Regional arts and entertainment events

Sunday

Big concert Looking for some holiday grooving outdoors at the right price? Try the Camden Backyard BBQ, headlined by New Orleans funksters Galactic (featuring Living Colour's Corey Glover on vocals), Texas blues outfit Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, supergroup Royal Southern Brotherhood (with Cyrill Neville, Devon Allman, and Mike Zito), soul singer Mia Borders, and blues-rockers 61 North. The fourth annual event goes on from 1 to 10:30 p.m. Sunday at Wiggins Waterfront Park, Mickle Boulevard at the waterfront, Camden. Admission is free. Call 1-866-226-3362.

Monday

Primitive pop Former Sun City Girls bassist Alan Bishop now works solo under the moniker Alvarius B. He plays his lo-fi, home-brewed chamber rock at Johnny Brenda's, 1201 Frankford Ave. Tickets are $10. Call 215-739-9684.

Tuesday

Boy meets girl, but . . . What can you say about a 1970 best-selling tearjerker turned hit movie about a boy and a girl and their tragic, doomed love? How about: Now, it's a musical. Howard Goodall and Stephen Clark's Love Story opens with a performance at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Walnut Street Theatre, 825 Walnut St., and continues on a Tuesday-through-

Sunday schedule to Oct. 21. Tickets are $10-$95. Call 215-574-3550.

Wednesday

Thrash it out The excellent local surf-punk quintet Vintage Kicks jumps onstage at 8 p.m. at the Trocadero Balcony, 1003 Arch St. Tickets are $8. Call 215-922-6888.

Thursday

Three greats The Philly Fringe features works by a trio of challenging playwrights (call 215-413-1318): The troupe Homunculus, Inc. performs an "immersive adaptation" of August Strindberg's Ghost Sonata, about an idealistic student's disillusioned visit with a miserable family, at 7 p.m. Thursday at PhilaMOCA, 531 N. 12th St., and continues on a varied schedule to Sept. 16. Tickets are $10. . . . The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium presents Witold Gombrowicz's Ivona, Princess of Burgundia, a fractured fairy tale about a prince and his less-than-idyllic romance with an awkward girl, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Walnut Street Theatre's Studio 5, 825 Walnut St., and continues on a Tuesday-through-Sunday schedule to Sept. 23. Tickets are $15 to $20. . . . Jean Genet's The Maids, in which two servants fantasize the murder of their employer, is performed by the Kicking Mule Theatre Company at the Walnut Street Theatre's Independence Studio on 3, 825 Walnut St., at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, and 3 p.m. next Sunday. Tickets are $15.

Fringe dance Terpsichorean treats (call 215-413-1318):

Ellie Goudie-Averill and Pamela Vail

present multimedia works at the

Community Education Center

, 3500 Lancaster Ave., at 6 p.m. Friday and 4 and 8 p.m. Saturday. . . .

The Nichole Canuso Dance Company

performs at

the American Philosophical Society

, 104 S. Fifth St., at 6:30 p.m. Friday and 6 p.m. Sept. 19 and 21. Tickets are $12. . . .

Rachel Oliver and Kate Speer's

work

Sticks and Stones

goes on at

Mascher Space Co-Op

, 155 Cecil B. Moore Ave., at 7:30 p.m. Friday and 4 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $15. . . .

Project Moshen

presents a showcase at

Koresh Dance Studio

, 2020 Chestnut St., at 8 p.m. Saturday and 7 p.m. next Sunday. Tickets are $15.

Live Arts onstage The Live Arts Festival returns with typically intrepid drama (call 215-413-1318): In 27, the experimental performance ensemble New Paradise Laboratories looks at the intense inconsistencies of twentysomethings. The show opens at Plays and Players Theatre, 1714 Delancey Place, with a show at 8 p.m. Friday, and continues on a Wednesday-through-

Sunday schedule to Sept. 16. Tickets are $18 to $35. . . . Bang, a clown-theater comedy of feminine desire, features the trio of Charlotte Ford, Lee Etzold, and Sarah Sanford. The show goes on at Christ Church Neighborhood House, 20 N. American St., at 8 p.m. Friday, 3 and 8 p.m. Saturday, 6 p.m. next Sunday, and 8 p.m. Sept. 10 to 12. Tickets are $18 to $35. . . . Playwright and choreographer Toshiki Okada uses disjunctive colloquial speech and disjointed movement to convey a hyperactive contemporary anomie. He teams with the Pig Iron Theatre Company for his dystopian fantasy Zero Cost House, set amid Japan's 2011 natural and nuclear disasters. The show opens at the Arts Bank, 601 S. Broad st., with a show at 8 p.m. Saturday and continues on a Tuesday-through-

Sunday schedule to Sept. 22. Tickets are $18 to $35.

Films by Akomfrah Born in Ghana and raised in London, John Akomfrah is a distinctive and influential filmmaker. International House, 3701 Chestnut Street, presents a retrospective: a double bill of documentaries - 1997's The Last Angel of History, which connects science fiction and Pan-African culture, and 1993's Seven Songs for Malcolm X, a biography of the civil rights leader - screens at 7 p.m. Friday. The Nine Muses, his 2010 collage linking Homer's Odyssey and the African diaspora, screens at 7 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $9; $7 for seniors and students each night. Call 215-387-5125.