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Your browser does not support the audio element. THEATER Gee, ‘Wiz’ Actors Theatre of Little Rock goes oh-ee-oh with “Little Rock Sings: The Wicked Wiz of Oz,” songs from “Oz” musicals (“The Wizard of Oz,” “The Wiz” and “Wicked”), 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Camp Taco, 822 E. Sixth St., Little Rock. The theater group will also announce its Season 4 lineup. Dress in green or come as your favorite Oz character. Admission is free but they’ll be taking donations for a “Brighten the Stage” campaign. Visit facebook.com. ‘Join the Band’ Blippi and his best buddy Meekah will be rocking out with fans (primarily aimed at kids 2-7) in “Blippi: Join the Band,” based on the live-action preschool YouTube show, onstage at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Little Rock’s Robinson Center Performance Hall, 426 W. Markham St. at Broadway. Tickets — $48.90-$81.75 — are available at Ticketmaster.com. MUSIC ‘Mr. Chips’ opera Opera in the Ozarks, at the Inspiration Point Center for the Arts, 16311 U.S. 62 West just west of Eureka Springs, is expanding its artistic programming beyond the summer season by adding a new film series, which kicks off 2 p.m. Nov. 9 with a screening of a reimagined-for-the-screen production of Gordon Getty’s opera “Goodbye, Mr. Chips.” Tenor Nathan Granner, an Opera in the Ozarks alumnus (1992-93), sings the title role and will take part in a post-screening conversation about the making of the film and his personal artistic journey. The opera, based on James Hilton’s 1934 novella, is the story of a devoted schoolteacher at an English boys’ boarding school whose decades of service become a testament to love, loss and the lasting power of education. Tickets are $20. Call (479) 253-8595 or visit opera.org. ‘Something New’ The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Percussion Ensemble will perform works by Steve Reich, Eckhard Kopetzki Pawassar, David Cole and Alex Flannigan in a concert titled “Something New,” 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre, 601 Main St., Little Rock. The Trojan Steel Band also performs traditional Calypso tunes. Admission is free. Email jbunting@ualr.edu. ART ‘Seismic Feelings’ “Naima Green: Seismic Feelings,” photographs by Green, the Windgate Center Artist-in-Residence for the fall 2025 semester, that “examine the nature of intimacy, sensuality, and self-recognition,” goes on display Monday in the Focus Gallery of the Windgate Center of Art and Design at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 5617 W. 28th St., Little Rock. The exhibition remains up through Dec. 8; Green will attend a reception, 5-7 p.m. Nov. 20, in the center’s main lobby. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Admission is free. Call (501) 916-5103 or email bwyoung@ualr.edu. ON SCREEN ‘Revolution,’ televised Arkansas PBS, in collaboration with the University of Arkansas Humanities Center, will host a reception, screening and panel discussion marking the premiere of Ken Burns’ documentary “The American Revolution,” 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Jim & Joyce Faulkner Performing Arts Center, UA, 453 N. Garland Ave., Fayetteville. Following a preview of the six-part, 12-hour series (by Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt), a panel of current and former university faculty members “will connect Arkansas’ history to America’s story,” according to a news release. Doors open at 5 p.m. Admission is free; register at myarpbs.org/revolutionscreeninguofa. “The American Revolution” airs at 7 p.m. Nov. 16-21 on PBS and on Arkansas PBS. ETC. Box-office hours The Robinson Center Box Office, 426 W. Markham St. at Broadway, Little Rock, has cut back its hours, now open 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday through Friday and one hour before each performance. Call (501) 244-8800 or visit robinsoncenter.com.
