Regional arts and entertainment events

Sunday

Chamber music The venerable Philadelphia Chamber Ensemble plays works by Jean Francaix, Paul Ben-Haim, and Brahms at 2 p.m. at Old Pine Street Church, Fourth and Pine Streets. Tickets are $25. Call 215-542-4890. . . . The Miami String Quartet plays works by Beethoven, Dohnanyi, and Schubert, with guest Lydia Artymiw, piano, at 3 p.m. at the Independence Seaport Museum, Columbus Boulevard and Walnut Street. Tickets are $23; $10 for students. Call 215-569-8080.

Miscarriage of justice Kander and Ebb's 2010 musical The Scottsboro Boys uses a minstrel-show format to revisit the 1930s scandal involving a group of African American teens unjustly convicted of rape and sentenced to death, an outcome that caused national outrage and provided a spark for the civil rights movement. The Philadelphia Theatre Company production goes on at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre, Broad and Lombard Streets, and continues with shows at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, 7 p.m. Wednesday, 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, and 3 p.m. next Sunday. Tickets are $51 to $74. Call 215-985-0420.

Moves like Jagger Mighty funk saxophonist Karl Denson brings his group Tiny Universe to a reexamination of the Rolling Stones' seminal 1971 album Sticky Fingers at 8 p.m. at Union Transfer, 1024 Spring Garden St. Tickets are $20. Call 215-232-2100.

Monday

Comic sweets Leave it to 1812 Productions to jump the big day by one with its cabaret Funny Valentine. The evening of comedy and song goes on at 8 p.m. at the Tin Angel, 20 S. Second St. Tickets are $15. Call 215-928-0770.

Tuesday

Deadly kisses Nicholas Ray's classic 1950 noir In a Lonely Place follows the tempestuous love affair of a belligerent, embittered writer (Humphrey Bogart) and his aspiring actress neighbor (Gloria Grahame). After she gives him an alibi when he is accused of murder, she begins to wonder if she was wrong to do so. The film screens at 7 p.m. at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr. Tickets are $10; $7 for seniors. Call 610-527-9898.

Wednesday

Think of the trees Israeli artist Tal Shochat takes large photographs of fruit trees against black backgrounds, creating images that idealize her subjects while revealing an innate vulnerability. Seven of her works are displayed as part of Tu B'Shevat (festival of trees) at the National Museum of American Jewish History, 101 S. Independence Mall East, to April 22. Admission is $12; $11 for seniors and students. Call 215-923-3811.

Thursday

Lives they lived A chronicler of 20th-century gay life, Edmund White is also one of the nation's best novelists. His new novel, Jack Holmes and His Friend, looks at the complicated relationship between two men, one straight, one gay, in the libertine 1960s. White reads from his work, on a double bill with Christopher Bram (Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America), at 7:30 p.m. at the Free Library, 1901 Vine St. Admission is free. Call 215-567-4341.

So it goes Eric Simonson's adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's masterpiece Slaughterhouse-Five, in which a World War II veteran becomes "unstuck in time" and experiences his life outside of chronology, goes on at 8 p.m. Thursday at the Curio Theatre, 4740 Baltimore Ave., and continues on a Thursday-through-

Saturday schedule to March 3. Tickets are $15 and $20. Call 215-525-1350.

Key player Conductor

Charles Dutoit

leads

the Philadelphia Orchestra

in Rachmaninoff's

Piano Concerto No. 2

with soloist

Nikolai Lugansky

, plus works by Hindemith and Strauss, at

the Kimmel Center's

Verizon Hall, 300 S. Broad St., at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Tickets are $10 to $124. Call 215-893-1999.

Rising star Choreographer Faye Driscoll discusses her new work and performs a duet with dancer Jesse Zaritt at the Performance Garage, 1515 Brandywine St., at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $15. Call 215-546-2552.

Jazz man Iraqi-American trumpeter Amir ElSaffar performs with his Two Rivers Ensemble at the Art Alliance, 251 S. 18th St., at 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $15. Call 215-545-4302.