Regional arts and entertainment events

Sunday

Classics three Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Kidnapped tells of a young nobleman who is robbed of his inheritance and sold into indentured servitude by his scheming uncle, beginning an adventure that includes a mutiny at sea and an uprising in the Scottish highlands. Ernie Joselovitz's adaptation of the tale goes on at 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday at the People's Light and Theatre Company, 39 Conestoga Rd., Malvern, and continues on a Thursday-through-Sunday schedule to Feb. 6. Tickets are $31; $20 for ages 12 and younger. Call 610-644-3500. . . . Tennessee Williams' story of a dysfunctional Southern family, The Glass Menagerie, goes on at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Walnut Street Theatre's Independence Studio on 3, 825 Walnut St., and continues on a Tuesday-

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Sunday schedule to Feb. 6. Tickets are $30. Call 215-574-3550. . . . In Stephen Jeffreys' adaptation, a quartet of actors play the teeming population of Charles Dickens' Hard Times, a sprawling look at social and economic inequality in a Victorian mill town. The show goes on at 6 p.m. Sunday at Allens Lane Art Center, 601 W. Allens lane, and continues with shows at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 6 p.m. next Sunday, and 8 p.m. Feb. 4 and 5. Tickets are $18. Call 215-248-0546.

Rising star Baritone Elliot Madore performs a recital of works by Manuel de Falla, Schubert, Ravel, Erich Korngold, and Richard Rodgers at 3 p.m. at the Curtis Institute of Music's Field Concert Hall, 1726 Locust St. Tickets are $28. Call 215-893-7902.

Monday

Things seen Artist Adrienne Gale uses eggs, roots, seeds, and nests in her installations, prints, and handmade books, inherently positing the fragility of the created world. An exhibition of her works is at the University City Arts League, 4226 Spruce St., to Feb. 4. Admission is free. Call 215-382-7811.

Pure pop, now people Sing-alongs and impromptu covers are promised when Lemonheads front man Evan Dando and sublime pop contrarian Juliana Hatfield team up at 8 p.m. at the World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. Tickets are $28 and $38. Call 215-222-1400.

Tuesday

Triple threat Writer Brad Meltzer won an Eisner Award for his work on Justice League of America, co-created the TV show Jack & Bobby, and is the author of several best-selling political thrillers. He reads from his latest, The Inner Circle, about a worker at the National Archives who becomes entangled in a conspiracy that could reach the White House, at 7:30 p.m. at the Free Library, 1901 Vine St. Admission is free. Call 215-567-4341.

Wednesday

Modern sounds Conductor Matthias Pintscher leads the contemporary music ensemble Curtis 20/21 in his own Songs From Solomon's Garden, plus works by Stravinsky, Hans Werner Henze, and Ravel, at 8 p.m. at the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater, 300 S. Broad St. Tickets are $23. Call 215-569-8080.

Thursday

Piano plus Conductor Jonathan Nott leads the Philadelphia Orchestra in Bartok's valedictory Piano Concerto No. 3, with soloist Andreas Haefliger, plus works by Mozart and Schubert, at the Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall, 300 S. Broad St., at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday. Tickets are $20 to $130. Call 215-893-1999.

Turn it up You could call what David Berkeley does folk-pop, but it's really a kind of musical alchemy - a profound sensibility that's somehow radio-ready. He plays finely crafted songs off his sensational new album Some Kind of Cure at 7:30 p.m. at the Tin Angel, 20 S. Second St. Tickets are $12. Call 215-38-0770.

Music of the spirit Free-jazz pioneer

Amina Claudine Myers

got her start with church choirs before moving on to renown as a pianist and arranger connected with the first wave of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians in Chicago in the 1960s. She's played with the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Sonny Stitt, and Lester Bowie, among others. In a truly one-of-a-kind performance, Myers plays the 1937 Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ at

St. Mark's Church

, 1625 Locust St., at 8 p.m. Friday. Admission is free. Call 215-735-1416.

A pop life story It was the summer of 1966 and Olaf was more interested in model rockets than rock-and-roll - until that day when his older sister and her gang of seventh-grade girls set up outside the window of his room while he was painstakingly cutting a set of balsa wood tailfins.

Just as the giggling and blare of the transistor radio were becoming too much to bear, he heard it: "I saw her walking on down the line, you know I saw her for the very first time." And instantly, "Hanky Panky" had hooked him and led him to that perfect pop universe, where everything goes Ahhh! just like the beginning of "Crimson and Clover."

The great Tommy James and the Shondells play at the Scottish Rite Auditorium, 315 White Horse Pike, Collingswood, at 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $29.50 and $39.50. Call 1-800-745-3000.