THEATER‘Anna K.’ "Anna K" is part of this year's Fringe Festival.Friday through Sept. 21Karenin’s House1816 Wharton St.$15, 215-413-1318www.fringearts.comChris Davis, who brought us “Holly’s Dead Soliders” at last year’s Fringe Festival, presents his latest, a modernized, and presumably abbreviated, retelling of Leo Tolstoy’s epic “Anna Karenina,” staged in a South Philly rowhouse. For those unfamiliar with the plot, we don’t have much room here so it’ll have to suffice to say it’s about pretty much everything.‘iHamlet’Through SundayPhiladelphia Shakespeare Company2111 Sansom St.$25, 215-496-8001www.phillyshakespeare.orgDespite the pun on Apple’s product naming style in the title, this alternate version of Hamlet doesn’t simply imagine the moody Danish prince, here played by a female actor, as an iPhone-toting millennial. Rather, it isolates Hamlet’s lines from the rest of the play and presents them as an uninterrupted monologue — the existential Twitter feed of a famously troubled soul.CRAFT SHOWCraft Phila: Liberty BellSaturday and SundayNext to the Liberty Bell Pavilion and Independence MallSixth and Chestnut streetsFree, 267-679-3121www.craftphila.orgKeeping it patriotic, 76 artists and craftspeople from around the corner and across the country — painters, printers, photographers, furniture makers, jewelers, candle makers, soap makers, metalworkers, woodworkers and others — will be plying their wares at this outdoor fair around the Liberty Bell.ARTThree Themes: ‘Contemporary Connections with Paul Strand’Thursday through Nov. 8Philadelphia Photo Arts Center1400 N. American St.Free, 215-232-5678www.philaphotoarts.orgThis show features 25-plus photographs by Tanyth Berkeley, Doug Rickard and Paul Salveson. Each has a focus that can find a connection to 20th-century modernist Paul Strand, who shot mainly in three genres: portraiture (Berkeley), street scenes (Rickard) and abstraction (Salveson). A Strand retrospective opens at the Philadelphia Museum of Art next month.‘YOMI-T.G.M.B.’ "YOMI-T.G.M.B. is a mixed-media exhibit.Through Sept. 27Cerulean Arts1355 Ridge Ave.Free, 267-514-8647www.ceruleanarts.comIn this series of interrelated mixed-media works, Bulgarian artist Nikolay Milushev imagines an environmentally devastated alternate reality that, given the environmental threats that exist today, may not be alternative enough for comfort. The pieces feature character called YOMI, a mysterious creature that both haunts and represents humanity — a figure, perhaps, of our alienation from our own responsibilities.DANCE‘Necessary Efforts’Friday, 7 p.m.Performance Garage1515 Brandywine St.$12-$15, 215-569-4060necessaryefforts.blogspot.comFour choreographers present their works at this contemporary dance show from local company Naked Stark. Beau Hancock gives us “Mooring Field”; “City Bird Sings the Car Alarm” comes via Shannon Murphy; Katherine Kiefer Stark provides “Invisible LUs”; and Megan Wilson sterns rounds things out with an untitled work.‘Resurrection Room’Friday through Sept. 21Latvian Society531 N. Seventh St.$25, 215-413-1318www.fringearts.com“Follow a young woman as she stumbles upon a world with no rules, no life, no death,” goes the teaser for this production from Gunnar Montana. Our heroine seems to be engaged in some kind of dialogue with a freaky humanoid with tubes protruding from his pink head. Who is he? What does he want? Is he even real? Is she dreaming? Are we?MUSICJohn Vanore and Abstract TruthFriday, 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.Chris’ Jazz Cafe1421 Sansom St.$15-$20, 215-568-3131www.chrisjazzcafe.comLocally based jazz composer and trumpeter John Vanore’s band, Abstract Truth, is composed of a dozen-odd members, sometimes including such rarely seen instruments as the bass clarinet and French horn. Their number puts them somewhere between a small ensemble and a big band, and Vanore takes full advantage of this hybrid format to create a sound both intimate and expansive, hot and cool.King CrimsonFriday and SaturdayKimmel Center300 S. Broad St.$45-$150, 215-893-1999www.kimmelcenter.orgDavid Bowie is probably the only British pop institution who’s had more diverse transformations than prog rock group King Crimson, now on its eighth lineup, and touring for the first time since 2008. The only constant member has been guitarist Robert Fripp, who’s led the band from fantasy pomp to atonal fusion jazz to brainy metal to edgy new wave and beyond.MOVIESRooftop Movie Night: ‘Ratatouille’Friday, 7:30 p.m.Whole Foods929 South St.$3, 215-733-9788www.wholefoodsmarket.comThis screening of the charming 2007 Pixar film “Ratatouille” is a fundraiser for Whole Foods Market’s Whole Kids Foundation. “Ratatouille,” about Remy the rat, who dreams of becoming a chef, seems like a perfect pick. We’re still hoping for a sequel where Remy becomes a Gordon Ramsay-esque hothead celebrity chef, but Pixar never replies to our emails.TOURSExtreme Ghost Hunt ExperienceSaturday, 8 p.m.Eastern State PenitentiaryN. 22nd St. at Fairmount Ave.$90, 609-578-9408screamparanormal.blogspot.comTake a ghost hunting tour with paranormal investigator Chris Nicoletti, who’s been seen provoking the dead on SyFy and other channels. Naturally, they can’t promise an encounter with a ghost, but Eastern State has a reputation for being way haunted, scaring even the most seasoned ghost hunters. So it ought to at least be an extremely spooky evening.COMEDYDoug StanhopeFriday, 8 p.m.Trocadero Theater1003 Arch St.$30, 21+, 877-987-6487www.ticketfly.comComedian Doug Stanhope belongs to the lineage of libertarian-minded comics such as George Carlin and Bill Hicks, who tell it like they see it, no matter where it leads them. Like Hicks, Stanhope is more prone to caustic, amusingly over-the-top rants than jokes, but beneath all the angst is a positive message: Life is too short to not think for yourself.
