Do This!

Love and death

Federico García Lorca's 1932 revenge tragedy Blood Wedding, a tale of a deadly vendetta between two families, is staged by Philadelphia Artists' Collective and the Co-Op Theatre Company at Drexel University's Mandell Theater, 3201 Chestnut St. Times: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: $25. Information: 215-895-2000 or www.philartistscollective.org.

Love supreme

The Academy of Vocal Arts performs Rossini's delightful L'italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers), a story of harems, corsairs, shipwrecks, and mistaken identity on the way to true love, at Central Bucks South, Folly and Bristol Roads, Warrington. Time: 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $25 to $50. Information: 215-735-1685 or AVAOpera.com.

Great adventure

One of the finest fantasy films of all time, producer Alexander Korda's The Thief of Bagdad was a sensation in war-torn 1940, with its Technicolor and special effects such as a flying carpet, giant spider, and big blue genie. The tale of the evil vizier Jaffar and his attempts to keep a prince apart from his lady love may seem familiar from the later Disney version, but Korda did it better. The film screens at International House, 3701 Chestnut St. Time: 2 p.m. Tickets: $5. Information: 215-387-5125 or http://ihousephilly.org.

Country girl

Sweet-voiced singer-songwriter Heather Maloney plays at Burlap and Bean Coffee, 204 S. Newtown Street Road, Newtown Square. Time:

1 8 p.m. Tickets: $15. Information: 484-427-4547 or http://www.burlapandbean.com.

The real thing

Based on River Phoenix's underrated and virtually unseen last film, Dogfight, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul turn the story of an unlikely 1963 romance between a waitress and a callow GI bound for Vietnam into a musical. The 11th Hour Theatre Company production goes on at the Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St. Times: 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday, Tickets: $18 and $25. Information: 267-987-9865 or http://www.11thhourtheatrecompany.org.