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Published: Mar 28, 2007

For those who think Dick and Liz and Franco Zeffirelli take the cake when it comes to lively interpretation of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, allow Lantern Theater to take another joust at the prize with its all-male-cast version of this classic battle of the sexes. It doesn't get more mano-a-mano than this.

—Deni Kasrel

March 30-April 29, $15-$30, Lantern Theater, St. Stephen's Theater, 10th and Ludlow streets, 215-829-9002, www.lanterntheater.org.

In February 2006, Octavia Butler — author of Kindred and the only science fiction writer to ever win the prestigious MacArthur "Genius" Grant — passed away. Tall in stature and powerful with the pen, she will be missed. Local sci-fi scribe Leslie Esdaile Banks, along with Samuel R. Delany and Steven Barnes, will read and discuss Butler's legacy.

—Ainé Ardron-Doley

Sat., March 31, 8 p.m., $5, Church of the Advocate, 18th and Diamond streets, 215-232-4485, www.artsanctuary.org.

Quondam press releases from Kelly Writers House said you had to sign up early to take part in this Saturday's spelling bee. They've since reneged on that, and acquiesced to allowing entrants to sit for a spell that evening. Since you're heading there anyway, why not convey superfluous children's books for their book drive? And while you're waiting to be felled by some sesquipedalian, inkhorn word, you might as well gormandize some hard-to-spell foods (peradventure cantaloupe, mini-reubens and/or pomegranates) and enjoy a live musical performance by Red Heart the Ticker.

—Patrick Rapa

Sat., March 31, 7 p.m., free, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, 215-573-WRIT, www.writing.upenn.edu/wh.

"Those who can't, teach"? Fugeddaboutit. Teachers are definitely doing at Temple's Faculty Dance Concert. Featuring selections by Merian Soto, Kun-Yang Lin, Kariamu Welsh and Philip Grosser, among others, these folks — besides producing their own work — help nurture our city's continuing crop of young dancers and choreographers.

—Deni Kasrel

Fri.-Sat. March 30-31, 8 p.m., $8-$10, Tomlinson Theater, 1301 W. Norris St., 1-888-OWLSTIX.

Hardcore Tony Kushner nerds, this is your weekend. For one thing, The Arden Theatre has extended its run of Kush's musical Caroline, Or Change, through April 15. Also, Freida Lee Mock's Kushnerrific doc debuts at Ritz Theatres, with a panel discussion on March 30. (See Movie Shorts on p. XX for more on that.) Finally, UPenn presents a production of Angels In America/Millennium Approaches, directed by City Paper theater critic David Anthony Fox.

—Patrick Rapa

Caroline, Or Change runs through April 15, $29-$45, Arden Theatre Company, 40 N. Second St., 215-922-1122, www.ardentheatre.org. Angels In America/Millennium Approaches, Fri., March 30, 8 p.m., Sat. March 31, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., Sun., April 1, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., 215-898-3900.

What's so fascinating about disaster? Oy, there are so many dimensions to consider. And you get plenty of 'em at Peregrine Arts' Sinking of the Titanic, where you're submerged in a multifaceted artscape to include a silent film, live music plus text relating to the life of a passenger who went down with the ship. For extra kicks, at the gala Friday production, well-heeled patrons can experience a reconstruction of a dinner thrown for the Titanic's VIPs.

—Deni Kasrel

Thu., March 29, 7:30 and 9 p.m., $10-$30; Fri., March 30, 6 p.m., $250 includes gala dinner, Union League of Philadelphia, 140 S. Broad St., 215-760-1634, www.peregrinearts.org.

 

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