Regional arts and entertainment events

Sunday

Chamber music The intense pianist Mimi Solomon performs works by Charles Ives and and Robert Schumann at 2:30 p.m. at Eastern University's McInnis Auditorium, 1300 Eagle Rd., St. Davids. Tickets are $18; $12 for seniors; students admitted free. Call 610-649-2517. . . . The Johannes Quartet plays an intriguing recital of works by Mozart, György Kurtag, and Anton Webern at 3 p.m. at the American Philosophical Society, 427 Chestnut St. Tickets are $23; $10 for students. Call 215-569-8080. . . . The Network for New Music performs works by Shih-Hui Chen, Chou Wen-Chung, Bright Sheng, and Huang Ruo at 7:30 p.m. at Settlement Music School's Curtis Branch, 416 Queen St. Tickets are $25; $20 for seniors; $15 for students. Call 215-848-7647.

On the beat Postmodern tap-dance virtuoso Savion Glover performs his "sound as dance style" in a new flamenco-flavored show at 3 p.m. at the Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall, 300 S. Broad St. Tickets are $33 to $65. Call 215-893-1999.

Monday

Young love Valentine's Day is a good time to think about star-cross'd love and it doesn't get any more star-cross'd than this: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, in a back-to-basics performance by London's Globe Theatre (complete with groundlings!). A high-definition broadcast of the production screens at 7:30 p.m. at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr. Tickets are $25. Call 610-527-4008.

Tuesday

Picture this Photographer and installation artist Gabriel Martinez has selected like-minded artists for his juried show, Truth or Dare, including Charmaine Caire and her delightfully fanciful color tableaux made from old toys, Matthew Derezinski and his textured abstract prints, and Zelda Zinn and her distinctive narrative images. The show is at NEXUS/Foundation for Today's Art, Crane Arts Building, Suite 102, 1400 N. American St., to March 4. Admission is free. Call 215-684-1946.

Wednesday

Cruel views The French actor, writer and literary theorist Antonin Artaud is best known for his concept of a "theater of cruelty" that would confront and disturb the audience and break down stagecraft and social conventions. The production Artaud Unbound presents a quartet of the avant-garde artist's previously unstaged works - two screenplays, a violently surrealist and unproduced play, and a long-banned radio work written, after a decade of electroshock therapy, just before his death in 1948. The production by EgoPo Classic Theater goes on at the Latvian Society, 531 N. Seventh St., at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, 5 and 8 p.m. Saturday, and 5 and 8 p.m. next Sunday. Tickets are $15 to $30. Call 1-800-595-4849.

From Olympia to Harare Born in Washington state and raised there and in Zimbabwe, the singer Chiwoniso mixes pop elements into a traditional sound driven by the mbira, a kind of thumb piano. She performs at 7:30 p.m. at Crossroads Music, 801 S. 48th St. Tickets are $10 to $30. Call 215-729-1028.

Thursday

Poetry and prose The fascinating poet and memoirist Eleni Sikelianos uses collage effects and a jazzy, musical ear for language in her work. She reads at 6 p.m. at Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk. Admission is free. Call 215-746-7636. . . . The novelist Wesley Stace might be better known as folk-pop singer John Wesley Harding, but the same craft he brings to his songs is very much in evidence in his books. He reads from his latest, the thriller Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer, with musical accompaniment by Daniel Felsenfeld, at 7 p.m. at St. Joseph's University's Campion Student Center, 5600 City Ave. Admission is free. Call 610-660-1882.

That other guy He's been on Saturday Night Live and The Daily Show and in the cracked cop comedy The Other Guys, all pretty much in support roles, but we have a feeling that the hysterically stoic Rob Riggle is due for a breakout any minute now. He performs at Helium Comedy Club, 2031 Sansom St. at 8 p.m. Thursday, 8 and 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 7:30 p.m. next Sunday. Tickets are $20 to $32. Call 215-496-9001.

Sound and vision Combining modern dance and chamber pop,

As the Eyes of the Seahorse

is a collaborative work by the

Nichole Canuso Dance Company

and the indie-pop combo

the Mural and the Mint

in which Canuso's choreography interprets Michael Kiley's music. The work is presented at

the Maas Building

, 1325 N. Randolph St., at 7:30 p.m. Friday and 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $15. Call 215-413-9083.

Old school, still cool Hip-hop legends Salt N Pepa, Naughty by Nature, Doug E. Fresh, Kool Moe Dee, and Kurtis Blow team up at the Liacouras Center, 1776 N. Broad St., at 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $42.50 to $73. Call 1-800-298-4200.