 p.m. Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. (501) 821-7275; ovationtix.com.
And “Frozen: The Musical” is onstage through Dec. 31 at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock. Buffet opens 90 minutes before the 7:30 p.m. curtain. (501) 562-3131; murrysdp.com.
ART AND EXHIBITS
“Kuimeaux’s World,” drawings and paintings by late Little Rock native Dwight “Kuimeaux” Drennan, is on display through spring 2027 at Little Rock’s Historic Arkansas Museum, 200 E. Third St. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. (501) 324-9351.
The 2025 Arkansas Quilters Guild Exhibition is on display through Dec. 14 at the Central Arkansas Library System’s Adolphine Fletcher Terry Library, 2015 Napa Valley Drive, Little Rock. Library hours are 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. arkansasquiltersguild.org.
At the Windgate Center of Art and Design, 5617 W. 28th St., Little Rock., “Nicole Seisler — Some Truths About Clay,” works by ceramicist Nicole Seisler, on display through Dec. 12 in the North and South Galleries. And “Naima Green: Seismic Feelings,” photographs by Green, the Windgate Center Artist-in-Residence for the fall 2025 semester, that “examine the nature of intimacy, sensuality, and self-recognition,” are on display through Dec. 8 in the Focus Gallery. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
“Slow Down. Look Closer.,” watercolor paintings by Matt TerAvest “exploring themes of introspection, solitude and vulnerability,” up through Nov. 27 at Thea Foundation, 401 Main St. in North Little Rock’s Argenta District, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 5-8 p.m. Nov. 21 during Argenta’s Third Friday Art Walk. theafoundation.org.
“Thomas Hart Benton,” a traveling exhibition of original artwork created by the artist during World War II, is up through July 31 at the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, 503 E. Ninth St., Little Rock. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. (501) 376-4602; littlerock.gov/macarthur.
“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),” up through Jan. 17 at Cantrell Gallery, 8202 Cantrell Road, Little Rock. It’s remains, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday or by appointment. (501) 224-1335; cantrellgallery.com.
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 through Nov. 29 at the William F. Laman Public Library, 2801 Orange St., North Little Rock. (501) 758-1720; NLRlibrary.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.
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.