Regional arts and entertainment events

Sunday

Laughter, not tears When the founder of ComedySportz, Mike Young, died at age 38 in July 2006, a pantheon of comedy talent hosted a benefit. They're doing it again, but with, they say, "Less tribute, more comedy." The second annual Laugh-tastic Sketch-o-Palooza, featuring local stalwarts ComedySportz, Bad Hair Sketch, Rowan and Hastings, Jen Childs, Karen Getz's Suburban Lovesongs, and Tongue & Groove Improv, goes on at 7:30 p.m. at World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. Tickets are $19. Call 215-222-1400.

Monday

You think you've watched it enough - but then it shows up on TV and you get caught up in it all over again, and see something you've missed.

Casablanca

screens at the

County Theater

, 20 E. State St., Doylestown at 7 p.m. Monday and Sept. 3. 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 and next Sunday (tickets are $8; call 215-345-7855).

Tuesday

Boston's hyperactive

Snappy Dance Theater

blends gymnastics, circus tricks, martial arts and voice into distinctive contemporary dance works. They perform at 7:30 p.m. at

Longwood Gardens

, Route 1, Kennett Square. Tickets are $10 (includes Gardens admission); $6 for ages 16 to 20; $2 for ages 6 to 15; under 6 free. Call 610-388-1000.

Wednesday

The

Philadelphia Live Arts Festival

gets underway with the estimable

Pig Iron Theatre Company

taking on Shakespeare.

Isabella

revamps the Bard's comedy

Measure for Measure

, setting it in a morgue as a true dance of the dead. The show goes on at the

Ice Box Projects Space

, 140 N. American St., at 7 p.m. Wednesday through next Sunday and Sept. 6 and 7; 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sept. 8; 7 p.m. Sept. 9 and 11 through 14; and 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sept. 15. Tickets are $20. Call 215-413-1318.

Thursday

We love

Happy Feet

. In fact, we'll go so far as to say that it contains a highlight (when the hero dances his way into the heroine's heart to a medley of pop hits) that can stand with such pinnacles of movie musicals as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' turn in "Cheek to Cheek" in

Top Hat

or Gene Kelly dancing to the title tune in

Singin' in the Rain

. The film screens at 6 p.m. at

Penn's Landing's

Great Plaza, Columbus Boulevard and Market Street. Admission is free. Call 215-922-2386.

Two boundary-stretching theater works: In

Gatz

, the Elevator Repair Service theater troupe presents a man in an office reading F. Scott Fitzgerald's

The Great Gatsby

, as the novel seeps into his life. The show goes on in two parts at the Arts Bank, 601 S. Broad St., with part 1 at 8 p.m. Thursday and part 2 at 8 p.m. Friday, and parts 1 and 2 at 4 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. next Sunday. Tickets are $35 for two-part shows; $20 per part. Call 215-413-1318. . . .

Flamingo/Winnebago

teams

Thaddeus Phillips

and

Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental

with New Mexico Gypsy jazz band

Le Chat Lunatique

in a tale of two men on a cross-country journey. The show goes on at the

Painted Bride Art Center

, 230 Vine St., at 9:30 p.m. Thursday through Sept. 3, and 6 p.m. Sept. 6 through 8. Tickets are $20. Call 215-413-1318.

At their best, the hip-hop duo

Camp Lo

fractures pop-culture references from Cab Calloway to Huggy Bear to

Coolie High

into a smart, slangy mix over an easy-flow beat. Out of sight for a while, they're back to play at 9 p.m. at the

Trocadero

, 10th and Arch Streets. Tickets are $20. Call 215-922-5483.

Friday & Saturday

Festival highlights (call 215-413-1318):

Charlotte Vanden Eynde and Kurt Vandendriessche's

exploration of the body,

MAP ME

, at the

Painted Bride Art Center

, 230 Vine St., at 6 p.m. Friday through next Sunday. Tickets are $15. . . . Merian Soto Performance Practice's exploration of nature,

States of Gravity & Light #2

, at

Christ Church Neighborhood House

, 20 N. American St., at 7 p.m. Friday through next Sunday. Tickets are $15. . . . Devynn Emory's exploration of the animal in us,

BEAST

at

Christ Church Neighborhood House

, 20 N. American St., at 9:30 p.m. Friday through next Sunday. Tickets are $15.

Highlights of the

Philly Fringe

(call 215-413-1318):

Kinetic Architecture

and

Olive Prince Dance

in

Taboo

at the

Schuylkill Gallery

, Space 3112, 3510 Scotts Lane, at 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and Sept. 7 and 8. Tickets are $10. . . . Juggler

Meike Fromm

in

Voyage d'une jongleuse

at the

Society Hill Playhouse

, 507 S. Eighth St., at 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $15. . . .

Chad Wanzek

in

The Man Without Any Will

, a performance piece in which he wanders the city for eight hours guided by a Magic 8-Ball, starting at

City Hall

, Broad and Market Streets, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, next Sunday and Sept. 8 and 9. Admission is free.

Drummer

Marlon Simon

, leader of the mighty

Nagual Spirits

, directs a thoughtful, swinging exploration through Latin jazz on the dynamite new CD

In Case You Missed It

. They play at

Chris' Jazz Cafe

, 1421 Sansom St., at 8 and 10 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $15. Call 215-568-3131.