Regional event highlights include Craig Ferguson, The Dead Zone and Greg Hawkes with Eddie Japan performing Car Music (Event Summary).

• Craig Ferguson, a comedian who knows how to make anyone laugh, will perform tonight at 7:30 at the Santander Performing Arts Center in Reading. Ferguson is a Grammy-nominated and Peabody and Emmy Award-winning actor, writer, producer, director and comedian with a varied career spanning film, television and stage. He is a New York Times bestselling author and has recorded stand-up shows for Netflix, Epix, Comedy Central and Amazon. The hugely popular “The Late Show with Craig Ferguson” aired on CBS for 10 years and remains a cult favorite on YouTube, racking up millions of views each year on fan-posted bootleg clips. After several low-paying roles, Ferguson discovered he had a knack for comedy and soon became the star of his own BBC TV show, The Ferguson Theory. After several appearances on the UK comedy circuit, Ferguson moved to America in 1995 to star alongside Betty White and Marie Osmond in the short-lived ABC comedy Maybe This Time. After the show ended, ABC decided to add the talented Scot to The Drew Carey Show as Drew Carey’s boss, Nigel Wick, from 1996 to 2003. Ferguson has achieved notable success in the North American comedy scene and has performed in sold-out theaters across the country, including Carnegie Hall and Radio City Music Hall. He has five widely acclaimed stand-up comedy programs: “A Wee Bit O’ Revolution,” which premiered in 2009 on Comedy Central; “Does It Need To Be Said” in 2011 on EPIX and Comedy Central; I’m Here to Help in 2013 on Netflix, which earned him a Grammy nomination for best comedy album; “Justbeing Honest” in 2015 on EPIX, which earned him a second Grammy nomination for Best Comedy Album; and Tickle Fight in 2017 on Netflix and the six-part documentary series Hobo Fabulous on Amazon in 2020. Tickets start at $29. For more information go to santander-arena.com/events.

• Exhumed Films presents “The Dead Zone,” a horror film that will keep you on high alert, Saturday at 7:30 pm at the Colonial Theater in Phoenixville. Exhumed Films officially kicks off its series of 16mm film presentations at the opulent Berry Colonial Theater with David Cronenberg’s 1983 adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dead Zone. Throughout November and December, Exhumed Films will be bringing 16mm projectors, feature films, cartoons, shorts, TV spots and related information for a program showcasing smaller format films that do not typically have the opportunity to be presented at the Colonial Theatre. The show will be preceded by a related animated short and a selection of 1980s horror TV spots, and the film will be followed by a special screening for King fans of the rarely seen 1983 short adaptation of The Crow’s Disciples. Children of the Corn was filmed before the feature film. The number of places is limited. Tickets start at $18. For more information go to thecolonialtheatre.com/films.

• Greg Hawkes with Eddie Japan Car Music Perform, a show that never ceases to amaze, is set for Saturday at 7:30 pm in Uptown! Knauer Center for the Performing Arts in West Chester. By pioneering and pushing the boundaries of technology and sequencing in the late ’70s and throughout the ’80s, Hawks cemented the synthesizer’s place in rock and pop music, and his contributions influenced countless artists. In addition to achieving Rock and Roll Hall of Fame status and enormous commercial success with The Cars, Hawks was an in-demand session and touring musician and worked with the likes of Paul McCartney, Todd Rundgren and The Turtles. In 2016, he collaborated with renowned Boston band Eddie Japan for their 2017 album “Golden Age.” This eventually led to Hawks and the band joining forces to create an evening of The Cars music with a setlist curated by Hawks. Since 2019, Greg Hawkes with Eddie Japan performing the music of The Cars has been delighting audiences across the North East with an energetic show featuring hits and deeper cuts from the Cars songbook, as well as special selections related to Hawks’ music career. Tickets start at $40. For more information see uptownwestchester.org.

• The Hooters perform Friday at 8 p.m. at the Keswick Theater in Glenside. In 1980, Hooters burst onto the Philadelphia music scene as a new, unusual rock band formed by co-leaders and songwriters Rob Hyman and Eric Bazilian. Other members include original drummer David Uosikkinen, John Lilly, Fran Smith Jr. and Tommy Williams. Hyman and Bazilian have provided music and songwriting assistance to other artists, including Cyndi Lauper, Joan Osbourne, The Band, Carole King, Mick Jagger, Willie Nelson, The Chieftains, Jon Bon Jovi, Robbie Williams, The Scorpions, Dara Williams and Taju. Mahal. In 2009, Hooters released Both Sides Live, a two-album set that featured all of the band’s greatest hits in both electric and unique acoustic versions. And in 2010, their EP “5×5” was released, which included the inspiring single “Silver Lining”, as well as versions of the hits “Time After Time” and “One Of Us”. The two songs earned Hyman and Bazilian Grammy nominations for Song of the Year when they were hits written and recorded with Lauper and Osbourne, respectively. In 2017 the band released a double live album, Give The Music Back, recorded in Keswick. This collection and subsequent international tours continue to reflect their close collaboration in the studio, their passionate energy on stage, and their long-standing friendship on and off the road. And in October 2019, the group was inducted into the Philadelphia Walk of Fame with its own plaque on the Walk of the Arts. Tickets start at $98. For more information go to keswicktheatre.com/events.