ENTERTAINMENT NOTES
Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
Clarkson tickets
Tickets — $42.50, $53, $85.50 and $118.50 — go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday for a 7 p.m. Sept. 3 concert by Kelly Clarkson, part of her 2015 “Piece by Piece” tour, with “special guests” Pentatonix and Eric Hutchinson, at North Little Rock’s Verizon Arena.
There’s an eight-ticket limit per household and the arena will be using its Credit Card Entry (formerly Paperless Ticketing) system. The Verizon Arena box office will not be open. Call (800) 7453000 or visit ticketmaster. com.
Fantastic films
The Film Society of Little Rock’s Fantastic Cinema Film Festival continues through Sunday at the Studio Theatre, 320 W. Seventh St., Little Rock, with a lineup of 30 feature and short fantasy, science fiction, action, horror and crime/suspense films. The society’s executive director, Tony Taylor, and co-programmer Josh Harrison selected the official selections from 115 entries from more than 24 countries. A list of films and festival schedule will be listed on the festival’s Facebook page, tinyurl.com/md4782u.
Screenings will be in two rooms of the theater; the lobby and bar will feature entertainment. Tickets are $7 per screening; $15 for a day pass; $40 for full festival passes (includes two discounted drinks at the Lobby Bar each night of the festival), $35 for students. Visit fantasticcinema2015.bpt.me.
Big band
The Stardust Big Band will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Arlington Resort Hotel and Spa, 239 Central Ave., Hot Springs. Admission is $10, free for K-12 students. Call (501) 767-5482 or visit stardustband.net. Macbeth on screen
The Riverdale 10, 2600 Cantrell Road, will screen the Globe on Screen production of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, 7 p.m. today. The film, not rated, stars Moyo Akande, Geoff Aymer, Bette Bourne, Stuart Bowman, Billy Boyd, Jonathan Chambers and Philip Cumbus in the Bard’s lurid tale of a Scottish thane driven by ambition — and the prophecy of three witches — to usurp the Scottish throne and start a series of murders that culminates in his bloody overthrow. Call (501) 296-9955.
‘Figaro for Families’
The Conway Symphony Orchestra and the University of Central Arkansas Opera Theatre is bringing opera to central Arkansas youngsters with a program titled “Figaro for Families,” 2 p.m. Saturday at Reynolds Performance Hall, UCA, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. Tickets are $6. Call (501) 450-3265 or visit ConwaySymphony.org.
The program will feature fully staged “fun and funny selections” from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, which the Opera Theatre will stage at 7 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday in Reynolds Performance Hall. Tickets are $10. Call (501) 4503163.