DANCE

Ballet Arkansas stages Sergei Prokofiev’s ballet ‘Romeo & Juliet’, based on the play by William Shakespeare, complete with balcony scene and sword fights, 7:30 p.m. Friday, 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Little Rock’s Robinson Center Performance Hall, 426 W. Markham St. at Broadway. Joining Ballet Arkansas’ 16-member company is a community cast of approximately 100. The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and conductor Geoffrey Robson will be in the pit for the Friday night and Saturday matinee performances, marking the first time the complete ballet has been performed with orchestra in Arkansas, according to the Ballet Arkansas folks. (501) 244-8800; balletarkansas.com, ticketmaster.com.

THEATER

Actors Theatre of Little Rock stages “A Year With Frog & Toad,” 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 plays cheerful, popular Frog withg Anthony McBride as rather grumpy Toad. actorstheatrelr.org/tickets.

A failure as a wannabe rock star poses 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 in “School of Rock the Musical,” onstage 7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and Tuesday-Feb. 22 and 2 p.m. Sunday and Feb. 23 at the Argenta Contemporary Theater, 405 Main St., North Little Rock. A live on-stage band accompanies the 28-member cast. All shows are already sold out but a waiting list is available for ticket turnbacks. argentacontemporarytheatre.org.

The Royal Theatre Young Players turn the theater, 111 S. Market St., Benton, into the Jungle of Nool as they stage “Seussical Jr.”, based on the works of Dr. Seuss, 7 p.m. Thursday-Friday Feb. 13-14 and Feb. 20-21 and 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday Feb. 15-16 and Feb. 22-23. ticketleap.events/events/theroyalplayers.

And an 83-year-old “Cinderella” teaches her unusual family that it’s never too late to find Prince Charming in “Social Security” by Andrew Bergman, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday (12:30 p.m. Wednesday matinees only, Feb. 19) and 12:45 and 6:45 p.m. Sunday through March 8 at at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock. (501) 562-3131; murrysdp.com.

The Central Arkansas Library System hosts its first 2025 used book sale, 2-5 p.m. today Thursday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday and Saturday Feb. 13-15 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. (501) 918-3000; cals.org.

And 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 Feb. 16 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. (501) 376-4602.

ART AND EXHIBITS

“Commanding the Screen: The American Presidency in Film and Television,” material from more than 30 movies and television shows portraying fictional and real-life U.S. presidents, is up through March 23 at the Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. clintonpresidentialcenter.org/exhibits.

“Lighter than the childhood home,” items by German artist Iris Eichenberg that “explore identity, memory and personal stories through 2D and 3D sculpture and works in metal, fiber and wood,” is on display through March 9 in the Brad Cushman Gallery in the Windgate Center of Art + Design here at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday. Admission is free. (501) 916-5117.

And the Arkansas Arts Council’s 2025 Small Works on Paper,  40 pieces, no larger than 18-by-24 inches, by 35 Arkansas artists, is on display through Sunday Feb. 16 at UA Little Rock’s Windgate Center of Art + Design, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, 2-5 p.m. Sunday.