FUN The Irish Cultural Society of Arkansas’ St. Patrick’s Day Parade gets underway at 1 p.m. Saturday at Sixth and Main streets in downtown North Little Rock. It transits the Argenta Arts District, crosses the Arkansas River via the Main Street Bridge, continues east on President Clinton Avenue through the River Market District, turns south on Sherman Street and concludes at Third and Cumberland streets in Little Rock. Post parade, marching pipe and drum bands and Irish dancers from the McCafferty Academy and O’Donovan School of Irish Dance will perform. irisharkansas.org/parade. MUSIC At North Little Rock’s Simmons Bank Arena this weekend, Treaty Oak Revival, with opening acts William Clark Green and Gannon Fremin & CCREV, 7 p.m. Friday, and Chicago, 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Ticketmaster.com. The Philander Smith University Choir joins the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and guest conductor Herb Smith for the season’s third pops concert, titled “Symphonic Sci-fi,” 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday at Little Rock’s Robinson Center Performance Hall, 426 W. Markham St. at Broadway. The program includes music from “Star Trek,” “Avatar,” “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “E.T.,” “Star Wars,” “Doctor Who” and “Back to the Future.” (501) 666-1761; arkansassymphony.org. THEATER Wildwood Park for the Arts concludes its run of Gilbert & Sullivan’s comic operetta “The Pirates of Penzance,” 7:30 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in the Lucy Lockett Cabe Theatre at Wildwood, 20919 Denny Road, Little Rock. (501) 821-7275; wildwoodpark.org. Big League Productions’ touring production of Meredith Willson’s “The Music Man” is onstage, 7:30 p.m. Sunday in Reynolds Performance Hall at the University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. (501) 450-3265 or (866) 810-0012; uca.edu/publicappearances. Benton’s Young Players stage “Shrek The Musical Jr.”, 7 p.m. Thursday-Friday and March 19-20, 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and March 21 at the Royal Theatre, 111 N. Market St., Benton. our.show/the-royal-theatre. The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Children’s Theatre stages “Elephant & Piggie’s ‘We Are in a Play!’,” 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday through March 28 with additional 10:30 a.m. spring break shows March 24-27 in the Performing Arts Theater at the museum, 501 E. Ninth St., Little Rock. Recommended for ages 3 and up. arkmfa.org. A high-priced call girl, incarcerated on a charge for killing a violent John, must prove she isn’t, as the state claims, mentally unfit to stand trial in “Nuts” by Tom Topor, onstage 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday through March 22 at the Weekend Theater, 1001 W. Seventh St. at Chester St., Little Rock. The theater is rating the show R for graphic language and discussion of sexual content. centralarkansastickets.com. Actors Theatre of Little Rock closes out its run of Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” in “immersive” fashion, 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 2 p.m. Saturday at Quapaw Quarter United Methodist Church, 1601 Louisiana St., Little Rock. actorstheatrelr.org. Travis Ledoyt, billed as “The World’s Best Elvis,” is back at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock. Opening Wednesday March 17 and running through April 18: “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 12:45 and 6:45 Sunday. Buffet opens 30 minutes before curtain time. (501) 562-3131; murrysdp.com. COMEDY Comedian and actor Gary Owen, on his “No Hard Feelings” tour, is onstage at 8 p.m. Thursday at Little Rock’s Robinson Center Performance Hall, 426 W. Markham St. at Broadway. Ticketmaster.com. ART AND EXHIBITS The Mid-Southern Watercolorists’ 56th annual juried exhibition is on display through May 1 at the William F. Laman Public Library, 2801 Orange St., North Little Rock. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Friday-Saturday. (501) 758-1720; NLRlibrary.org. Arkansas Women to Watch 2026: Words Become Matter” is up through April 18 in the Underground Gallery at the CALS Roberts Library, 401 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, noon-4 p.m. Saturday. robertslibrary.org/current-exhibitions. “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. (501) 372-4000; arkmfa.org. Cantrell Gallery, 8202 Cantrell Road, Little Rock, hosts a reception with light refreshments 6-8 p.m. Friday for artist Daniel Coston, whose “My Creeks” exhibition is on display at the gallery through April 18. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. (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 in 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. 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.
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