FUN
The Holiday Inn Express & Suites Maumelle, 200 Holiday Drive, Maumelle, hosts a Gem Amethyst Rock Fossil Sale, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Thousands of crystals, minerals, fossils and gems will be available starting at $5, as well as meteorites, cabochons and amethyst cathedrals. facebook.com/events/1155441773035809/1155441776369142.
More than 80 exhibitors will be on hand to help engaged couples plan their weddings at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Wedding Show, 12:30-4 p.m. Sunday at the Statehouse Convention Center, Markham and Main streets, Little Rock. (501) 378-3807; arkansasbridalcommunity.com.
MUSIC
Country Jason Aldean, with opening acts Nate Smith, Lanie Gardner and Dee Jay Silver, performs at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at North Little Rock’s Simmons Bank Arena. (501) 340-5660; ticketmaster.com.
Also at the arena, Winter Jam 2026, 7 p.m. Friday, features performers Chris Tomlin, Matthew West, Katy Nichole, Hulvey, Disciple, Emerson Day, NewSong, Zane Black. simmonsbankarena.com.
The Arkansas Symphony Community Orchestra, area amateur musicians at various experience levels operating under the aegis of the Arkansas Symphony’s Education & Community Outreach arm, presents “A Night at the Opera,” 7 p.m. Sunday at Calvary Baptist Church, 5700 Cantrell Road, Little Rock. Soprano Shannon Webb will sing arias by Puccini and Verdi and, with mezzo-soprano Sarah Dailey, a duet from “The Tales of Hoffmann” by Jacques Offenbach. The orchestra will play the Prelude to Engelbert Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel”; the “Minuet” and “Dance of the Blessed Spirits” from “Orfeo e Euridice” by Christoph Willibald Gluck; and the torrid “Bacchanale” from “Samson and Delilah” by Camille Saint-Saëns. ASO Associate Conductor Valery Saul will be on the podium. (501) 666-1761; Arkansassymphony.org.
THEATER
New this week:
Two struggling writers decide to write a musical for a New York musical theater festival in just three weeks in “[title of show]” — and yes, that’s the title of the show — 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday through Feb. 1 at the Weekend Theater, 1001 W. Seventh St. at Chester Street, Little Rock. centralarkansastickets.com/e/titleofshow.
Actors Theatre of Little Rock offers another one-shot “Bard @ the Bar,” a reduced (60–75 minutes) and purportedly comedic version of William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” 7 p.m. today at Fassler Hall, 311 E. Capitol Ave., Little Rock. facebook.com/actorstheatrelr.
Continuing:
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, 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. 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, 2 p.m. Sunday at the Royal Theatre, 111 N. Market St., Benton. onthestage.tickets.
ART AND EXHIBITS
“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),” is on display through Saturday at Cantrell Gallery, 8202 Cantrell Road, Little Rock. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. or by appointment. (501) 224-1335; cantrellgallery.com.
“Disfarmer: Portraits of Rural Arkansas,” early 20th-century black-and-white portraits of Arkansans by Mike Disfarmer, is up through June, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday, at the Old State House Museum, 300 W. Markham St., Little Rock. (501) 324-9685.
“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.
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, plus a special art installation, on display through Feb. 1. (501) 916-9022.
“Under A Restless Sky,” a 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.
