THEATER
Stormy Shakespeare
Shake on the Lake and the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Performing Arts are staging “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday in the Amerine/Calhoun Glass Box at the museum, 501 E. Ninth St., Little Rock. The production of Shakespeare’s final play, aimed at audiences 12 and older, uses music, live Foley sound effects, improvisation, puppetry and audience interaction in the story of the magician Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, holding sway on a remote island peopled by monsters and fairies and Prospero’s young daughter, who conjures up a storm to wreck the ship in which his usurper sails. Tickets are $36, $29 for museum members. Visit arkmfa.org/series/the-tempest.
Disney in song
Actors Theatre of Little Rock performers sing Disney favorites and audience members can sing along as the company marks its third birthday with “Little Rock Sings: Disney!,” 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Camp Taco, 822 E. Sixth St., Little Rock. Admission is free; however, the theater is starting a fundraising campaign seeking to come up with $3,000 for its third season. Donate at donorbox.org/happy-3rd-birthday-actors-theatre-of-little-rock. Visit facebook.com/events/728665856530064.
ART
‘Papier-Mache Masks’
Pine Bluff’s ARTx3 Campus holds its Second Saturday Family FunDay: “Papier-Mâché Masks,” 1-3 p.m. Saturday at the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, 701 S. Main St. Admission is free. Sponsors are the Pine Bluff Area Community Foundation and McFarland Eye Care. Call (870) 536-3375 or visit artx3.org/all-events/family-funday-july-2025.
ETC.
Book ’em, Danno
The Central Arkansas Library System holds a used book sale, 2-5 p.m. Thursday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday-Saturday at 7773 Sloane Drive, Little Rock. It’s the final sale before the reopening this fall of the Main Library at 100 Rock St., Little Rock. All books are priced at $1, with a 25% discount for educators “as a thank-you for their invaluable work in shaping young minds,” according to an email blast to library patrons. Proceeds fund CALS programs, including the Six Bridges Book Festival and the Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Directions: Take exit 4 from Interstate 440 East (coming from downtown Little Rock, it’s one exit beyond the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport) and turn right onto Lindsey Road, then turn right onto Mauney Road and left onto Frazier Pike/Sloane Drive. The building will be on the right. Call (501) 918-3090 or visit CALS.org.
TICKETS
Symphonic singles
Single tickets for the Arkansas Symphony’s 2025-26 season Stella Boyle Smith Masterworks, First Orion Pops, and Bank of America River Rhapsodies concerts are now on sale.
Tickets to Masterworks and Pops concerts at Little Rock’s Robinson Center Performance Hall are $19-$92 (pricing subject to change based on availability), $15 for college students and active-duty military, free for youngsters 18 and younger with the purchase of an adult ticket (using the Entergy Kids Ticket).
Tickets to the Pops Special, “Star Wars: Return of the Jedi,” Oct. 18-19 at Robinson, are $29-$108 (pricing subject to change).
Tickets to River Rhapsodies chamber music concerts in the Susie and Charles Morgan Hall at the orchestra’s Stella Boyle Smith Music Center in Little Rock’s East Village are $30 (subject to change), $15 for students and military; $50 for the “Artist of Distinction” concerts Nov. 18 featuring pianist Orion Weiss and March 24 with violinist Julian Rhee.
Call (501) 666-1761, Ext. 1, or visit ArkansasSymphony.org.
The orchestra has also unveiled the programming for its River Rhapsodies concerts:
◼️ Oct. 7-8: Piano Trio in B major, op.8, by Johannes Brahms; Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano by Francis Poulenc; and the String Quartet No. 2, “Kabardinian,” by Sergei Prokofiev
◼️ Nov. 18: Phantasy Quartet for Violin, Oboe, Viola, Cello by Benjamin Britten; Pastorale for Flute and Piano by Gunnar de Frumerie; Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, op.44, with Orion Weiss
◼️ Jan 27-28: String Quartet No. 1 by Arnold Schoenberg; Brahms’ Piano Quintet in f minor, op.34
◼️ Feb. 17-18: Violin Sonata by Claude Debussy; “Ennanga” by William Grant Still; Cello Sonata by Alberto Ginastera
◼️ March 24: “Ciaconna in Memoriam Giovanni Paolo II” by Krysztof Penderecki; Piano Quintet by Arthur Foote; solo pieces for violin featuring Julian Rhee; Octet in E-flat major, op.20, by Felix Mendelssohn
◼️ April 21-22: “Song and Dance for Dan Ross” by Arthur Kreutz; Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 2 in a minor, op.13; Trio for Brass by Lauren Bernofsky; Piano Trio by Maurice Ravel.