7Days: Regional arts and entertainment

Sunday

Two assignations In Bess Wohl's Barcelona, a funny and intriguing take on sexual politics, an American abroad leaves her bachelorette party for an adventurous tryst with a doleful Spaniard. The show, making its world premiere, goes on at 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday at the People's Light & Theatre Company, 39 Conestoga Rd., Malvern, and continues on a Tuesday- through-Sunday schedule to June 23. Tickets are $25 to $45. Call 610-644-3500. . . . In David Ives' dark comedy Venus in Fur, an actress tries to land a part in a play- wright's new show based on the classic erotic novel, with the audition veering from fantasy to reality. The Philadelphia Theatre Company show goes on at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre, Broad and Lombard Streets, and continues on a Tuesday- through-Sunday schedule to June 23. Tickets are $46 to $59. Call 215-985-0420.

Wild woman The challenging chamber opera Powder Her Face by Thomas Adès is based on the life of the Duchess of Argyll, the 20th-century British socialite whose scandalous life spilled into her country's red-topped tabloids. The 1995 work, with some implied naughtiness and an inventive score that features a slide whistle, fishing reel, popgun, and lion's roar (recorded, one hopes) is performed by Opera Philadelphia at the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater, Broad and Spruce Streets, at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, 8 p.m. Friday, and 2:30 p.m. next Sunday. Tickets are $20 to $142. Call 215-893-1018.

Monday

Smart pop Though he's taking a quieter and more straight- ahead path with his fine new album, Mala, California-via- Venezuela singer-songwriter Devendra Banhart still veers off into the eccentric, such as on our favorite track, "Für Hildegard von Bingen," a slow-jam soul paean to the mystic 12th-century composer and nun. He plays at 8:30 p.m. at Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St. Tickets are $22. Call 215-232-2100.

Tuesday

Mean streets Roman Polanski's 1974 neo-noir, Chinatown, starring Jack Nicholson as a Los Angeles private eye who's slower on the uptake than he thinks, but tougher than he seems, is less a mystery than it is a blueprint for the place we live in now. The film screens at 7 p.m. at the County Theater, 20 E. State St., Doylestown. Tickets are $9.75; $7.25 seniors. Call 215-345-6789. The film also screens at the Ambler Theater, 108 E. Butler Ave., Ambler, at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Tickets are $9.75; $7.25 seniors and students. Call 215-345-7855.

Wednesday

A river runs through it Science writer Dan Fagin's latest book, Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation, is a fascinating and infuriating chronicle of the discovery that toxic waste caused childhood cancer rates to jump in the South Jersey town and the fight to get government to step in. He discusses his work at 6 p.m. at the Penn Bookstore, 3601 Walnut St. Admission is free. Call 215-898-6623.

It's the shoes Entrepreneur and shoe designer Stuart Weitzman talks about his life and business, along with a display of his most famous wares, at 7 p.m. at the National Museum of American Jewish History, Fifth and Market Streets. Tickets: $25. Call 215-923-3811.

Still got the beat One of the greatest bands ever, regardless of gender, the Go-Go's play at 8 p.m. at the Keswick Theatre, Easton Road and Keswick Avenue, Glenside. Tickets are $36.50 to $52.50. Call 215-572-7650.

Thursday

New dances The Pennsylvania Ballet performs premieres by influential choreographers Jirí Kylián, William Forsythe, and Matthew Neenan at the Academy of Music, Broad and Locust Streets, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, and 2 p.m. next Sunday. Tickets are $20 to $125. Call 215-893-1999.

Feeling groovy Get back to where you once belonged or maybe never were by digging out your bell bottoms, beads, and tie-dye T-shirts for the Retro-Rama, a party celebrating the opening of The 1968 Exhibit. The happening, featuring music and food of the time, starts at 5:30 p.m. at the National Constitution Center, 525 Arch St. Tickets are $40. Call 215-409-6700.

Friday & Saturday

Yes she said yes Get ready for Bloomsday, the annual June 16 celebration of James Joyce's novel, with Alan Adelson and Kate Taverna's 2012 documentary, In Bed with "Ulysses," weaving archival footage, interviews, samples of staged readings

of the masterpiece, and Kathleen Chalfant reciting Molly Bloom's famed soliloquy. The film screens

at International House, 3701 Chestnut St., at 7 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $9; $7 seniors and students. Call 215-387-5125.

Love in vain Gilbert and Sullivan's bubbly comic operetta The Gondoliers, written during a particularly prickly period of the duo's collaboration, was the last hit they had - indeed, they produced only two more shows after it, both flops. The Savoy Company performs the delightful tale of mistaken identity and misplaced love, set in a fanciful Venice, at Longwood Gardens, Route 1, Kennett Square, at 8:30 p.m. Saturday and next Sunday. Tickets are $15 to $55. Call 215-735-7161.

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to Michael Harrington at mharrington@phillynews.com.