Regional arts and entertainment events

Sunday

Seuss plus two The intrepid BalletX presents an intriguing program highlighted by Christine Cox's The Striped Hat, based on Dr. Seuss' children's books, with sets by Pedro Silva of Momix and music by Mozart and Debussy. Also on the bill: a new work by rising star Edwaard Liang and a revival of Matthew Neenan's Wonder Why. The troupe performs at the Wilma Theater, 265 S. Broad St., at 2 p.m. today and 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. Tickets are $30; $25 for students and seniors. Call 215-546-7824.

Thieves like us In Jane Martin's Criminal Hearts, a burglar breaks into a posh apartment only to find that it already has been looted by the vengeful ex-husband of the reclusive woman who remains behind in the wreckage. The two form a friendship of sorts based on mutual cons and a desire for revenge. The dark comedy 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 April 19. Tickets are $30. Call 215-574-3550.

Monday

Taking care We revere author Judith Viorst for her classic 1972 children's book Alexander and the the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, which has long been a guide for us on those days when we wake up with gum in our hair and there's no prize in the cereal box. So, it's no surprise to find that she's got another career as a psychoanalytic researcher and the author of such books as Imperfect Control: Our Lifelong Struggles With Power and Surrender. She'll discuss the issues of control - and probably the Alexander books, since it's the same subject, after all - at 6 p.m. at Bucks County Community College, 275 Swamp Rd., Newtown. Tickets are $10. Call 215-968-8015.

Disney girl No mere adapter, Walt Disney brought his own genius to his versions of the classics. His Alice in Wonderland, made in 1951, is a great example - most of us see the heroine in her Mary Blair-designed aspect rather than her look in Sir John Tenniel's illustrations of the 19th-century original. The film screens at 7 p.m. at Villanova University's Connelly Center Cinema, Lancaster and Ithan Avenues, Villanova. Tickets are $5. Call 610-519-4750.

Tuesday

Key player Pianist Jonathan Biss plays works by Mozart, Gyorgy Kurtag, Schubert, and Chopin at 8 p.m. at the Independence Seaport Museum, 211 S. Columbus Blvd. Tickets are $23. Call 215-569-8080.

True pop With her rent-boy look and low-range, garage-rock vocals, Lissy Trullie may appear to be persona personified. But her sound is uncompromising, straight-ahead pop, delivered with an unfiltered punk attitude. She plays at 8 p.m. at the Khyber, 56 S. Second St. Tickets are $10. Call 215-238-5888.

Wednesday

Song of justice In 1939, when the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to allow famed contralto Marian Anderson to perform at their Constitution Hall in Washington because of her race, it led to an iconic moment in the history of America's struggle for freedom. Eleanor Roosevelt helped arrange for Anderson to perform the concert on Easter Sunday on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, for an audience of 75,000. Historian Raymond Arsenault, author of Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America, discusses the event at 6:30 p.m. at the National Constitution Center, 525 Arch St. Admission is free; reservations are required. Call 215-409-6700.

Thursday

Let's get physical The invaluable Andrew's Video Vault looks back at the late-20th-century genre of celebrity exercise videos, with a triple bill: Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves from 1988, featuring the esteemed actress; Jazz Warm Up To Traci Lords from 1990, with the erstwhile porn star turned mainstream actress; and Young at Heart: Body Conditioning with Estelle from 1993, starring Estelle Getty of Golden Girls fame. The audience is welcome to work out when the films screen at 8 p.m. at the Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St. Admission is free. Call 215-901-3771.

Friday & Saturday

Sounding snazzy Like the swallows to Capistrano, Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks may be gone for some time, but they always come back. They have their first new CD in eight years (including a cover of Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues") and a tour that makes a stop at Sellersville Theater 1894, 24 W. Temple Ave., Sellersville, at 8:30 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $27.50. Call 215-257-5808.

World beat Boston's Debo Band specializes in the Ethiopian big-band sounds of the 1960s and 1970s, a combination of African polyrhythms and American funk. The group plays on a double bill with the Belasco-Jamal Trio at Crossroads Music, Calvary United Methodist Church, 48th Street and Baltimore Avenue, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $10 to $20. Call 215-729-1028.

New sounds The viola-and-guitar ensemble Duo Fresco plays a recital including works by Stephen Dodgson, John Oliver, Marin Marais, and Frank Ezra Levy at the Woodmere Art Museum, 9201 Germantown Ave., at 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $10. Call 215-247-0476.