Regional arts and entertainment events
Sunday Poet and president Bill Van Horn's one-man show O Captain, My Captain: Whitman's Lincoln presents the good gray poet in 1887, staging a dress rehearsal for his national tour and reciting his works in tribute to the fallen 16th president. The show goes on at 2:30 p.m. today at the Walnut Street Theatre's Independence Studio on 3, 825 Walnut St., and continues on a Tuesday-through-Sunday schedule to Feb. 8. Tickets are $30. Call 215-574-3550.
Sunday
Poet and president Bill Van Horn's one-man show
O Captain, My Captain: Whitman's Lincoln
presents the good gray poet in 1887, staging a dress rehearsal for his national tour and reciting his works in tribute to the fallen 16th president. The show goes on at 2:30 p.m. today at the
Walnut Street Theatre's
Independence Studio on 3, 825 Walnut St., and continues on a Tuesday-through-Sunday schedule to Feb. 8. Tickets are $30. Call 215-574-3550.
Living in the USA Conductor
Peter Nero
and
the Philly Pops
teamed with photographer
Joseph Sohm
and composer
Roger Kellaway
to create
Visions of America
, a multimedia journey across the nation using music and pictures. Singer
Patti Austin
performs some of the "mosaics" (visualized songs) in the piece. The show goes on at
the Kimmel Center's
Verizon Hall, Broad and Spruce Streets, at 3 p.m. today, 8 p.m. Wednesday and Friday, and 3 p.m. Saturday and next Sunday. Tickets are $27 to $104. Call 215-893-1999.
Chamber music Violinist
Nancy Bean
and harpist
Anne Sullivan
, as
Duo Parisienne
, play works by Marin Marais, Ravel, Hans Trnecek, Massenet, Handel and Saint-Saëns at 3 p.m. at
the German Society
, 611 Spring Garden St. Tickets are $20. Call 215-627-2332. . . . The
Muir Quartet
, with guest
Menahem Pressler
, piano, plays works by Lukas Foss, Ravel and Dvorák at 3 p.m. at the
Independence Seaport Museum
, 211 S. Columbus Blvd. Tickets are $23. Call 215-569-8080. . . . Cellist
Jonah Kim
plays works by Beethoven, Rachmaninoff and Brahms at 3 p.m. at
the Glencairn Museum
, 1001 Cathedral Rd., Bryn Athyn. Tickets are $10; $5 for students. Call 267-502-2600.
Monday
The power of art Stelios Charalampopoulos' documentary
Amos Oz
is a portrait of the great Israeli writer, a tough-minded voice for peace and compromise. The film screens at 7 p.m. at
the Gershman Y
, 401 S. Broad St. Tickets are $10. Call 215-446-3019.
Tuesday
The Muppet show "Sunny day / Sweepin' the clouds away / On my way to where the air is sweet" - c'mon, everybody sing! - "Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?" Hard to believe, but Jim Henson's seminal children's TV series debuted 40 years ago. In his book
Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street
, former TV Guide writer
Michael Davis
looks at the beginnings of Bert and Ernie, Cookie Monster, Big Bird, and Oscar the Grouch and the ways they've evolved over the decades. Davis discusses his work at 6 p.m. at
the Penn Bookstore
, 3601 Walnut St. Admission is free. Call 215-898-5965. He also appears at
the Gershman Y
, 401 S. Broad St., at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Tickets are $10. Call 215-545-4400.
Play it again You may think you've seen
Casablanca
, but on a big screen the film classic can reveal new facets unperceived on the late show, underscoring why Michael Curtiz's 1943 drama of love and war is a perennial favorite. The film screens at 7:30 p.m. at
the Chestnut Hill Library
, 8711 Germantown Ave. Admission is free. Call 215-248-0977.
Wednesday
In slumberland The show
Lucid Dreaming
features sculpture, paintings, films, collages and photographs examining the role of dreaming in art as well as the nature of the body in dreams. The show is at
the Michener Art Museum
, 138 S. Pine St., Doylestown, to April 12. Admission is $6.50; $6 for seniors; $4 for students. Call 215-340-9800.
Thursday
Live TV On television,
Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
is kind of like a really funny train wreck - a little scary, a bit horrifying, but you can't look away as their surreal sketches threaten to implode at any moment. Tim and Eric perform live at 9 p.m. at
the Theatre of Living Arts
, 334 South St. Tickets are $28. Call 215-922-1011.
Friday & Saturday
Old school The indispensable
Secret Cinema
presents another surprising selection of forgotten fare with
Classroom Films of the Silent Era
, some unseen since the 1920s. Among the offerings:
Studies in Animal Motion
, a 1922 British film including a boxing kangaroo, and
Modern Basketball Fundamentals
, made in 1925 with University of Kansas coach F.C. "Phog" Allen, plus
Monkeys of Asia
,
Ethyl Alcohol
and more. The films screen, with live accompaniment by Don Kinnier, at
Moore College of Art & Design
, 20th and Race Streets, at 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $7. Call 215-965-4099
The politics of dancing The
Rebecca Davis Dance Company
continues its intriguing mission of exploring contemporary issues with a new ballet,
Greed: The Tale of Enron
, performed at
the Prince Music Theater
, 1412 Chestnut St., at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Tickets are $30; $25 for students. Call 215-569-9700.
New growth We're happy to see that one of our favorite local singer-songwriters, Emily Zeitlyn, is back with her band
the Weeds
, preparing a new album and performing at
Philadelphia Magic Gardens
, 1020 South St., at 5 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $10. Call 215-733-0390.