Weekend Entertainment Roundup for August 15, 2024

Here’s the latest Weekend Entertainment Roundup from Eric E. Harrison, culture reporter at the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.

FILM

Arkansas Cinema Society’s 2024 Filmland opens today and continues through Sunday at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, 501 E. Ninth St., Little Rock, with screenings, workshops, panels, happy hours and after parties. Highlights include screenings of current films “Daddio,” with Dakota Johnson plays a young woman who strikes up an in-transit conversation with cabbie Sean Penn at 7 p.m. Friday and, at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, “Sing Sing,” with Colman Domingo as a man imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit who finds purpose by joining the prison theater group. See the full schedule at Filmland.org.

“Commanding the Screen: The American Presidency in Film and Television,” an exhibit featuring original costumes, set pieces, props, design sketches, scripts and other memorabilia from more than 30 movies and television shows portraying fictional and real-life presidents of the United States, opens Saturday and will be up through March 23 at the Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. clintonpresidentialcenter.org/exhibits.

THEATRE

It’s the closing weekend for:

The Arkansas Repertory Theatre’s superb production of August Wilson’s “Jitney” at the Rep, 601 Main St., Little Rock, 7 p.m. today, 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. (501) 378-0405; TheRep.org

The Royal Players’s production of the musical “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” , 7 p.m. today-Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Royal Theatre, 111 S. Market St., Benton. Ticketleap.com.

Frank Loesser’s musical “Guys and Dolls” at Red Curtain Theatre, 913 W. Oak St., Conway, 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday. redcurtaintheatre.com.

And for “Jersey Boys,” the origin story of the Four Seasons, at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock. (501) 562-3131; murrysdp.com. “Steel Magnolias” opens there on Wednesday.

MUSIC

Local R&B and/or soul singers Haywood King, Brae Leni, Deshawn Harris and Keith Savage perform for “Fellas on the River,” 7-9 p.m. today for River Market Live in the River Market Pavilions, 400 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. Admission is free. (501) 375-2552; littlerock.com.

And the Turnpike Troubadours, with opening acts Charles Wesley Godwin and Tyler Halverson, perform at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the First Security Amphitheater, behind the River Market, 400 President Clinton Ave. Ticketmaster.com

ART

“Arkansas State of Mind,” works by members of the 6 Bridges Watercolor Group, opens with a 5-8 p.m. reception Friday at the William F. Laman Library, 2801 Orange St., North Little Rock. It’ll be up through Sept. 27. (501) 758-1720 or NLRlibrary.org.

Tune in every Thursday at 4:44 p.m. to hear Eric’s roundup for arts and culture events in Central Arkansas during All Things Considered on Little Rock Public Radio.