Regional arts and entertainment events

Sunday

Surreal, subconscious In 1938, the surrealist Salvador Dali went to London to meet the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, who had left Austria to escape the Nazis. Terry Johnson's deft comedy, Hysteria, imagines the meeting of the artist and the psychoanalyst as a farce, replete with slamming doors and a nubile lass whose clothes keep slipping off. The show goes on at 2 and 7:30 p.m. at the Wilma Theater, 265 S. Broad St., and continues on a Tuesday- through-Sunday schedule to June 14. Tickets are $10 to $44. Call 215-546-7824.

Sex and the city Because it was made in 1961, Blake Edwards' adaptation of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's goes lightly on the source of its hip characters' income - but reading between the lines is part of the charm of the bittersweet romantic comedy about a struggling writer in Manhattan and his fascination with an eccentric party-girl neighbor. The film screens at 2 p.m. at the Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville. Ticket are $6. Call 610-917-1228.

Monday

Global, local The outdoor World Music Festival features Philadelphia musicians with international sounds, including Old Goats (chulas, reisados and work songs of Northeastern Brazil), Xande Cruz and

the Batukis Band (Afro- Brazilian electronica),

and the West Philadelphia Orchestra (Eastern European folk-jazz-punk- soul). The music goes from 3 to 9 p.m. at the Piazza at Schmidt's, North Second Street and Germantown Avenue. Admission is free. Call 215-985-2106.

Tuesday

The place's the thing New York's Stillpoint Productions teams with local community activists for its site-specific interpretation of Cervantes. Quixote uses a company of professional and amateur actors, puppets, and music by the anarcho-gypsy-punk band the Psalters to follow the would-be knight on his quest in a world that merges 16th-century Spain and 21st-century Philadelphia. The show opens at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Broad Street Ministry, 315 S. Broad St., and continues with performances at 7 p.m. Wednesday and Friday, 3 and 7 p.m. Saturday,

7 p.m. June 2 through June 6, and 3 p.m. June 7. Tickets are $15. Call 1-800-838-3006.

Wednesday

Art and struggle Started in 1935, the Works Progress Administration employment program was a central part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. The effort included the production of millions of posters celebrating history, industry, and tourism. Of those, only a few thousand remain. Laurence Miller's collection is displayed in the exhibit Work, War & Wilderness: Pennsylvania WPA Posters 1947-1943 at the Michener Art Museum, 138 S. Pine St., Doylestown, through

Aug. 2. Admission is $6.50; $6 seniors; $4 students and ages 6 to 18. Call 215-340-9800.

Thursday

Pinch-hitter Violinist Isabelle Faust steps in to replace originally scheduled Julia Fischer as Charles Dutoit leads the Philadelphia Orchestra in Brahms' Violin Concerto, plus works by Beethoven and Honegger, at the Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall, Broad and

Spruce Streets, at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. next Sunday. Tickets are $10

to $125. Call 215-893-1999.

Music of the spheres Composer Kyle Gann uses microtones and shifting rhythms to create lyrical, compelling works. The new-music ensemble Relache performs his large-scale piece The Planets at 7 p.m. at the Franklin Institute's Fels Planetarium, 222 N. 20th St. Tickets are $20. Call 215-448-1254.

Friday & Saturday

Fast takes The program Edge of the World features a series of "speed plays" - ranging from a few seconds to five minutes - using poetry, comedy, and movement to examine Asian American experience. The show goes on at the Asian Arts Initiative, 1219 Vine St., at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Tickets are $15; $12 students. Call 215-557-0455.

Two wheelers The inimitable Secret Cinema presents a bicycle-themed program of found films, including I'm No Fool With a Bicycle, a 1955 animated safety lesson and history starring Jiminy Cricket; The Day the Bicycles Disappeared, from 1967, in which bikes go on strike for safety; and We Decide: Trade-Offs, a 1978 educational short about a school's bike-rack shortage. The films screen at Moore College

of Art and Design, 20th and Race Streets, at 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $7. Call 215-965-4099.

Blues and jazz Swamp-rock specialist J.J. Grey teams with jazz- jammers Karl Denson's Tiny Universe for a dynamite double bill at the Trocadero, 1003 Arch St., at 9 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $26. Call 215-922-5483.

Nagrin remembered The troupe Susan Hess Modern Dance pays tribute to the late dancer and choreographer Daniel Nagrin with a retrospective of his works in performance and on video. The program is at Susan Hess Modern Dance Studio, 2030 Sansom St., at 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $15. Call 215-925-5350.