MUSIC
Outlaw goth quintet Buckshot Princess performs “country music for the misfit,” 8 p.m. Friday at The Undercroft, below Christ Episcopal Church, 509 Scott St., Little Rock. (501) 375-2342; christchurchlr.org.
The Metropolitan Opera’s production of Vincenzo Bellini’s “I Puritani” will be on big screens — including those of the Movie Tavern in Little Rock and the Razorback Cinema in Fayetteville — at noon Saturday as part of the “Met Live in HD” series. Grammy Award–winning soprano Lisette Oropesa sings the role of Elvira, opposite tenor Lawrence Brownlee as Arturo, with baritone Artur Rucinski as Riccardo and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as Giorgio. Marco Armiliato conducts. metopera.org/season/in-cinemas.
THEATER
Four middle-aged best friends seeking to start a business together buy a wedding venue, but chaos and comedy ensue when everything goes wrong in “The Second-to-Last Chance Ladies League,” a new sequel to “Always a Bridesmaid” by the comedy playwriting team of Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten. It opens Wednesday and is onstage through Feb. 7 at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock. Buffet opens 30 minutes before curtain time. — 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday (but 12:45 p.m. matinees only Jan. 14, 21 and 28), 12:45 and 6:45 p.m. Sunday. (501) 562-3131; murrysdp.com.
Mal, Evie, Jay and Carlos — the teenage children of Maleficent, the Evil Queen from “Snow White,” Jafar and Cruella DeVil, respectively — leave the Isle of the Lost for prep school in “Disney’s Descendants: The Musical”, which Benton’s Young Players will stage 7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and Jan. 15-17, 2 p.m. Sunday and Jan. 18 at the Royal Theatre, 111 N. Market St., Benton. onthestage.tickets.
ART AND EXHIBITS
New this week:
“Disfarmer: Portraits of Rural Arkansas,” early 20th-century black-and-white portraits of Arkansans by Mike Disfarmer, goes on display with a 5:30-8 p.m. reception Friday at the Old State House Museum, 300 W. Markham St., Little Rock. The exhibit is up through June.
Disfarmer was a portrait photographer who documented small-town life in Heber Springs from the 1920s until the 1950s. Born Mike Meyer, he changed his name to Disfarmer as a rejection of both his heritage (“Meier” in German means “farmer”) and the farming identity that defined the region.
Museum hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. (501) 324-9685.
CONTINUING:
“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.
“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 “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.
