Do This!
Friday Top of the Ninth Conductor Bramwell Tovey leads the Philadelphia Orchestra in Beethoven's Overture to "Egmont" and Symphony No. 9 in D minor (Op. 125, "Choral") plus Britten's Four Sea Interludes From "Peter Grimes," with soloists Tracy Cox,
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Friday
Top of the Ninth
Conductor Bramwell Tovey leads the Philadelphia Orchestra in Beethoven's Overture to "Egmont" and Symphony No. 9 in D minor (Op. 125, "Choral") plus Britten's Four Sea Interludes From "Peter Grimes," with soloists Tracy Cox, soprano, Virginie Verrez, mezzo, Robert Watson, tenor, and Ryan Speedo Green, bass-baritone. The program goes on at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts, 52d Street and Parkside Avenue. Time: 8 p.m. Tickets: $15 to $35. Information: 215-893-1999 or www.manncenter.org.
Friday & Saturday
Two evenings with . . .
Singers performing standards from Cole Porter to the Beatles and genres from jazz to show tunes on subsequent nights at Act II Playhouse, 56 E. Butler Ave., Ambler.
Lynnie Godfrey, star of stage (Broadway's Eubie) and screen (TV's 704 Houser), performs on Friday. Time: 8 p.m. Tickets: $20; $17 seniors; $10 students.
Jazz singer Katie Eagleson goes on Saturday. Time: 8 p.m. Tickets: $20; $17 seniors; $10 students.
Information: 215-654-0200 or www.act2.org.
Saturday
Punk history
Here's how long Jello Biafra has been around: The formerly shock-comic moniker of the man born Eric Boucher is cobbled together from historical artifacts that youngish fans likely have to look up on Wikipedia (the really young fans just use their bio-implant interfaces, or whatever it is kids do these days). But the onetime frontman for the Dead Kennedys makes sure everybody knows where he's coming from with his current band's name: the Guantanamo School of Medicine. He plays at Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St. Time: 8:30 p.m. Tickets: $18. Information: 215-232-2100 or www.utphilly.com
Sunday
Thieves like us
In Alan Ayckbourn's satirical 1987 farce A Small Family Business, an honest man takes over his father-in-law's business, but soon finds himself disillusioned as he discovers his new family members are crooks looting the enterprise from behind a suburban facade. A film of the National Theatre production screens at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr. Time: 1 p.m. Tickets: $20; $10 students. Information: 610-527-9898 or www.brynmawrfilm.org.