Weekend Entertainment Roundup for September 12, 2024

OPENING

The Arkansas Symphony unveils its new Stella Boyle Smith Music Center, 1101 E. Third St., Little Rock, starting with a 9 a.m. parade from the River Market to the East Village, followed by a 10 a.m. ribbon cutting, musical performances throughout the day; outdoor festivities and kids’ activities; and concluding at 7 p.m. with masquerade party. Everything but what the food trucks vend is free. (501) 666-1761; arkansassymphony.org.

DANCE

Ballet Arkansas company members show off their “Bold New Moves,” 6:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 6 p.m. Sunday Sept. 13-15 at Argenta Plaza, 510 Main St., North Little Rock. The program features three world premieres set “to music from Arkansas recording artists, classical composers, indie-folk rock and electronica.” Food trucks will vend “libations and culinary delights.”Admission is free. balletarkansas.org.

Little Rock’s Museum of Discovery, 500 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock, hosts its 13th annual Tinkerfest, “celebrating the creative, hands-on, do-it-yourself spirit that sparks curiosity and innovation,” 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday Sept. 14. Participants can build with recycled materials, experiment with circuits and robotics, create art from everyday objects and engage in crafting and building options. museumofdiscovery.org.

MUSIC

The River City Men’s Chorus opens its 2024-25 session with a concert of “Music of Craig Courtney,” 3 p.m. Sunday Sept. 15, 7 p.m. Monday-Tuesday Sept. 16-17, at St. James United Methodist Church, 321 Pleasant Valley Drive, Little Rock. Admission is free; show up early because these concerts fill up quickly. (501) 377-1080; rivercitymenschorus.com.

Country legend Dwight Yoakam, with opening act Wade Bowen, performs at 8 p.m. Friday at North Little Rock’s Simmons Bank Arena. (501) 975-9000; simmonsbankarena.com.

The Avett Brothers, with opening act Jamestown Revival, perform at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Little Rock’s First Security Amphitheater, 400 President Clinton Ave. (501) 224-8800; Littlerock.com.

THEATER

The First National Tour of “Peter Pan” — the classic musical in a new book adaptation by Larissa FastHorse, is at Little Rock’s Robinson Center Performance Hall, 426 W. Markham St. at Broadway this weekend, 7:30 p.m. Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 1 p.m. Sunday. (501) 244-8800; CelebrityAttractions.com or Ticketmaster.com.

Two top-billed vaudevillians whose act lasted more than 40 years must somehow sublimate a long-standing feud when a TV network asks them to take part in a “History of Comedy” retrospective in Neil Simon’s “The Sunshine Boys,” a collaboration between the Argenta Contemporary Theatre is partnering with the Acansa Arts Festival of the South, 7:30 p.m. today-Saturday and Sept. 17-21 and 2 p.m. Sunday in the ACT II Sharon Heflin Performing Arts Center, 315 Main St., North Little Rock. argentacontemporarytheatre.org.

A 15-year-old earns her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the country in “What the Constitution Means to Me” by Heidi Schreck, making its Little Rock debut in an Actors Theatre of Little Rock production, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday and 6 p.m. Sunday through Sept. 21 at Quapaw Quarter United Methodist Church, 1601 Louisiana St., Little Rock. actorstheatrelr.org/tickets.

The Arkansas Repertory Theatre continues its summer-season-closing run of of “Responders” by Little Rock playwright Joseph Scott Ford. (501) 378-0405; TheRep.org.

“Psycho Beach Party” by Charles Busch closes its run, 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Weekend Theater, 1001 W. Seventh St. at Chester Street, Little Rock. CentralArkansasTickets.com.

And Robert Harling’s “Steel Magnolias” closes out its run this weekend at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday. (501) 562-3131; murrysdp.com.