FUN
The Cat Fanciers’ Association places on its Gulf Shore Regional Cat Show, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday within the Hall of Industry on the Arkansas State Fairgrounds, 2600 Howard St., Little Rock.
Theme for this yr’s competitors is “Rock Around the Clock”; judges from throughout the United States and Europe will consider pedigreed cats representing greater than 40 breeds in addition to family pets on standards that features well being and look in six rings, in 4 totally different divisions, together with Championship (breeding cats), Premiership (spayed and neutered pedigreed cats), Kittens (pedigreed cats 4-8 months old) and Household Pets (blended breeds and companion cats). Vendors and artisans will promote gadgets for cats and their people; there will even be a Feline Agility Competition and a Cat Costume Contest and rescue organization Community Cats of Central Arkansas can have cats available for adoption.
Admission is $12, $10 for senior residents, $8 for kids 5-12, $30 for a Family 4-Pack (features a minimal of two kids). Visit gulf-shore-region.ticketleap.com/lr-cats.
‘Dark Matter’
Comedian Matthew Starr kicks off his touring “Dark Matter” present — “half stand-up, half science,” as he places it — alongside the trail of totality of the April 8 photo voltaic eclipse, at 8 p.m. Friday at The Joint, 301 Main St., North Little Rock.
“I’ve been engaged on this present since 2018,” Starr explains. “I used to be all set to file a model of it in April 2020 but it surely was canceled due to covid. I believed the present was completed, however then it was given a second probability due to a photo voltaic eclipse. I’ve fully revamped the present and can’t wait to carry out once more.”
The tour is in partnership with the Simons Foundation as a part of its “In The Path of Totality” initiative. Tickets are $10 prematurely, $15 on the door. Visit thejointargenta.com/occasions/matthew-starr-dark-matter.
Comedian Matthew Starr kicks off his “Dark Matter” tour Friday at The Joint in North Little Rock. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)
‘Song Without Words’
“Song Without Words,” the third live performance within the 2023-24 Steinway Salon Chamber Series, options chamber music for 2, three and 4 gamers, 3 p.m. Sunday at Steinway Piano Gallery of Little Rock, 657 Arkansas 365, Mayflower. Stephen Feldman, cello; and Naoki Hakutani, piano, will carry out Six Lieder for Cello and Piano by Johannes Brahms. Feldman joins clarinetist Andrew DeBoer and pianist Lei Cai for the Trio in B-flat main, op.11, “Gassenhauer,” by Ludwig van Beethoven. And Hakutani joins Meredith Maddox Hicks, violin; Timothy MacDuff, viola; and David Gerstein, cello, to play the Piano Quartet in E-flat main, op.47, by Robert Schumann. Tickets are $25. Call (501) 940-1562 or go to steinwaylr.com/close-up.
THEATER
‘She Loves Me’
Amalia (Gabrielle Neasfey) and Georg (Matthew Burns), squabbling store clerks in a Nineteen Thirties European perfumery, reply to a “lonely hearts commercial” within the newspaper and begin exchanging nameless love letters in “She Loves Me,” (music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, e-book by Joe Masteroff, primarily based on Mikos Lazlos’ play “Parfuemerie”). The Royal Players stage the musical at 7 p.m. today-Saturday and Feb. 22-24 and a couple of p.m. Sunday and Feb. 25 on the Royal Theatre, 111 S. Market St., Benton. Sponsor is the W.W. and Anne Jones Trust. Tickets are $18; $15 senior residents 60 and older, members of the navy and school college students with legitimate ID, $8 Okay-12 college students. Visit theroyalplayers.ticketleap.com. For questions or extra info, e-mail [email protected].
‘Little Women’ musical
Touring firm Big League Productions levels “Little Women — the Musical” (music by Jason Howland, lyrics by Mindi Dickstein, e-book by Allan Knee, primarily based on the Louisa May Alcott basic), 7:30 p.m. Friday in Reynolds Performance Hall on the University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. Hannah Taylor performs Jo, with Rachel Pantazis as Meg, Noa Harris as Amy, Camryn Hamm as Beth and Aaron Bower as Marmee. Tickets are $30-$50, $10 for kids and college students. Call (501) 450-3265 or (866) 810-0012 or go to uca.edu/reynolds.
“Little Women — the Musical” is onstage Friday on the University of Central Arkansas in Conway. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Pamela Raith Photography-Aria Entertainment Production)
ART
Native American artwork
“Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, Nineteen Forties to Nineteen Seventies,” a touring exhibition of 52 works by 36 artists that spotlight fashionable Native American artwork via the lens of Twentieth-century Abstract Expressionism, Color Field and Hard-Edge Painting, opens Friday within the Harriet and Warren Stephens Galleries on the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, 501 E. Ninth St., Little Rock. The exhibition, drawn from the gathering of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, N.M., contains works by George Morrison, Fritz Scholder and T.C. Cannon, in addition to work from the museum’s assortment by Raven Halfmoon (Caddo), Dawn Walden (Ojibwe) and Kay StrollingStick (Cherokee). It’ll stay on show via May 26. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday and Saturday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. Visit arkmfa.org.
“New Mexico #40” by Fritz Scholder and “Geometric #4” by Harvey Herman are a part of the “Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, Nineteen Forties to Nineteen Seventies” exhibition opening Friday on the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)
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Military Gear Show
The MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, 503 E. Ninth St., Little Rock, hosts a Vintage Military Gear Show in its upstairs Arsenal Gallery, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Living historians will put their collections of weapons, uniforms and different accoutrements on show and can be available to reply questions. Admission is free. Call (501) 376-4602.
Little Rock’s MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History hosts a Vintage Military Gear Show Sunday. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)
