THEATER
Bunco busters
Eight longtime friends drink, eat, reminisce, gossip, complain about their husbands and occasionally remember to play another round of Bunco in “The Bunco Squad” by Jim Hesselman, opening with a 12:30 p.m. preview matinee Wednesday at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock. The show runs 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday (but 12:30 p.m. Wednesday matinees only Aug. 20 and 27), 12:45 and 6:45 p.m. Sunday through Sept. 6. The buffet opens 90 minutes before curtain. Tickets are $43-$47, $33 for children 15 and younger, and for show-only. Call (501) 562-3131 or visit murrysdp.com.
‘SIX’-teen
Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived — the six royal wives of Henry VIII turned pop icons assemble on the stage of the Argenta Contemporary Theater, 405 Main St., North Little Rock, for “SIX: Teen Edition,” a full-length adaptation of Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’ show modified for performance by teenage actors for family audiences. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m.
The cast, all members of the theater’s Pre-Professional Company: Sascha Bass as Catherine of Aragon, Berkeley Courtney-Moore as Anne Boleyn, Blakely White as Katherine Howard, Caroline Pledger as Jane Seymour, Karah Collins as Anne of Cleves and Jenna Thaxton as Catherine Parr. “Swings” Mallory Lafferty, Eli Atkins, Taylor Moore and Nyla Newton will be performing for the Saturday matinee.
Tickets are $38-$88. Visit argentacontemporarytheatre.org.
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Medium Experience
Theresa Caputo, from TLC’s “Long Island Medium,” will share personal stories, explain how her “gift” works, deliver healing messages to audience members and give grieving people comfort in “Theresa Caputo Live! The Experience,” 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Little Rock’s Robinson Center Performance Hall, 426 W. Markham St. Tickets are $71-$102 (plus service charges) via Ticketmaster.com. Buying a ticket does not guarantee a reading.
Virtual preservation
Robyn Lane and Rachel Tucci, faculty members at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville will give a virtual talk at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, part of Preserve Arkansas’ “Women in Preservation” virtual speaker series. “Admission” is free. Register to attend via Zoom at tinyurl.com/25h335hf; watch the talk live on YouTube at tinyurl.com/2p9pebzc.
Step Afrika! fuses Black American percussive dance, African traditions and contemporary art Nov. 9 at Arkansas State University-Mountain Home.
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ASUMH series
“Resurrection: A Journey Tribute” kicks off the 2025-26 Performing Arts Series at Arkansas State University-Mountain Home, 7 p.m. Sept. 13 in the Coulter Performing Arts Center at the Vada Sheid Community Development Center at ASUMH, 1600 S. College St., Mountain Home. Tickets are $40, $20 for students.
The rest of the lineup (except as noted, all shows, 7 p.m. at The Sheid; tickets are $40, $20 for students):
◼️ Sept. 23: Reed Timmer, PhD. — Extreme Meteorologist, 6 p.m. Free, part of the university’s Gaston Lecture Series. Timmer is the principal on the Discovery Channel’s “Storm Chasers.”
◼️ Oct. 8: Grammy-nominated Louisiana bluesman Tab Benoit
◼️ Nov. 9: Step Afrika!, fusing Black American percussive dance, African traditions and contemporary art
◼️ Dec. 2: “Who Brought the Humbug,” musical featuring singers, dancers and beatboxers. $45, $22.50
◼️ April 9: Voctave, 11-member vocal group
◼️ April 16: Country singer Wilson Fairchild. 6 p.m.; free.
Season and individual event tickets will be available starting Wednesday. Call (870) 508-6280 or visit thesheid.com.
Lorissa Mason, director of choral studies at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and music director of the Arkansas Chamber Singers, will be a featured conductor in a residency June 14-21 in Vienna.
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Viennese residency
Lorissa Mason, director of choral studies at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, will be a featured conductor in a residency with MidAm International, a European gathering of American choral groups June 14-21 in Vienna.
As part of the residency, Mason will conduct “Dixit Dominus” by 18th-century composer Marianna Martines, a contemporary of Mozart and Haydn, June 17 with the Symphonischesorchester Wien and soloists at Vienna’s Minoritenkirche. The chorus will also include the Arkansas Chamber Singers, for which Mason is the music director, and an Arkansas high school choir. UALR students, alumni, faculty and staff and community members can also take part as singers (in the context of Mason-led Ozark Festival Singers) or as traveling companions to singers. Contact Mason at [email protected].
The weeklong session includes includes guided tours of Vienna and Salzburg, visits to Mozart’s birthplace, Beethoven’s home, Schönbrunn Palace and St. Stephen’s Cathedral. MidAm International, a division of MidAmerica Productions, has brought Mason in twice to conduct twice in New York’s Carnegie Hall.