FUN
The Silver Unit of Cirque Italia presents the story of a farm boy who has been swept away by a tornado and who lands in the heart of the city’s chaos in its latest production, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Friday; 1:30, 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 1:30 and 4:30 p.m. Sunday and 7:30 p.m. Monday at Hestand Stadium, 420 N. Blake St., Pine Bluff. The production involves clowns and trampoline, fire, quick change, rope, juggling, hand-to-hand, skating and swing acts. Tickets are $15-$55. Call (941) 704-8572 or visit cirqueitalia.com/tickets.
The Brewery Collectibles Club of America holds its 53rd CANvention, billed as the world’s largest beer cans-and- brewery collectibles show, Friday and Saturday Aug. 30-31 at Little Rock’s Statehouse Convention Center. (Special to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)
Yes we ‘can’
The Brewery Collectibles Club of America holds its 53rd CANvention, billed as the world’s largest beer cans-and-brewery collectibles show, noon-5 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday in the Governors Hall of the Statehouse Convention Center and the Marriott Hotel, Markham and Main streets, Little Rock.
The CANvention will include beer cans dating to 1935 (when the first commercial beer can was marketed in Richmond, Va.), beer advertising (including neon, light-up and metal signs, tap handles, mugs, steins and trays); beer-related items from Central Arkansas breweries (including Vino’s, Lost Forty, Diamond Bear and Flyway); and collectibles from Arkansas’ dozens of craft breweries and other breweries and beer brands from around the world.
For the Rusty Bunch Chapter beer-can dump, noon each day, collectors will wade into a gigantic pile of thousands of empty beer cans to gather as many as their hands, boxes or bags can hold.
Experts and brewery historians will be available to answer questions. Scott Mertie, owner of the Nashville Brewing Co. and a longtime Southern beer historian and author, conducts a seminar, open to club members, titled “A History of Beer & Southern Brewing,” 1-2 p.m. Friday near the convention center’s Main Ballroom.
Admission is $20 for both days, $10 Saturday only; patrons can apply $10 of the admission fee toward an annual Brewery Collectibles Club membership. Visit bcca.com.
The Brewery Collectibles Club of America holds its 53rd CANvention, billed as the world’s largest beer cans-and- brewery collectibles show, Friday and Saturday Aug. 30-31 at Little Rock’s Statehouse Convention Center. (Special to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)
THEATER
‘Psycho Beach Party’
The Weekend Theater, 1001 W. Seventh St. at Chester Street, Little Rock, stages “Psycho Beach Party” by Charles Busch, 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, through Sept. 15.
Chicklet Forrest (Leo Martinez), a teenage tomboy, desperately wants to be part of the surf crowd on Malibu Beach in 1962. One thing getting in her way is her unfortunate tendency toward split personalities, which include a Black check-out girl, an elderly radio talk show hostess, a male model named Steve and the accounting firm of Edelman and Edelman. Her most dangerous alter ego: a sexually voracious vixen who has nothing less than world domination on her mind. Kyra Hatley, Evanee Dra’a Dokes, Phillip Robbs, Dylan Sykes, Amie White Galloway, Todd Breaux, Tylen Loring and Emily Buchanan round out the cast.
Tickets are $20, $18 for students and senior citizens. Visit CentralArkansasTickets.com. For more information, call (501) 374-3761 or visit WeekendTheater.org.
‘Pay what you can’
The Arkansas Repertory Theatre, 601 Main St., Little Rock, will offer up to 100 “pay-what-you-can” tickets for preview performances of Joseph Scott Ford’s “Responders,” Wednesday and Sept. 5. Get tickets at the box office on a first-come, first-served basis at 10 a.m. Saturday Aug. 31. Sponsor is the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Call (501) 378-0405 or visit TheRep.org.
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