7Days: Regional arts and entertainment, by Michael Harrington

Sunday

Light and matter Peter Parnell's QED looks at the life of the irrepressible Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman. The Lantern Theater Company production goes on at 2 p.m. Sunday at St. Stephen's Theater, 10th & Ludlow Streets, and continues on a Wednesday-through- Sunday schedule to Dec. 14 Tickets are $30 to $39. Call 215-829-0395

Monday

Hunter and hunted Acclaimed thriller writer David Baldacci returns to one of his most compelling characters, the military criminal investigator John Puller, with a third volume in the series. In The Escape, Puller pursues his brother, a convicted traitor broken out of prison, and finds his allegiances torn. Baldacci reads from his work at 7:30 p.m. at the Free Library, 1901 Vine St. Admission is free. Call 215-567-4341.

Tuesday

Happy 100th Since The Inquirer is 185 years old, it's always nice to welcome a youngster to the club: The New Republic is celebrating its 100th anniversary with an anthology, Insurrections of the Mind: 100 Years of Politics and Culture in America, featuring selections culled from its pages by writers including Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, Pauline Kael, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, D.H. Lawrence, John Maynard Keynes, Langston Hughes, John Updike, and Zadie Smith. Editor Franklin Foer discusses the book and his magazine's history at 6:30 p.m. at the National Constitution Center, 525 Arch St. Admission is free; reservations required. Call 215-409-6700.

Straight outta Stockholm Swedish rapper Jonatan Leandoer Håstad, who does business as Yung Lean, deconstructs hip-hop's rough subjects and American pop culture in a monotone over melancholy beats - it verges on parody, but ends up reflecting us in a fractured form that reveals a curdled truth. The kid from the Södermalm 'hood performs with his crew, Sad Boys, at 8 p.m. at Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St. Tickets are $20. Call 215-232-2100.

Wednesday

Country girl Four-time CMA female vocalist of the year Martina McBride sings at 7:30 p.m. at the Keswick Theatre, Easton Road and Keswick Avenue, Glenside. Tickets are $54 to $75. Call 215-572-7650.

Big Easy beat The sensational bassist Ed Wise brings his New Orleans Jazz Band back to the area at 7:30 p.m. at the Cheltenham Center for the Arts, 439 Ashbourne Rd., Cheltenham. Tickets are $10; $5 for students. Call 215-517-8337.

Thursday

Dance trio The exuberant Parsons Dance performs works by choreographers David Parsons, Trey McIntrye, and Natalie Lomonte at the Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut St., at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday, and 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $20 to $60. Call 215-898-3900.

Friday & Saturday

Point of view The engaging Camille A. Brown & Dancers present the choreographer's look at the politics of pleasure and contemporary notions of beauty for black women, at Bryn Mawr College's Goodhart Hall, 101 N. Merion Ave., Bryn Mawr, at 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $20; $18 for seniors; $10 for students. Call 610-526-5210.

With strings Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero leads the Curtis Chamber Orchestra in Leonard Bernstein's superb concerto Serenade After Plato's "Symposium" with solo violinist Bella Hristova, plus works by Copland, Mahler, and Stravinsky, at the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater, Broad and Spruce Streets, at 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $24, Call 215-569-8080.

All downhill Filmmaker Warren Miller presents his latest epic skiing and snowboarding documentary, No Turning Back, with scenes from Japan, the Swiss Alps, Montana, France, and Norway, at Conestoga High School, 200 Irish Rd., Berwyn, at 7 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $22; $19 for students. Call 215-923-9161.