Regional arts and entertainment events
Sunday Comedy club That Sid Caesar was a comedy genius, there's no doubt - but he had a pretty good support staff for Your Show of Shows, including Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Carl Reiner, Larry Gelbart, and Selma Diamond. Simon chronicled his time in t
Sunday
Comedy club That Sid Caesar was a comedy genius, there's no doubt - but he had a pretty good support staff for Your Show of Shows, including Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Carl Reiner, Larry Gelbart, and Selma Diamond. Simon chronicled his time in the writers' room of the 1950s comedy classic in his 1993 play Laughter on the 23rd Floor, which is presented by 1812 Productions in repertory with Our Show of Shows, an homage featuring original and vintage material. The latter show goes on at 2 p.m. Sunday at Plays & Players Theatre, 1714 Delancey Place, and both continue on a varied schedule to May 15. Tickets are $20 to $35. Call 215-592-9560.
Uke rock
With powerhouse vocals and power-chord ukulele, Ellia Bisker performs as
Sweet Soubrette
, playing the dark vaudeville-pop songs from her sensational new album
Days and Nights
at 9 p.m. at
Tritone
, 1508 South St. Tickets are $5. Call 215-545-0475.
Monday
Local heroes
The sound of Philadelphia? As Bob Dylan once said, "It used to go like that, and now it goes like this." Ex-Cordalene singer Jamie Olsen's
North Lawrence Midnight Singers
purvey complex, country-tinged retro-pop gems. They team with the similarly inclined
Sean Lee
of Amnesia Star Hotel at 8 p.m. at
the North Star
, 2639 Poplar St. Admission is free. Call 215-787-0488.
Tuesday
Men at war
Lewis Milestone's 1930 film adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's novel
All Quiet on the Western Front
won an Oscar, and the depiction of German soldiers slogging through the Great War's trenches is both meticulously detailed (the director recruited German veterans living in California as extras) and still powerful in its pre-Code depiction of the wasteful violence of combat. The film screens at 7:30 p.m. at
the Bryn Mawr Film Institute
, 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr. Tickets are $10. Call 610-527-9898.
Choral pop
If you've seen the trailer for
The Social Network
featuring their haunting, ethereal version of Radiohead's "Creep," you've heard the Belgian girls choir
Scala & Kolacny Brothers
. Conducted by Stijn Kolacny and accompanied by pianist Steven Kolacny, the ensemble performs transformative versions of songs by Nirvana, David Bowie, and Rammstein as well as original songs. The choir performs at 8 p.m. at
the Trocadero
, 1003 Arch St. Tickets are $24. Call 215-922-6888.
Wednesday
Chamber music
The adroit
Orion Quartet
is joined by guests
John Dalley
, viola, and
Peter Wiley
, cello, in a recital of works by Stravinksy, Erwin Schulhoff, and Bartok at 8 p.m. at
the Kimmel Center's
Perelman Theater, 300 S. Broad St. Tickets are $23. Call 215-569-8080.
Down under beat
The delightful Australian alt-rock duo
An Horse
plays their intricately constructed downbeat pop anthems as opener for
the Alkaline Trio
at 7:30 p.m. at
the Note
, 142 E. Market St., West Chester. Tickets are $25. Call 800-594-8499.
Take five
Trombonist Curtis Hasselbring's septet
the New Mellow Edwards
somehow mashes together free-jazz aesthetics and garage-band attitude. The combo plays Hasselbring's new piece,
Number Stations
, inspired by the mysterious shortwave radio transmissions of random five-digit numbers, at 8 p.m. at
International House
, 3701 Chestnut St. Tickets are $12. Call 215-387-5125
Thursday
Also appearing
In Tom Stoppard's comedy
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
, the subjects of the title, minor characters in Shakespeare's
Hamlet
, struggle to make sense of their existence while their doom approaches with the play's end. The
Curio Theatre
production goes on at 8 p.m. Thursday at
the Calvary Center,
4740 Baltimore Ave., and continues on a Thursday through Saturday schedule to May 14. Tickets are $10 to $15. Call 215-525-1350.
Friday & Saturday
Building dance
The
Anne-Marie Mulgrew and Dancers Company
performs
Le Dada va Gaga dans 2011
, a site-specific multimedia work, in the rarely seen cathedral-like sanctuary of architects Carrere and Hastings' 1911 building
the Rotunda
, 4014 Walnut St., at 7:11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 3:11 p.m. next Sunday. Tickets are $15; $10 for seniors and students. Call 215-790-5800.
Philly guys
The great
Bill Cosby
performs at
the Scottish Rite Auditorium
, 315 White Horse Pike, Collingswood, at 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $45.50 and $59.50. Call 856-858-1000 . . . One of our faves, late-night sports talker and funny guy
Big Daddy Graham
, teams with his buddy
Spins Nitely
at
the Sellersville Theater
, 24 W. Temple Ave., Sellersville, at 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $21.50 and $26.50. Call 215-257-5808.