FUN
Used book sale
The Central Arkansas Library System hosts its first used book sale of 2025, 2-5 p.m. Thursday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Port Industrial Hub, 7773 Sloane Drive, Little Rock. Cost per book is $1 for paperbacks, $2 for hardbacks. “Bargain boxes,” sealed boxes containing many books of the same subject or genre, are $2. Call (501) 918-3000 or visit cals.org.
Proceeds go to the CALS Foundation to support the Six Bridges Book Festival, Summer @ CALS, book club kits, grants to all CALS library branches and other library programs. You can donate books at any CALS branch, except the Main and Roberts libraries while renovations to the Main Library are in progress.
Military gear
The MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, 503 E. Ninth St., Little Rock, hosts its second Vintage Military Gear Show, 1-4 p.m. Sunday in the museum’s upstairs Arsenal room. Friends of the museum Arthur Eschenburg and Hayden Lang are displaying their collection of uniforms, helmets, weapons and other military gear. Admission is free. Call (501) 376-4602.
THEATER
‘Frog & Toad’
Actors Theatre of Little Rock stages “A Year With Frog & Toad” (music by Robert Reale, book and lyrics by Willie Reale, based on the books by Arnold Lobel), 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, through March 1 at Quapaw Quarter United Methodist Church, 1601 Louisiana St., Little Rock. Dakota “Koty” Mansfield as cheerful, popular Frog and Anthony McBride as rather grumpy Toad lead a cast of eight adults with a “mole/squirrel” cast of eight children. Tickets are $25, $20 for students, senior citizens and military in advance, $5 more at the door. Visit actorstheatrelr.org/tickets.
‘School of Rock’
Argenta Contemporary Theater, 405 Main St., North Little Rock, stages “School of Rock the Musical” (music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Glenn Slater, book by Julian Fellowes based on the hit movie), 7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and Tuesday-Feb. 22 and 2 p.m. Sunday and Feb. 23. Dewey Finn (played by Jonathan Fili), a failure as a wannabe rock star, decides to earn extra cash by posing as a substitute teacher at a prestigious prep school and turns a class of straight-A pupils into a guitar-shredding, bass-slapping, mind-blowing rock band. A live on stage band accompanies the 28-member cast. Tickets are $10-$88; all shows are already sold out but a waiting list is available for ticket turnbacks. Visit argentacontemporarytheatre.org.
‘Seussical Jr.’
The Royal Theatre Young Players turn the theater, 111 S. Market St., Benton, into the Jungle of Nool as they stage “Seussical Jr.” (music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, book by both, conceived by Ahrens, Flaherty and Eric Idle based on the works of Dr. Seuss), 7 p.m. Thursday-Friday and Feb. 20-21 and 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday and Feb. 22-23. Sponsor is Everett Chevrolet. Tickets are $20; $15 for senior citizens 60-plus, members of the military and college students with valid ID; $10 grades K-12. Visit ticketleap.events/events/theroyalplayers.
A-State in ‘Train-ing’
Arkansas State University’s theater department stages “Stuck on a Train to Nowhere,” developed through improvisation, storytelling and collaboration by the department’s devised theater class, 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday and Feb. 21-22 and 2:30 p.m. Sunday and Feb. 23 in the Simpson Theatre, Fowler Center, 201 Olympic Ave., Jonesboro.
The setting is a mysterious train that never stops, on which a group of passengers find themselves trapped, “unable to remember how they got there or where they are going,” says assistant professor of theater DayDay Robinson. “The characters are guided by an enigmatic conductor who pulls them into fragments of their pasts.”
The play contains mature themes, including moments of strong language, depictions of emotional and physical abuse, references to substance abuse, grief and loss. Tickets are $15, $10 for senior citizens and university faculty and staff, free for A-State students with ID. Visit AState.edu/tickets.
AUDITIONS
‘Sound of Music’
The Royal Theater holds auditions for Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music,” 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and 5-9:30 p.m. Feb. 22 in the choir room of First United Methodist Church, 200 N. Market St., Benton. (Enter on Conway Street.) Prepare 32 bars (or one minute) of a song in the style of the show; there will not be an accompanist so take an instrumental or accompaniment track; a speaker to which to plug up will be available. Callbacks will take place at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 23. Production dates are June 12-22.
Fill out the audition form at forms.gle/BNLeNHBUYbMfwJew5 and subsequently sign up for an audition time at signupgenius.com/go/10C0A44ADAA22A2F8C52-54725363-sound. More information and a complete character breakdown is available at facebook.com/events/617318674216948.
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Nominate authors
The Central Arkansas Library System is accepting nominations for authors who have released publications in 2025 for possible inclusion in the 2025 Six Bridges Book Festival, through March 7 via sixbridgesbookfestival.org. In its 22nd year, the festival, Sept. 28-Oct. 5, will host authors for free panel discussions, readings, book signings “and other fun and enriching programs,” according to a news release. For more information, visit sixbridgesbookfestival.org or call (501) 918-3000.