THEATER
‘Stomp’ at UCA
“Stomp,” the touring percussion show in which the ensemble uses “everything but conventional percussion instruments — dustbins, suitcases, radiator hoses, boots (and) hub caps,” according to a news release, is onstage at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the University of Central Arkansas’ Reynolds Performance Hall, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. It’s part of the UCA Public Appearances series. Tickets are $30-$50, $10 for children and students. Call (501) 450-3265 or (866) 810-0012 or visit uca.edu/publicappearances.
‘Beetlejuice’ at WAC
The musical “Beetlejuice” (original score by Eddie Perfect, book by Scott Brown and Anthony King, based on Tim Burton’s 1998 film) is onstage at 7 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday, 1:30 and 7 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Oct. 27 at Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St. Tickets are $42-$93. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit waltonartscenter.org.
MUSIC
Spooky fundraiser
The Arkansas Choral Society celebrates an early Halloween with a fundraiser “pops” concert, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Lobby Bar at the Studio Theatre, 320 W. Seventh St., Little Rock. The program of spooky and semi-spooky tunes includes “The Monster Mash,” “Mr. Sandman,” “Headless Horseman” and songs from “Wicked” and “Jekyll & Hyde.” Ticket price — $25 — includes appetizers; drinks will be available for purchase. Visit lovetosing.org.
ASO at UAMS
Arkansas Symphony Orchestra musicians perform for the fall concert of the Dr. Ruth Marie Allen Concert Series, 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Pauly Auditorium, Rahn Building (G219) at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 4301 W. Markham St., Little Rock.
The Rockefeller String Quartet — Trisha McGovern Freeney and Linnaea Brophy, violins; Katherine Reynolds, viola; and Jacob Wunsch, cello — performs the String Quartet No. 3 by Johannes Brahms. The ASO Brass Quintet — Andrew Stadler and Carl Mason, trumpet; Robin Dauer, horn; Michael Underwood, trombone; and Ryan Matejek, tuba — will play “Suite Impromptu for Brass Quintet” by Andre Lafosse. Admission is free; patrons should park in the Parking 2 visitor lot and take the pedestrian bridge to the Rahn Building. Visit arkansassymphony.org/events/ruth-allen-fall-2024.
Allen, the former associate dean for academic affairs in the UAMS College of Health Professions, endowed the concert series before her death in 2023.
Author Carmen Maria Machado reads from and discusses her work Wednesday at Hendrix College in Conway. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)
AUTHOR, AUTHOR
Memoirist at Hendrix
Carmen Maria Machado, author of the bestselling memoir “In the Dream House” and the story collection “Her Body and Other Parties” and a Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Visiting Writer, will read from and discuss her work at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Reves Recital Hall at Hendrix College, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. Admission is free. A reception and book signing will follow in the nearby Trieschmann Gallery. Copies of Machado’s books will be available through Little Rock bookseller WordsWorth Books. Visit hendrixmurphy.org.
Lyon alum
Author and screenwriter John Hornor Jacobs, a 1994 Lyon College alumnus, will give a public reading at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Bevens Music Room, Brown Chapel and Fine Arts Building, at the college, 2300 Highland Road, Batesville. After the reading, the college will award Jacobs its annual Leila Lenore Heasley Prize for Fiction. Jacobs’ debut novel, “Southern Gods,” was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award for Excellence in a First Novel and won the Darrell Award. He is also the author of a young adult trilogy, beginning with “The Twelve-Fingered Boy.” Admission is free. Visit lyon.edu.
ETC.
Preservation Ramble
Oct. 29 is the deadline to register for Preserve Arkansas’ Nov. 9 daylong Ramble to “significant historic places throughout the Southeast Arkansas Delta associated with the region’s legacy of strength and resilience,” according to a news release.
The trip begins at 7:30 a.m. at the North Little Rock Welcome Center, 600 Main St., North Little Rock, and includes stops at the Dunbar Jr. and Sr. High School on Wright Avenue in Little Rock, Lakeport Plantation Museum in Lake Village, the University of Arkansas at Monticello’s Taylor Log House and Site in Tillar, the Selma Rosenwald School in Selma, the Japanese-American Internment Camp Museum in McGehee, the Rohwer Relocation Center Cemetery in Rohwer, the John H. Johnson House in Arkansas City and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Museum and Cultural Center. The trip caps off with dinner at the Colonial Steakhouse in Pine Bluff before returning to North Little Rock.
Tickets, including charter bus transportation, brea
kfast, beverages (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) on the bus, snacks, lunch, dinner and site tours, are $150. Half-day tickets without charter bus transportation are $100 and include lunch, dinner and site tours; half-day ticketholders will meet the group at noon for lunch at the Taylor Log House and Site, 184 Plantation Lane, Tillar, and provide their own transportation to all afternoon sites.
Register and get more details at preservearkansas.org/what-we-do/preservation-ramble.
