Regional arts and entertainment events

Sunday

French fates In Molière's 1662 comedy

The School for Wives

, an aging bachelor sees his scheme to keep his intended bride ignorant and virtuous unravel into frustration. The

Lantern Theater Company

production goes on at 2 p.m. today at

St. Stephen's Theater

, 10th and Ludlow Sts., and continues with shows at 7 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, and 2 p.m. next Sunday. Tickets are $15 to $35. Call 215-829-0395. . . . In Michael Hollinger's comedy

An Empty Plate in the Cafe du Grand Boeuf

, set in Paris 1961, a wealthy expatriate gourmand and owner of his own private restaurant resolves to starve to death. The show goes on at 2 and 7 p.m. today at the

Arden Theatre Company

, 40 N. Second St., and continues on a Tuesday-

through-

Sunday schedule to Dec. 9. Tickets are $27 to $45. Call 215-922-1122.

Monday

Objects of art The exhibition

Vacant

features tape sketches of Louis XV furniture (with price-tag titles) by

Mark Khaisman

, and photographs of the once-luxurious, then abandoned, soon to be luxurious again Divine Lorraine Hotel by

Jeffrey Stockbridge

. The show is at

the Center for Emerging Visual Artists

in the Barclay, Suite 3A, 237 S. 18th St., to Dec. 13. Call 215-546-7775.

Hoppy rides again In more than 60 films from 1935 to 1948, Hopalong Cassidy was one of the great celluloid cowboys, always on the side of the good and pure - and always portrayed by William Boyd, who built an empire on the role. Film historian Lou DiCrescenzo presents the 1942 Hoppy adventure

Lost Canyon

at 7 p.m. at the

County Theater

, 20 E. State St., Doylestown. Tickets are $7.75; $5.75 for seniors and students. Call 215-345-6789.

Tuesday

On with the show! A send-up of old-time musicals,

The Drowsy Chaperone

has a delightful conceit: A Broadway connoisseur has a 1920s show come to life in his apartment as he plays an original cast recording. The show goes on at the

Academy of Music

, Broad and Locust Streets, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, and 1 and 6:30 p.m. next Sunday. Tickets are $25 to $76.50. Call 215-731-3333.

Wednesday

The biggest generation Author and former NBC anchor

Tom Brokaw

follows his best-seller

The Greatest Generation

with

Boom! Personal Reflections on the Sixties and Today

, a survey of the baby boomers and the turbulent decades whose aftershocks continue to echo in our own time. He discusses his work with NBC News correspondent

Andrea Mitchell

at 6:30 p.m. at the

National Constitution Center

, 525 Arch St. Tickets are $15; reservations required. Call 215-409-6700.

She's back Protean songstress

Erin McKeown

plays at 8:30 p.m. at the

Tin Angel

, 50 S. Second St. Tickets are $20. Call 215-928-0770.

Thursday

Top tenor Most recently seen in a rich performance as the Duke in the Opera Company of Philadelphia's production of

Rigoletto

, the graceful tenor

Matthew Polenzani

returns to perform a recital of works by Schubert, Beethoven, Liszt, Britten and Reynaldo Hahn at 8 p.m. at the

Kimmel Center's

Perelman Theater, Broad and Spruce Streets, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $22.50; $10 for students. Call 215-569-8080.

Love and heartbreak The Curtis Opera Theatre presents a double bill of Poulenc's one-act opera

La Voix humaine

with either Haydn's mythic cantata

Arianna a Naxos

or Vivaldi's pastoral cantata

Cessate, omai cessate

. Performances at the

Curtis Institute of Music

, 1726 Locust St., are at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, and 2:30 p.m. Saturday and next Sunday for Poulenc and Haydn; and at 8 p.m. Saturday and next Sunday for Poulenc and Vivaldi. Tickets are $15. Call 215-893-7902.

Friday & Saturday

Jazz men Acclaimed pianist and singer

Andy Bey

is as comfortable with pop as with bebop, shifting easily between Duke Ellington and Sting. He plays at

Montgomery County Community College's

Science Center Theater, 340 DeKalb Pike, Blue Bell, at 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $22; $18 for seniors and students. Call 215-641-6518. . . . Afro-Cuban percussionist

Marlon Simon

augments his

Nagual Spirits

sextet with a

bata

drum section and a string quartet for his shows at the

Painted Bride Art Center

, 230 Vine St., at 7 and 9 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $25. Call 215-925-9914.

Sounds of Stravinsky Conductor Valery Gergiev leads the Kirov Orchestra in

The Rite of Spring

and the complete

Firebird

at the

Kimmel Center's

Verizon Hall, Broad and Spruce Streets, at 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $33 to $115. Call 215-893-1999.

Food without fear Adventurer and chef

Anthony Bourdain

is the tough guy of cuisine, unafraid to travel to the ends of the Earth and eat whatever is on the menu there. He discusses his new book

No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach

at the

Free Library's

Montgomery Auditorium, 19th and Vine Streets, at 2 p.m. Saturday. Admission is free. Call 215-567-4341.