7Days: Regional arts and entertainment

Sunday

Picture this The venerable Philadelphia Sketch Club features work by more than 40 top illustrators in the show Phillustration 6, opening with a reception from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the club's gallery, 235 S. Camac St., and continuing to Nov. 8. Admission is free. Call 215-545-9298.

Memorable women In Alan Zweibel's Bunny Bunny, the former Saturday Night Live writer relives and reimagines his friendship with one of the show's brightest stars, Gilda Radner. The 1812 Productions show goes on at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Walnut Street Theatre's Independence Studio on 3, 825 Walnut St., and continues with shows at 8 p.m. Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, and 2 p.m. next Sunday. Tickets are $25 to $40. Call 215-592-9560. . . . Jane Austen's novel Emma, about a headstrong and meddlesome young woman who finds herself unexpectedly learning some valuable truths about herself, has proven timeless (it was the source for the 1995 film Clueless, after all). The Lantern Theater Company's production of Michael Bloom's stage adaptation goes on at 2 p.m. Sunday at St. Stephen's Theater, 10th and Ludlow Streets, and continues with shows on a Wednesday-through-Sunday schedule to Nov. 3. Tickets are $10 to $36. Call 215-829-0395.

Baroque gems In a recital in memory of the late harpist Karin Fuller Capanna, violinist Daniel Elyar will play works by Purcell, Pandolfi Mealli, Biagio Marini, Johann Schmelzer, and Pachelbel, with guests Daniella Pierson, viola; Richard Stone, lute; Eve Miller, cello; and Fran Berge, violin, at 3 p.m. at Settlement Music School's Curtis branch, 416 Queen St. Admission is free. Call 215-320-2684.

Monday

Life story In her fiction, Alice Hoffman (Practical Magic) has created worlds suffused with fantastic elements to look at issues confronting women. In her first work of nonfiction, Survival Lessons, Hoffman uses her experience as a breast-cancer survivor to suggest ways to find beauty even during illness. She discusses her work at 7:30 p.m. at the Free Library, 1901 Vine St. Admission is free. Call 215-567-4341.

Tuesday

On the bus U.S. travelers in Central America are sometimes greeted with the startling sight of decommissioned school buses from el Norte repurposed for transport. (We once passed a still-yellow former Bensalem School District bus on a remote dirt road in Costa Rica.) Ardmore native Mark Kendall's 2012 documentary La Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus looks at the travails of a Guatemalan driver as he does business on his brightly repainted bus under threats of extortion and violence. The film screens at 7 p.m. at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr. Tickets are $10.50; $8 seniors; $7 students. 610-527-9898.

Wednesday

With strings A recent winner of a MacArthur genius grant, mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile is better known as the power behind Nickel Creek and the Punch Brothers. He plays at 7:30 p.m. at the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater, Broad and Spruce Streets. Tickets are $28 to $38. Call 215-893-1999.

Chamber music Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano, with pianist Christopher Cano, performs Chausson's Quatre Mélodies and songs by Korngold, Schubert, Britten, Vaughan Williams, Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninoff, at 8 p.m. at the American Philosophical Society, 427 Chestnut St. Tickets are $24. Call 215-569-8080.

Thursday

Dance dance The kinetic Paul Taylor Dance Company performs the classics Fibers (1961) and Profiles (1979) and two newer works at the Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut St., at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday, and 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $20 to $55. Call 215-989-3900.

Friday & Saturday

Pop life Jazzy singer Madeleine Peyroux brings her distinctive pop blend to the Merriam Theater, 250 S. Broad St., at 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $30 to $55. Call 215-893-1999.

This American life In these times, it makes particular sense to turn to comedians to explain the body politic. Colin Quinn explains America's founding document, the judicial system, and the Kardashians at the National Constitution Center, 525 Arch St., at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $40; reservations required. Call 215-409-6700.