Regional arts and entertainment events

Sunday

Funny stuff The construction of the farce is as exacting as that of the fugue, and in the hands of an expert, the interweaving of bawdy themes, slamming doors, mistaken identity, and ingenues en déshabillé can be pure, zany delight. The venerable Hedgerow Theatre continues its summer tradition of staging a farce by genre master Ray Cooney with One for the Pot, one of the playwright's early works. The play, about an inheritance complicated by a steady stream of crazy characters claiming to be the heir, goes on at 2 p.m. at the company's theater, 64 Rose Valley Rd., Rose Valley, and continues on a Thursday-through-Sunday schedule to Aug. 30. Tickets are $25; $22 for seniors; $12 for students. Call 610-565-4211. . . . Andrew Bergman's comedy credentials are high-quality: He wrote the screenplay for The In-Laws and cowrote Blazing Saddles. His Broadway hit Social Security is a joke-stuffed tale of Manhattan art dealers whose lives are turned topsy-turvy by the sudden arrival of an aged parent (from Mineola!) and her subsequent involvement with an even older artist, their best client. The show goes on at 8 p.m. at Cape May Stage's Shackleton Playhouse, 31 Perry St., Cape May, and continues on a Tuesday-through-Sunday schedule to Aug. 29. Tickets are $35; $25 for seniors; $12.50 for students. Call 609-884-1341.

Monday

Only the lonely Paul Newman was never better than as the alienated, amoral, antihero cowboy in Martin Ritt's 1963 drama Hud, based on Larry McMurtry's modern Western novel. The film screens at 7 p.m. at the County Theater, 20 E. State St., Doylestown. Tickets are $8.75. Call 215-345-6789.

Tuesday

Stirring soul Singer Laura Izibor may have grown up in Dublin, but her musical heart is in Motown, Memphis, and Muscle Shoals. She performs at 8 p.m. at World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. Tickets are $19 and $24. Call 215-222-1400.

Wednesday

Comic geniuses The great Charlie Chaplin bid farewell to his iconic Little Tramp character in the 1936 silent comedy Modern Times, in which a factory worker finds himself slowly driven mad by machine-age demands. The film screens at 7 p.m. at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr. Tickets are $9.50; $6.75 for seniors and students. Call 610-527-4008. . . . Though not often mentioned in the same class as Chaplin, we propose that the Three Stooges are no less iconic and essential with their slapstick short subjects. A quintet including such classics as Boobs in Arms (1940) and What's the Matador? (1942) screens at 7 p.m. at the Ambler Theater, 108 E. Butler Ave., Ambler. Tickets are $8.50. Call 215-345-7855.

Thursday

The game of his life Ernie Davis was a star running back at Syracuse and in 1961 became the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy. He never played pro ball, cut down by leukemia in 1963. The Express, a fine 2008 biopic about Davis, screens at 8 p.m. at Penn's Landing's Great Plaza, Columbus Boulevard and Chestnut Street. Admission is free. Call 215-922-2386.

Get festive Mixing Balkan brass and American funk, New York's Slavic Soul Party 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

Killing joke It's a comedy natural: Amnesia and Attempted Murder by Jill Donnelly and Amy Flanagan begins with a woman pushed down the stairs by a family member and falling into a coma. After she awakens years later with no memory, her loved ones make a video to refresh her recollections - and plead their innocence. Upright Citizens Brigade vet Jill Donnelly stars in the one-woman show, presented by Philly Improv Theater at the Shubin Theatre, 407 Bainbridge St., at 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $10. Call 267-233-1556.

They rock If you want to start a band, it helps to have Josh Homme as your high-school pal. The Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age multi-instru-

mentalist plays drums while his buddy Jesse "The Devil" Hughes provides the vocals and guitars and throws up some tasty shapes for their fractured-rockabilly duo the Eagles of Death Metal. They play at the Theatre of Living Arts, 334 South St., at 9 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $21. Call 215-922-1011.

Star-cross'd The esteemed Bryn Mawr Twilight Concerts take a break from the folk music with Shakespeare in the park: To wit, Romeo and Juliet, age-specifically performed by Theatre Horizon's Young Company of Actors at Gazebo Park, 9 S. Bryn Mawr Ave., Bryn Mawr, at 7 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $10. Call 610-864-4303.

He's the beat Funk legend and double Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Bernie Worrell was a key member of Parliament-Funkadelic and a memorable guest star with Talking Heads. He plays with an impromptu Philly supergroup at Johnny Brenda's, 1201 Frankford Ave., at 9 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $12. Call 215-739-9684.