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ART
Disfarmer portraits
“Disfarmer: Portraits of Rural Arkansas,” early 20th-century black-and-white portraits of Arkansans by Mike Disfarmer, goes on display with a 5:30-8 p.m. reception Friday at the Old State House Museum, 300 W. Markham St., Little Rock. The exhibit is up through June.
Disfarmer was a portrait photographer who documented smalltown life in Heber Springs from the 1920s until the 1950s. Born Mike Meyer, he changed his name to Disfarmer as a rejection of both his heritage (“Meier” in German means “farmer”) and the farming identity that defined the region.
Admission to the reception and the exhibit is free. Museum hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Call (501) 324-9685.
El Dorado exhibitions
“Quotidian Moments through Different Lenses,” collaborative and individual works by Magnolia artists and Southern Arkansas University faculty members Rhaelene Rollins Lowther and Anna Zusman, is on display through Jan. 29 in the Merkle Gallery of the South Arkansas Arts Center, 110 E. Fifth St., El Dorado.
A companion photography exhibition, “Magnolia Through the Lens of SAU Artists,” showcasing work by beginning SAU photography students, is on display in the center’s Price Gallery.
The center will hold a 5:30-7 p.m. reception Thursday.
Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Admission is free. Call (870) 862-5474 or visit saac-arts.org.
THEATER
‘Disney’s Descendants’
Mal, Evie, Jay and Carlos — the teenage children of Maleficent, the Evil Queen from “Snow White,” Jafar and Cruella DeVil, respectively — leave the Isle of the Lost for prep school in “Disney’s Descendants: The Musical” (music adaptation by Madeline Smith, book and additional lyrics by Nick Blaemire), which Benton’s Young Players will stage 7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and Jan. 15-17, 2 p.m. Sunday and Jan. 18 at the Royal Theatre, 111 N. Market St., Benton. Sponsor is Mid-Town Plumbing Company. Tickets are $15. Visit onthestage.tickets/show/the-royal-theatre/69344c9aa70f8a68348bf68f.
MUSIC
Met Live ‘I Puritani’
The Metropolitan Opera’s production of Vincenzo Bellini’s “I Puritani” will be on big screens — including those of the Movie Tavern in Little Rock and the Razorback Cinema in Fayetteville — at noon Saturday as part of the “Met Live in HD” series. Grammy Award–winning soprano Lisette Oropesa sings the role of Elvira, opposite tenor Lawrence Brownlee as Arturo, with baritone Artur Rucinski as Riccardo and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as Giorgio. Marco Armiliato conducts. Ticket information is available at metopera.org/season/in-cinemas.