Regional arts and entertainment events
Sunday Here comes the knight Kira Obolensky's The Return of Don Quixote is a free adaptation of Don Quixote of La Mancha, the second part of Miguel de Cervantes' tale, in which the retired errant gentleman is forced by the publication of his adventures to retrace and reconsider his path. The show goes on at 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday at People's Light & Theatre Company,
Sunday
Here comes the knight Kira Obolensky's The Return of Don Quixote is a free adaptation of Don Quixote of La Mancha, the second part of Miguel de Cervantes' tale, in which the retired errant gentleman is forced by the publication of his adventures to retrace and reconsider his path. The show goes on at 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday at People's Light & Theatre Company,
39 Conestoga Rd., Malvern, and continues on a Tuesday-through- Sunday schedule to Oct. 16. Tickets are $25 to $45. Call 610-644-3500.
Happy anniversary The celebration of the five-year mark for the ETC. Performance Series features a selection of greatest hits, with Illstyles & Peace Productions, Itola Byrd, idRatherbehere, Marcus Franklin, Men On Tap, Tap Team Two, Underground DanceWorks (UDW), SHARP Dance Company, and Versatile Dance Company at 8 p.m. at the Community Education Center, 3500 Lancaster Ave. Tickets are $10 general; $8 students and seniors.
Call 215-387-1911.
Monday
Tough guy With Jack Reacher, the stoic, hulking ex-MP drifter who features in his thrillers, author Lee Child has created an enduring icon of the genre. His latest in the series, The Affair, is a prequel to his first, 1997's Killing Floor. He reads from his work at 7:30 p.m. at the Free Library, 1901 Vine St. Admission
is free. Call 215-5678-4341.
Tuesday
Visiting the neighbors For a "neighborhood concert," conductor Cristian Macelaru leads the Philadelphia Orchestra in works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Smetana, Gershwin, Grieg, and Rossini at Urban Outfitters Headquarters, Building 543, the Navy Yard, 5000 S. Broad St. Admission is free. Call 215-893-1999.
Wednesday
Examined lives Writer Nathan Englander won a PEN/Malamud award for his first book, For Relief of Unbearable Urges, a collection of stories about Orthodox Jews that earned justifiable comparisons to Isaac Bashevis Singer, and acclaim for his second, The Ministry of Special Cases, a novel about Argentina's dictatorship and desaparecidos. He reads from his work at 7:30 p.m. at Bryn Mawr College's McPherson Auditorium, 101 N. Merion Ave., Bryn Mawr. Admission is free.
Call 610-526-5210.
Agit prop Written when he was still known as Leroi Jones, Amiri Baraka's 1964 play The Slave, in which a black revolutionary visits his white ex-wife in the midst of a riot, is an angry, compelling example of
the theater of cruelty. Norristown's Iron Age Theatre performs the work at the Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St., at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday. Tickets are $20.
Call 610-279-1013.
Jazz time Scintillating singer Barbara Montgomery performs with her trio at 7:30 p.m. at Kennett Flash, 102 Sycamore Alley, Kennett Square. Tickets are $10; $5 students.
Call 215-517-8337.
Thursday
Love hurts The Curtis Opera Theater performs a pair on the theme: Peter Maxwell Davies' 1974 Miss Donnithorne's Maggot, about a reclusive jilted bride, and Handel's cantata Apollo and Daphne, a tale
of unrequited love. The double bill goes on at the Curtis Opera Studio, 1726 Locust St., at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through next Sunday. Tickets are $35. Call 215-893-7902.
Lift every voice The sensational alt-gospel quintet Ollabelle performs at 7:30 p.m. at World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. Tickets are $22 and $32. Call 215-222-1400.
Friday & Saturday
Around the world In Iciar Bollain's drama
Tambien la Lluvia (Even the Rain)
, a film crew in Bolivia to make a movie about the conquistadors find themselves in the middle of a contemporary revolt over water rights. The film screens at the Peace Center of Delaware County, 1001 Old Sproul Rd., Springfield, at 7 p.m. Friday. Admission is free. Call 610-544-1818. . . . Jean Renoir's 1951 drama
The River
is a coming-of-age tale in which three young women learn about love and loss in Bengal. The film screens at
International House
, 3701 Chestnut St., at 7 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $9; $7 seniors and students. Call 215-387-5125.
Rockin' stroll Chase and Laura had a fight, about nothing and everything - but mostly, it seemed, about the sudden way two decades had passed by without their noticing and rubbed away what seemed special about their being together. They were sitting silently in the little coffee shop, alone together, feeling blank and unhip and old, when the barista changed the music, and there was jangly guitars and Evan Dando singing "He kinda shoulda woulda loved her if he could've," and they were back on the quad, with Chase long-haired and Laura winsome, and they looked at each other, smiling, remembering, and it was OK again. The Lemonheads play their 1992 indie classic It's a Shame About Ray in its entirety at the North Star, 2639 Poplar St., at 9 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $25. Call 215-787-0488.