Christmas movie double bill to show at 4 theaters in state
Fathom Events, Turner Classic Movies and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment are screening a Christmas double feature, “TCM Presents: A Christmas Carol and Christmas in Connecticut,” the 1938 film version of Charles Dickens’ classic tale with Reginald Owen as Scrooge and the 1945 Barbara Stanwyck comedy, at 2 and 7 p.m. today at the Breckenridge Village 12 and Colonel Glenn 18 in Little Rock, the Razorback 16 Cinema in Fayetteville and the Fort Smith Cinema in Fort Smith. Ticket information is available at fathomevents. com/event/tcm-holiday-classic
Holiday Tales
Tales from the South will offer its “Holiday Dinner and Show,” 7 p.m. Tuesday in the ballroom of the Capital Hotel, 111 W. Markham St., Little Rock. Dinner and music, featuring the Salty Dogs and blues guitarist Mark Simpson, start at 6. Tickets are $40. Visit talesfromthesouth.com.
Heiskell Lecture
Author and ESPN anchor Jeremy Schaap will discuss his experiences in sports journalism at “An Evening with Jeremy Schaap,” the Central Arkansas Library System’s J.N. Heiskell Distinguished Lecture, at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., Little Rock. Admission is free. A book signing and reception will follow. To reserve a seat, call (501) 918-3009 or email pedwards@cals.org.
Architecture lecture
Geoff Winningham, on the faculty at Rice University in Houston, will give a lecture titled “Working in the Eye of the Sun: Photographing the Vernacular Architecture of Arkansas” at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the lecture hall of the Arkansas Arts Center in MacArthur Park, East Ninth and Commerce streets. A 5:30 reception will precede the talk.
Winningham, working in the early ’80s with Cy Sutherland of the University of Arkansas School of Architecture, traveled throughout the state, identifying and photographing vernacular forms — everyday structures built by and for ordinary people, including houses, barns, silos, churches, schools and stores. Selections from his collection of hundreds of blackand-white images appear in Of the Soil, a book recently published by the University of Arkansas Press.
The lecture is under the auspices of the Architecture and Design Network, which includes the Arkansas Arts Center, UA’s Fay Jones School of Architecture and the Central Arkansas Section of the Arkansas chapter of the American Institute of Architecture, with support from a grant from the Arkansas Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Admission is free. Email ardenetwork@mac.com.
Conway Wintersong
The Conway Men’s Chorus will give its 17th annual Wintersong Christmas Holiday choral concert at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Donald W. Reynolds Performance Hall, University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway.
Sam Huskey will conduct Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s “On This Very Christmas Night,” plus standard carols and seasonal songs and an audience singalong. The chorus’s newly formed singing group, Profundus, will open the concert. Admission is free. Doors open at 6:30. Call (501) 327-5151, email info@ conwaymenschorus.org or visit conwaymenschorus.org.
Murder auditions
Community Theatre of Little Rock will hold open auditions for Rehearsal for Murder by Columbo creators Richard Levinson and William Link, 7 p.m. Dec. 14-15 at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 310 W. 17th St., Little Rock. Directors Liz Turner and Tamara Boggs will cast nine men and six women via cold readings from the script. Production dates are Feb. 13-March 1. Call (501) 410-2283 or visit the website, ctlr-act.org.