Artquicks

More Stuff going on this week...

theater

Hoping for the same success that greeted Charles Mee’s Big Love last season, the Wilma is now staging Mee’s tale of love and strife in the woods, Wintertime. Mee -- whose plays also include True Love and First Love -- finds limitless possibilities in the topic. Wintertime has a young man seeking a romantic weekend with his girlfriend at his parent’s cabin, only to have those parents crash his party, with their new lovers by their sides. Let the comic mayhem begin! March 10-April 18, $9-$48, Wilma Theater, 265 S. Broad St., 215-546-7824.

theater

Eternal Spiral Project, dedicated to women in theater, is taking on a challenge: August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, a tense, psychological story about gender, social strata and sexual politics. Helena White will direct ESP co-artistic director Kirsten Quinn as Julie, daughter of a count; Kurt Runco as the count’s valet, Jean; and Kaleo Bird as the maid, Kristin. (Listen for the original song written just for ESP by local scribe Michael Hollinger --just days away from when his Tooth and Claw is set to open at the Arden, no less.) March 10-28, $15-$18, Second Stage at the Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St., 215-563-4330.

books

In The Dream Life: Movies, Media and the Mythology of the Sixties (New Press), Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman casts 1960s politics in light of the era’s movies and vice versa, with the thesis that the two are irrevocably intertwined. Hoberman, who’ll read from and sign the book this week, marvels that stunning social and political events (the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, etc.) filled television screens while cinematic feats of daring (Dr. Strangelove, Easy Rider) hit movie screens. Sat., March 6, 7 p.m., free, International House, 3701 Chestnut St., 215-895-6569.

books

The Beat Generation lives. Three of its survivors take the stage at The Point this weekend. Poets Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, Ira Cohen and Paul Grillo -- contemporaries of Kerouac and Ferlinghetti -- will come from near (Grillo and Moore are based in Philly) and far (Cohen’s a New Yorker) to read old and new work at the Point. Sun., March 7, 7 p.m., $7, The Point, 880 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, 610-527-0988.

vocal recital

In tandem with the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Mahler’s World festival, maestro Christoph Eschenbach reverts to his dazzling pianist days to accompany the wonderfully gifted young German baritone Matthias Goerne in an intimate program of Schumann and Mahler songs. Goerne’s haunting, dynamically honed voice should illumine Mahler’s tragic Kindertotenlieder but also sparkle in the up-tempo folkish songs. Mon., March 8, 8 p.m., $23, Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St., 215-569-8080.

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