Weekend Picks: Belt out Carole King with the Philly POPS
Philadelphia Orchestra
Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall (Broad and Spruce Streets)
2 p.m., Friday and 8 p.m., Saturday, $35 to $142.
Conductor Andres Orozco-Estrada leads the Philadelphia Orchestra in Brahms' Violin Concerto, with the dynamic Augustin Hadelich as soloist, plus works by Barber and Dvorák.
A Moon for the Misbegotten
Walnut Street Theatre's Independence Studio on 3 (825 Walnut St.)
7:30 Friday, 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, $35 to $45.
In Eugene O'Neill's 1947 drama A Moon for the Misbegotten, two lost souls -- a drunken ne'er-do-well actor and an earthy, aging farm girl -- orbit each other with a chance at happiness, however fleeting. Read Toby Zinman's review.
Holographic
FringeArts, 140 N. Columbus Blvd.
8 p.m., Friday, $15
The challenging composer Daniel Wohl performs his new work, Holographic, an acoustic/electronic mix presented as part of an "audiovisual experience."
Open
Prince Theater (1412 Chestnut St.)
8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, and 3 p.m. Sunday, $20 to $57.
The kinetic and surprising troupe Ezralow Dance performs Daniel Ezralow's full-length work Open, consisting of 15 choreographic vignettes.
Philly POPS pays tribute to Carole King
Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall (Broad and Spruce Streets)
8 p.m. Friday, 3 p.m. Saturday, and 3 p.m. Sunday, $35 to $125.
As a songwriter, Carole King would be remarkable enough, with over 100 charting hits, from "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" when she was just 19, to "The Loco-Motion" to "Up on the Roof" to "Pleasant Valley Sunday." As a performer, she had one of the great albums of all time in 1971's Tapestry, with "So Far Away" and "It's Too Late." Conductor Michael Krajewski leads the Philly Pops in a tribute to the icon with singers Liz Callaway, Allison Blackwell, and Bryce Ryness