FUN
"Disney on Ice Presents: Let’s Dance," featuring “fan favorites” from “Frozen 2,” “Wish,” “The Lion King,” “The Little Mermaid” and “Moana,” is on the ice at North Little Rock’s Simmons Bank Arena, 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday; 11 a.m. and 3 and 7 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Ticketmaster.com.
The Historic Arkansas Museum, 200 E. Third St., Little Rock, holds its 53rd Territorial Fair, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday on the grounds of the museum and its 1850s farmstead. The museum is partnering with the Quapaw Nation for the event. Programming will highlight the Indigenous people and groups that emigrated to Arkansas. Planned activities include drying, pounding and cooking corn; dice games; foot races; and “cultural make-and-take activities,” with demonstrations at the museum’s print shop, blacksmith shop, cabinet-making shop, millinery and textile spaces. Activities also include making cornhusk dolls, paper folding and spinning natural fibers. The museum will also have folks serving the fair’s signature beverage, raspberry lemon shrub. arkansasheritage.com/events?agencies=HAM.
MUSIC
Violinist Julian Rhee, the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s second “Artist of Distinction” of the season, solos in Benjamin Britten’s Violin Concerto with the orchestra and conductor Geoffrey Robson for Masterworks concerts, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday, at Little Rock’s Robinson Center Performance Hall, 426 W. Markham St. at Broadway.Also on the program: “Pasajes” by Tania León, which the orchestra will be recording this weekend, and Modest Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition.” (501) 666-1761, Ext. 1; arkansassymphony.org.
Rhee will stick around to play chamber music — including Felix Mendelssohn’s Octet, with orchestra musicians, 7 p.m. Tuesday at the orchestra’s Stella Boyle Smith Music Center, 1101 E. Third St. in Little Rock’s East Village.
Atlanta-based blues guitarist Tinsley Ellis performs at 7 p.m. Friday at the Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., Little Rock. (501) 320-5715; ronrobinsontheater.org.
And catch the Metropolitan Opera Opera’s new production of Richard Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” on the big screen, 11 a.m. Saturday at the Movie Tavern in Little Rock. metopera.org/season/in-cinemas.
THEATER
Benton’s Young Players stage “Shrek The Musical Jr.”, 7 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday at the Royal Theatre, 111 N. Market St., Benton. our.show/the-royal-theatre.
The Weekend Theater, 1001 W. Seventh St. at Chester St., Little Rock, closes out its run of “Nuts” by Tom Topor, 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday. The theater is rating the show R for graphic language and discussion of sexual content. centralarkansastickets.com.
The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Children’s Theatre continues its run of “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 next Tuesday-Friday March 24-27 in the Performing Arts Theater at the museum, 501 E. Ninth St., Little Rock. arkmfa.org.
And at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” is onstage, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 12:45 and 6:45 Sunday (but a 12:30 p.m Wednesday matinee only April 1) through April 18. Buffet opens 30 minutes before curtain time. (501) 562-3131; murrysdp.com.
ART AND EXHIBITS
New this week:
“Architecture, Rust, Treasures,” works in pastel, pencil, ink and acrylic by mother and daughter Caprise Cooper and Evelyn Laurence, go on display with a Third Friday Art Walk reception, 5-8 p.m. Friday at the Argenta Public Library, 420 Main St., North Little Rock. The exhibition, up through April 10, “celebrates the beauty of overlooked places, weathered objects and natural landscapes,” and also features work by 7-year-old Bearrett Laurence, representing a third generation of artists in the Cooper family. Library hours are 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday. Admission is free. Call (501) 687-1061 or visit NLRlibrary.org.
Continuing:
“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.
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.
Cantrell Gallery, 8202 Cantrell Road, Little Rock, is showing Daniel Coston’s “My Creeks” exhibition through April 18. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. (501) 224-1335; cantrellgallery.com.
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.
“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.