Do This!
Friday-Saturday Three into one The troupe Tere O'Connor Dance folds three of the choreographer's cerebral and athletic works into a single hybrid creation at FringeArts, 140 N. Columbus Blvd. Times: 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Tickets: $29. Information: 215-413-1318 or www.fringearts.com.
Friday-Saturday
Three into one
The troupe Tere O'Connor Dance folds three of the choreographer's cerebral and athletic works into a single hybrid creation at FringeArts, 140 N. Columbus Blvd. Times: 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Tickets: $29. Information: 215-413-1318 or www.fringearts.com.
Saturday-Sunday
Clown and fury
In their adaptation Nearly Lear, Edith Tankus and Susanna Hamnett mix classic clowning with a story borrowed from "that guy William Shakespeare," and somehow lend a greater poignancy to the tale of a betrayed monarch wandering in the wilderness with a fool as his only companion. Hamnett stars in the one-woman tour de force at the Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine St. Times: Noon and 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets: $30. Information: 215-925-9914 or www.paintedbride.org.
Saturday
With strings
Violinist Jennifer Koh plays an intriguing program linking sonatas by Bach to contemporary works by Luciano Berio and John Zorn in a solo recital at Bryn Mawr College, 101 N. Merion Ave., Bryn Mawr. Time: 8 p.m. Tickets: $20; $18 seniors; $10 students; $5 under 12. Information: 610-526-5210 or brynmawr.edu/arts/series.html.
Sunday
Spice things up
Spring is here (we think) and what better way to celebrate its arrival (and warm up) than with the annual Fishtown Chili Cook-Off, featuring entries from the pros (including past champions Sketch Burger, Loco Pez, and Johnny Brenda's) and 15 intrepid amateur cooks, plus beer from the Philadelphia Brewing Co. and bread from Metropolitan Bakery. It's all at the Skybox at 2424 Studios, 2424 E. York St. Time: 1 to 4 p.m. Tickets: $10. Information: 215-925-7676 or www.fishtown.org.
Sunday
This night is different
For Seder: The Musical, the night like no other is celebrated by Rabbi Deborah Glanzberg-Krainin with performances by the 11th Hour Theatre Company, storyteller Charlotte Blake Alston, tap dancer Germaine Ingram, violinist Diane Monroe, flutist Chana Datskovsky, and singer/songwriter Chana Rothman at the Gershman Y, Broad and Pine Streets. Time: 5 p.m. Tickets: $54. Information: 215-545-4400 or www.gershmany.org