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Regional arts and entertainment events

Sunday Busy man Broadway star (The Pajama Game), film actor (Bug) and musician (Oh, My Nola) Harry Connick Jr. performs with his big band at 7:30 p.m. at the Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall, Broad and Spruce Streets. Tickets are $48 to $93. Call 215-893-1999.

Helen Oyeyemi reads from her second novel, "The Opposite House," on Tuesday at the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Helen Oyeyemi reads from her second novel, "The Opposite House," on Tuesday at the Free Library of Philadelphia.Read more

Sunday

Busy man Broadway star (The Pajama Game), film actor (Bug) and musician (Oh, My Nola) Harry Connick Jr. performs with his big band at 7:30 p.m. at the Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall, Broad and Spruce Streets. Tickets are $48 to $93. Call 215-893-1999.

Monday

Bogie and Bacall The backlot story is more famous than the plot for Howard Hawks' To Have and Have Not, a 1944 war drama set in the Caribbean and very loosely based on an Ernest Hemingway novel. Besides the famed offscreen romance kindled between stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, there's the curiosity of a script by William Faulkner. The film screens at 7 p.m. at the County Theater, 20 E. State St., Doylestown. Tickets are $8.50. Call 215-345-6789. The film also screens at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 W Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, at 7 p.m. Wednesday (tickets are $8.75; call 610-527-9898), and at the Ambler Theater, 108 E Butler Ave., Ambler, at 7 p.m. Thursday (tickets are $8; call 215-345-7855).

Tuesday

Rising talent Nigerian-born British novelist Helen Oyeyemi was acclaimed for her first novel, The Icarus Girl, a 2005 coming-of-age story with supernatural overtones, which she wrote while still in her teens. Oyeyemi's second novel, The Opposite House, is about two women immigrants in London with mystical links to their homelands. She reads at 7 p.m. at the Free Library of Philadelphia, 1901 Vine St. Admission is free. Call 215-567-4341.

A bit of bubbly The word "quirky" doesn't begin to cover Pink Martini, the Oregon orchestra founded by Harvard grads to play a frothy mix of multilingual, multicultural champagne pop. The ensemble, fronted by incandescent singer China Forbes, plays at 7:30 p.m. at the Keswick Theatre, Easton Road and Keswick Avenue, Glenside. Tickets are $29 and $35. Call 215-572-7650.

Under the sea The Independence Seaport Museum opens its series of outdoor screenings of submarine movies with The Enemy Below, a taut 1958 thriller about a WWII duel between an American destroyer and a German U-boat. The film screens at 9 p.m. at the museum, 211 S. Columbus Blvd. Tickets are $4. Call 215-925-5439.

Wednesday

Dance beat The estimable hip-hop modern dance ensemble Rennie Harris Puremovement performs at the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater, Broad and Spruce Streets, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday through Friday. Tickets are $34 and $46. Call 215-893-1999.

Thursday

Beethoven's nine Conductor Rossen Milanov leads the Philadelphia Orchestra through selected movements of Beethoven's nine symphonies at 7 p.m. at the Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall, Broad and Spruce Streets. Tickets are $10 to $80. Call 215-893-1999.

Friday & Saturday

Old-time music Known for putting a new spin on old tunes (his take on Nelson Eddy's "When I Grow Too Old to Dream" is especially fine), Howard Fishman reaches back to another era's retro-pop, reinterpreting The Basement Tapes, Bob Dylan and the Band's 1967 house-party jam. Fishman plays Dylan at World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St., at 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $25. Call 215-222-1400. (And, as fate would have it, Bob Dylan himself plays at the Borgata Event Center, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, at 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $97 and $137. Call 866-900-4849.)

Wine and song The Fairmount String Quartet plays at Crossing Vineyards, 1853 Wrightstown Rd., Washington Crossing, at 7 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $10. Call 215-493-6500.

Northern climes Photographer John Welsh's exhibition Images of Iceland opens at Montgomery County Community College, 340 DeKalb Pike, Blue Bell, on Saturday and runs to Aug. 11. Admission is free. Call 215-641-6359.

Jazz legacy Featuring a rhythm section of bassist Felix Pastorius and drummer Julius Pastorius (sons of the great bass player Jaco), the Way of the Groove has a cool, cerebral sound. They play at Chris' Jazz Cafe, 1421 Sansom St., at 8 and 10 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $15. Call 215-568-3131.