Regional arts and entertainment events
Sunday Opera on film Based on Pushkin's novel about a nobleman who realizes too late that his egotism and anger have left him bereft of love and friendship, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin is, perhaps, the pinnacle of Russian opera. A film of the Bolshoi Theatre's 2008 production at the L'Opera National de Paris screens at 1 p.m. at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr. Tickets are $25. Call 610-527-4008.
Sunday
Opera on film Based on Pushkin's novel about a nobleman who realizes too late that his egotism and anger have left him bereft of love and friendship, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin is, perhaps, the pinnacle of Russian opera. A film of the Bolshoi Theatre's 2008 production at the L'Opera National de Paris screens at 1 p.m. at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr. Tickets are $25. Call 610-527-4008.
Finishing touches In Deborah Zoe Laufer's eschatological comedy End Days, a family deals with the approaching time of tribulation with religious conversions, nihilism, and Elvis. The show goes on at 2 and 7 p.m. today at People's Light & Theatre Company, 39 Conestoga Rd., Malvern, and continues on a Tuesday- through-Sunday schedule to Aug. 2. Tickets are $29 to $48. Call 610-644-3500.
Wacky town Give the famed Second City improv troupe the word Philadelphia, and they come back with City of Nutterly Love: Funny as Bell!, a collaboration with the Philadelphia Theatre Company. Expect some jokes about scrapple, the Mummers ("Kneel before King Clown!") and just what Billy Penn is holding there atop City Hall. The show goes on at 3 p.m. today at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre, Broad and Lombard Streets, and continues on a Wednesday-
through-Sunday schedule to July 26. Tickets are $39. Call 215-985-0420.
Monday
Broadway at the Shore Tony Award nominee Mary Testa (Guys and Dolls, On the Town) performs her show Sleepless Variations, wrapping songs by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Jimi Hendrix, and Björk around insomnia, at 8 p.m. at Cape May Stage's Shackleton Playhouse, Bank and Lafayette Streets, Cape May. Tickets are $50. Call 609-884-1341.
Tuesday
Life with bomb The Lawn Chair Drive-In returns for another season, with a selection to please the most discerning cinephile. To wit: The Bed Sitting Room, Richard Lester's little-seen 1969 adaptation of Spike Milligan's loony comedy set in a postapocalyptic England. Following a 2-minute-
and-28-second "nuclear misunderstanding," the survivors try to maintain some semblance of what had existed (a BBC presenter goes door-to-door holding up a TV screen in front of his face, commuters live on an endlessly circling subway powered by a boy on a bike, and policemen in a VW tied to a balloon try to keep order). The film, with an all-star line-up including Milligan, Rita Tushingham, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Ralph Richardson, Harry Secombe, and Marty Feldman, screens about 8 p.m. at Liberty Lands Park, Third and Poplar Streets. Admission is free. Call 267-269-1606.
Wednesday
It's like, crazy, man! More Maynard G. Krebs than Jack Kerouac, the 1959 thriller The Beat Generation is pure camp, wedging a detective's search for the criminal who assaulted his wife into a look at a beatnik scene that somehow includes Louis Armstrong, "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, and Vampira, with the pneumatic Mamie Van Doren thrown in for good measure. The film screens at 7 p.m. at the County Theater, 20 E. State St., Doylestown. Tickets are $8.75. Call 215-345-6789.
Opera on stage The Delaware Valley Opera Company performs Rossini's delightful Cinderella at Roxborough High School, 6498 Ridge Ave., at 8 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday. Tickets are $20; $18 for seniors and students. Call 215-725-4171.
Thursday
Secrets and lies In acclaimed thrillers such as The Emperor of Ocean Park and Palace Council, Stephen L. Carter examined layers of politics and race not usually delved into. In his latest, Jericho's Fall, a disgraced ex-CIA director places his former lover in danger when he arranges a deathbed reunion. Carter reads at 7:30 p.m. at the Free Library's Montgomery Auditorium, 19th and Vine Streets. Admission is free. Call 215-567-4341.
We love her The wonderful CuCu Diamantes updates the mambo with a dash of electronica and soul on her fantastic new CD CuCuLand. She plays at 7:30 p.m. at the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater, Broad and Spruce Streets. Tickets are $20. Call 215-893-1999.
Friday & Saturday
In clubland Australian dance-pop sensations the Veronicas play at the Theatre of Living Arts, 334 South St., at 7 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $19. Call 215-922-1011. . . . The California quartet Audrye Sessions plays deliciously layered pop that is just about perfect. They perform on a double bill with the similarly inclined Nashville combo Paper Route at Kung Fu Necktie, 1248 N. Front St., at 7 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $10. Call 215-291-4919. . . . Local indie heroes Jealousy Curve and Fooling April team up at the Note, 142 E. Market St., West Chester, at 9:30 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $20. Call 1-800-594-8499.
in the region over the coming weekend will appear in the Weekend section in Friday's Inquirer. Send notices of events for "7 Days"
to Michael Harrington at mharrington@phillynews.com.
