FILM
Organ-ized ‘Hunchback’
The Arkansas Cinema Society screens the 1923 silent version of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” with organist Jason Roberts playing the score live-to-screen, 7 p.m. Thursday at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 310 W. 17th St., Little Rock. Lon Chaney plays the title role of Quasimodo with Patsy Ruth Miller as Esméralda, the gypsy girl. Doors open at 6:30. Tickets are $15, $10 for children and senior citizens. Visit arkansascinemasociety.org.
The society has also scheduled these semi-spooky screenings — both starring Nicole Kidman — prior to Halloween (tickets are $15, $10 for children and senior citizens):
◼️ “Moulin Rouge!” 2:30 p.m. Oct. 20 at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, 501 E. Ninth St., Little Rock. Kidman and Ewan McGregor star in the musical tale of a young Englishman in 1899 Paris who becomes infatuated with a singer at the Moulin Rouge, who in turn has been promised by the club manager to a duke in return for funding his next production, and who, as her wedding day draws closer, hides a fatal secret.
◼️ “Practical Magic,” 2:30 p.m. Oct. 27 at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. Kidman and Sandra Bullock play magical sisters who unwittingly unleash an evil spirit while trying to resurrect a corpse.
MUSIC
‘Enchanted Evening‘
Singer Stella Cole, trumpeter Benny Benack III, tap dancer Jabu Graybeal and a live five-piece band have put together a concert titled “Some Enchanted Evening,” tunes from Broadway, silver screen and the Great American Songbook from the Golden Age of Broadway to today, with two Arkansas performances this week:
◼️ 7 p.m. Thursday at Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St., part of the center’s part of the 10×10 Arts Series. Ticket are $10. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit waltonartscenter.org.
◼️ 7 p.m. Saturday at the University of Central Arkansas’ Windgate Center for Fine and Performing Arts, Donaghey Avenue and Bruce Street, Conway, part of the university’s UCA Public Appearances series. Tickets are $20-$40, $10 for children and students. Call (501) 450-3265 or (866) 810-0012 or visit uca.edu/publicappearances.
The three principal performers are all veterans of Postmodern Jukebox. The program will include songs from “The Wizard of Oz,” “The Sound of Music,” “South Pacific,” “Guys and Dolls,” “Hamilton” and “Oliver!”
THEATER
‘My Fair Lady’
Argenta Contemporary Theater, 405 Main St., North Little Rock, stages “My Fair Lady” (music by Frederick Loewe, book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner based on the 1938 film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 play “Pygmalion”), with preview performances at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday; thereafter, 7:30 p.m. Friday and Oct. 15-19, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Oct. 13. Leading a cast of 20, Karen Q. Clark plays Cockney flower seller Eliza Doolittle and Greta Robinson plays Henry Higgins, the linguist who “re-creates” her. ACT Producing Artistic Director Vincent Insalaco directs; Bob Bidewell is the music director. Tickets are $10-$88. Visitargentacontemporarytheatre.org.
“Asphalt Pile” is part of “Field Notes,” photographs focusing on landscapes where natural features have been disrupted by Gary Cawood, on display through Oct. 25 at Lyon College in Batesville. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)
ART
‘Field Notes’
“Field Notes,” 33 photographs focusing on landscapes where natural features have been disrupted, such as abandoned quarries and construction sites, by Gary Cawood, professor emeritus at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, is on display through Oct. 25 in Lyon College’s Kresge Gallery, Alphin Humanities Building, 2300 Highland Road, Batesville. Cawood will give an artist talk as part of a reception, 5-6:30 p.m. Thursday. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Tuesday-Friday. Admission to the gallery and reception are free.
DANCE
‘Rat Pack’ choreography
Western Arkansas Ballet’s fall ballet performance, “Showtime,” is onstage at 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday at the King Opera House, 427 Main St., Van Buren. Company dancers perform in two acts, one of original choreography and another with dances featuring choreography to music by Frank Sinatra and other “Rat Pack” entertainers. Tickets are $15. Call (479) 785-0152 or visit waballet.org.
Author Matthew Desmond gives a lecture focused on his latest book, “Poverty, By America,” Thursday at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Barron Bixler)
AT THE PODIUM
‘Poverty, By America’
New York Times bestselling author Matthew Desmond, a professor of sociology at Princeton University, will give a lecture focused on his latest book “Poverty, By America,” 5:30 p.m. Thursday in the University Theatre in the Center for Performing Arts at University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. Little Rock Vice Mayor Kathy Webb will join Desmond for an onstage, post-lecture conversation; a book signing will follow in the theater lobby. It’s part of the university’s fourth annual Inclusive and Inspiring Speaker Series. Admission is free; register at ualr.edu/diversity/event/matthew-desmond.