Regional arts and entertainment events

Sunday

From Broadway Two great musicals: Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick's Fiddler on the Roof, a 1964 classic based on Sholem Aleichem's tales of life in the shtetls (the Jewish towns of Eastern Europe) a century ago, was once the longest-running show on the Great White Way. Featuring iconic songs such as "Sunrise, Sunset" and "If I Were a Rich Man," the show goes on at 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday at Walnut Street Theatre, 825 Walnut St., and continues on a Tuesday-through-Sunday schedule to July 18. Tickets are $10 to $75. Call 215-574-3550. . . . Stephen Sondheim's 1984 masterpiece Sunday in the Park With George may not have songs that leave you humming, but it does have a well-deserved Pulitzer Prize. The magnificent musical based on the life of pointillist painter Georges Seurat and his A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte goes on at 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday at the Arden Theatre Company, 40 N. Second St., and continues on a Tuesday-through-Sunday schedule to July 4. Tickets are $29 to $48. Call 215-922-1122.

Monday

Film studies Filmmaker Rea Tajiri rattles the conventions of the movies and reconstructs the fragments into new narratives in her work. She'll screen and discuss her short films History and Memory (about her family's experience in internment camps during World War II) and Little Murders (a musical about ghosts and murder), plus show excerpts from her 1998 feature Strawberry Fields (about a Japanese-American girl struggling with ethnic identity in 1971) and (Bridge) River Is Remembering (a meditative work-in-progress about a small Delaware River town) at 7 p.m. at the Prince Music Theater's Independence Black Box, 1412 Chestnut St. Tickets are $10; $8 for seniors and students. Call 215-222-4201.

Conan Agonistes As a kid, Henry was always bemused by the way his parents talked about the breakup of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, as if the end of a comedy act were some sort of operatic drama. When Frank Sinatra brought Dean and Jerry back together in 1976, Henry remembered the way his mother wiped away a tear and his father beamed in satisfaction. It all seemed faintly ridiculous - it was just show biz, after all. Then, The Tonight Show drama happened, and Henry was riveted, affected by the drama, feeling faintly ridiculous but somehow truly moved (that 60 Minutes interview!) - and he understood his parents just a little better.