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You Can Find the Humor in Vatican II
"When I first started, I had this notion that it would be a serious
endeavor — a look at the life of a gay lector. That died on
the vine. It was humor that saved me." —Monica Weymouth
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Fri., Aug. 15, 9 p.m., $15, North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St., 215-787-0488, northstarbar.com.
Misnomer or not, it was perhaps inevitable that a group that plays this
fast and loose with both jazz and rock conventions should prove unable
to sustain any single identity for very long. —Shaun Brady
Manuel Göttsching
Sat., Aug. 16, 8 p.m., $40, St. Mary's Hamilton Village, 3916 Locust Walk, 800-965-4827, thegatherings.org.
Think Syd Barrett minus the insanity, or Brian Eno without the better-paying pop-music day gigs. —Shaun Brady
Titus Andronicus
Mon., Aug. 18, 6 p.m., $10, The Barbary, 951 Frankford Ave., 866-468-7619, r5productions.com.
Ruby, the 4-year-old music director of the family, has demanded that
this song be played with the "a lot" button (repeat) engaged on the car
stereo on the way to and from pretty much everywhere for the last few
months. —Atom Goren
Sam Gilliam
Sam Gilliam artist talk, Thu., Aug. 14, 6 p.m., $7-$15, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 118-128 N. Broad St., 215-972-0522, pafa.org.
Gilliam's art continues to straddle the line between painting and sculpture. —Deni Kasrel
Shakespeare's R&J
Through Aug. 24, $20, Mauckingbird Theatre Co., Second Stage at the Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St., 215-923-8909, mauckingbirdtheatreco.org.
Largely an inventive four-actor cutting of Shakespeare's script, R&J tells its own story of overpowering first love. —Mark Cofta