bright and perceptive 7-year-old girl
who chooses to stop talking. Though
she no longer allows her parents to
hear her, her thoughts are shared with
the viewer in this portrait of a child's
universe. 4 and 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5.
Angel Baby (1995 — Michael Rymer),
winner of the Australian Film Institute
Awards for best picture, best director,
The Ann Arbor Civic Theatre pre-
best actor and best actress,
sents Paula Vogel's Obie-win-
tells the story of two psy-
ning play, The Baltimore
chiatric patients who fall in
Waltz, a tender remembrance
love and confront risks
of the author's own brother's
when they conclude that
struggle with AIDS as well as a
true love requires less med-
fantastical portrait of the
ication. 7 p.m. Monday,
human spirit. Directed by Amy
Oct. 6. The Detroit
Kullenberg, the play features
Institute of Arts, 5200
Zehra Berkman. 8 p.m.
Woodward, Detroit.
Thursdays-Saturdays and 2
GAIL
$5.50/$4.50 seniors, stu-
p.m. Sundays, Oct. 16-26, at
ZIMMERMAN dents. Call (313) 833-
the AACT's Playhouse, 2275
Arts and
2323.
Platt Road, Ann Arbor.
Entertainment
Kiss or Kill, a new thriller
$16/$14 students and seniors.
Editor
by noted Australian film-
Call (313) 971-AACT.
maker Bill Bennett, opens
RAT (Real Alternative
Detroit's sixth annual Metropolitan
Theatre) presents a new comic drama
Film Festival, which is presented by the
from Detroit playwright and author
Detroit Filmmakers Coalition and
William Boyer, Marla In-Between, the
shows a diversity of independent films
story of an actress who shares a theater
and videos over four evenings at the
and apartment with her two
following venues: 7 p.m. Wednesday,
boyfriends. With a mission to entertain
Oct. 15, at the Redford Theater, 17360
and enlighten their neighborhood, this
Lahser Road, Detroit; 7 and 9:30 p.m.
menage a trois collides head-on with the
Thursday, Oct. 16, at the Majestic
outside world. 8 p.m. Thursdays-
Theater, 4140 Woodward, Detroit; 7
Saturdays and 4 p.m. Sundays, Oct.
and 9:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 16, and
16-Nov. 9, at 1515 Broadway (across
Saturday, Oct. 17, at 7th House, 7 N.
from the Detroit Opera House). $10
Saginaw, Pontiac. For more informa-
advance at Ticketmaster outlets/$12.50
tion, call (313) 255-0098.
at the door. Call (313) 831-0665 or
(313) 965-1515.
Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd
(The Demon Barber of Fleet Street) is
presented by the U-M Musical Theater
Department 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday,
Oct. 16-18, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct.
19, at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
in Ann Arbor. $14-$18/$7 students.
Call (313) 764-0450.
A one-man show, Daniel Sends His
Love is a semi-autobiographical story
about a young man's struggle to cope
with his grandmother's death. Written
as a follow-up to his Trapped in the
Rubber Room, Timothy Campos plays
all the parts. 8 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays
and 2 p.m. Sundays, Oct. 17-26, at the
Theatre Guild, 15138 Beech Daly,
Redford. $8. Call (313) 584-8427.

"Mark of Excellence" Radio Broadcast
Series will air on WQRS-FM, 105.1, 8
p.m. Saturday evenings (not Mondays
as originally announced) through
March 1998.

On The Stage

The Big Screen

The Detroit Film Theatre presents
two Australian films: The Quiet Room
(1996 — Rolf de Heer) is about a

Carrot Top

Laugh Lines

The winner of the 1994 American
Comedy Award for Best Male Stand-
up, Carrot Top's live show is a specta-
cle of lights, lasers, music and travel
trunks. 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12, at the
Macomb Center for the Performing
Arts, 44575 Garfield Road, Clinton
Twp. $25-$30. Call (810) 286-2222.
The first female ever called upon to
headline the prestigious White House
Correspondents dinner, the always
topical Paula Poundstone performs 9
p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, at Hill
Auditorium, Ann Arbor. $16. Call
(248) 645-6666:

Brush Club runs Oct. 13-30 at the

Southfield Centre for the Arts, 24350
Southfield Road, Southfield. Call
(248) 424-9022.
Our Town, a juried art exhibition
and sale sponsored by the Community
House in Birmingham, opens with a
gala preview 6-9 p.m. Wednesday,
Oct. 15. Benefactors, $175; Friends,
$100. Free admission 10 a.m.-10 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 16; 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 17 ($25, 6:30-9 p.m., for
an art and jazz hors d'oeuvres recep-
tion); 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct.
18; and 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Sunday,
Oct. 19. The Community House, 380
S. Bates, Birmingham. Call (248) 644-
5832.

Whatnot

Elayne. Gross: Mom, a photograph taken a month
before the death of the artist's mother. (See This Week's
Best Bets.)

Author and U-M instruc-
tor Gay Rubin shares her
insights on short-story
writng in an "Author!
Author!" class sponsored
by the city of Southfield.
7-9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct
14, at Southfield Centre
for the Arts, 24350
Southfield Road, between
9 1/2 and 10 Mile roads.
$20. Call (248) 424-

In
The
h Family Markowitz,
9042

Allegra Goodman brings

to life the hilarious,
touching and complex characters who
make up three generations of a
More aligned with performance
remarkable family. Meet the author
art than static sculpture, Swiss
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14, at Borders
artist Roman Signer exhibits his
Books and Music Cafe, 34300
collection of drawings, installa-
Woodward, Birmingham. Call (248)
• 203-0005.
tions, taped performances and
sculptural artifacts in "The
Born in Detroit, educated at U-M
Sound of One Bomb Clapping,"
and currently a member of the depart-
at the Cranbrook Art Museum
ment- of history at Tel Aviv University,
through Oct. 26. 1221 N.
Robert Rockaway discusses and signs
Woodward, Bloomfield Hills.
his book But He Was Good to his
Call (248) 645-3323.
Mother — The Lives and Crimes of
Also at Cranbrook, on exhibit
Jewish Gangsters 7 p.m. Friday, Oct.
through Jan. 4, 1998, is
17, at Barnes and Noble, 6800
Ambiguous Signifiers: The
Orchard Lake Road, West Bloomfield.
Drawings of Claudia Goulette.
Call (248) 626-6804.
Goulette, whose works explore
Zany zombies, giggling ghouls and
language and communication
spry spirits will leap from behind
through images of dissolving and
trees, unleash blood-curdling screams
disintegrating text, will hold a
and play devilish tricks 7-9:30 p.m.
public conversation titled "Say
Friday, Oct. 17, at the Bloomer •
What?" with museum curators,
Haunted Forest. Rain date is
7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 16, at
Saturday, Oct. 18. Bloomer Park,
the museum. Call (248) 645-
Richardson Road, west of Green Lake
3361.
Road, in West Bloomfield. Call (248)
A juried exhibition of art by
738-2500.
members of the Palette and

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