Arts Entert
GOTTA HAVE ART
This weekend's 15th annual Our Town art exhibi-
tion and sale at Birmingham Community House in
downtown Birmingham features 214 artists from 74
communities across the state of Michigan. The
show, juried by Ken Gross, director of the Art
Museum Project/Alfred Berkowitz Gallery at the
University of Michigan-Dearborn, is free and open
to the public 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday and Saturday
and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27-29. For more
information, call (248) 594-6403.
The Birmingham Temple in Farmington Hills
hosts its 28th Juried Art Show Nov. 3-5, featuring
an array of work from more than 100 artists in the
Midwest. Artists will be present at the opening night
gala, 7-10:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3; wine,
cheese, hors d'oeuvres and dessert will be
served and pianist Sam Wedes will enter-
tain. Tickets are $15. From 10 a.m.-5
p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 4-5,
admission is free; lunch and snacks will
be available for purchase. For more infor-
mation, call (248) 626-5307.
CLASSY CONCERT
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra
plays Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7, a
testimony to the spirit of the people of
Leningrad and their heroic 900-day
defense against Hitler's army, 10:45 a.m.
and 8 p.m. Friday and 8:30 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 3-4, at Orchestra Hall.
$15-$67. (313) 576-5111.
The Ark in Ann Arbor hosts musical
satirists Lou and Peter Berryman 8
p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28, and iconoclastic
folksinger Dan Bern 8 p.m. Tuesday,
Oct. 31. $12.50. (734) 761-1451.
Ben Harper and the Innocent
Criminals take the stage at Detroit's
State Theatre 7:30 p.m. Wednesday,
Nov. 1. $28.50. (313) 961-5450.
Singer/songwriter Elliott Smith per-
forms Wednesday, Nov. 1, at St.
Andrew's Hall in Detroit. Doors at 8
p.m. $14. (313) 961-6358.
Leader of the house band on The
Arts l Entertainment
Editor
Detroit-born Ruth Laredo studied with
renowned DSO pianist Mischa Kottler
and at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute with Rudolph
Serkin. She first performed for the Cranbrook
___Music Guild in 1957 as a
teenager in a "Young Artists"
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concert and returns to play
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for the guild once again -
Barns:
her first appearance since
"Homeless in
1964 - in a concert 8 p.m.
L.A. #6,"
Wednesday, Nov. I, at the
acrylic, at
Kingswood Auditorium on
Our Town.
the Cranbrook campus.
(Note: The regular Tuesday
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concert schedule has been
Wilhat: Shard changed for this perform-
Vessel Series,
ance.) She will play works of
glass, at
Bach, Chopin, Scriabin and
Birmingham
Ravel.
Temple Art
Laredo, who regularly per-
Show
forms with major symphonies
.
MORE BEST BETS ...
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
Tonight Show with Jay Leno, saxophonist
Branford Marsalis joins the DSO in an
Ameritech Paradise Jazz Series concert 8
p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2, at Orchestra
Hall. $16-$62. (313) 576-5111.
"The High Priestess of Soul," Nina
Simone makes a rare U.S. appearance
8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3, at Hill
Auditorium in Ann Arbor. $18-$45.
(734) 764-2538.
Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-win-
ning play, Wit, which asks profound
questions in the face of life and death,
will be performed 8 p.m. Thursdays-
Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays at Ann
Arbor's Performance Network. $17-
$20. (734) 663-0681.
Oakland University's Department of
Music, Theatre and Dance presents
Moss Hart and George Kaufman's
Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy, You
Can't Take it With You, Nov. 2-12, at
the Studio Theatre on the OU cam-
and prestigious string quartets, is perhaps
best known for her pioneering recordings
of Rachmaninoff's complete solo piano
works, and, later, all of Scriabin's sonatas.
For the past 12 years, she has sold out her
"Concerts With Commentary" recital
series at New York's Metropolitan
Museum of Art.
Tickets are $25, including an afterglow,
and a limited number are available at the
door; student tickets are $15. For more
information or to reserve tickets, call
(810) 751-2435.
MODERN SHAKESPEARE
In Shakespeare's R &J, Joe Calarco's all-male ver-
sion of Romeo & Juliet, four young prep-school boys
act out the Shakespearean tragedy with electrifying
results. The play focuses on sexual awakening, the
universal thirst for first love and the longing for
something you cannot have.
Wayne State University's Studio Theatre presents
the drama, starring Matthew Raines (Romeo), Brent
Michael Bradley (Juliet), Darrell Glasgow
(Mercutio) and Groves High School grad and for-
mer Franklin resident Daniel J. Roth (Tybalt), 8
p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, Nov. 2-11.
The Studio Theatre is located downstairs from the
Hilberry Theatre on the corner of Cass and Hancock
in Detroit. Tickets are $6-$8. (313) 577-2972.
pus. Call for show times. $5-$10.
(248 370-3013.
Rosedale Community Players stages
David Botrell and Jessie Jones' Dearly
Departed, a comedy about a Southern
family, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and
2 p.m. Sundays, Nov. 3-18, at the
Upstage Theater In Old Redford. $10.
(313) 532-4010.
First Theater Guild mounts a pro-
duction of the family comedy
Cheaper by the Dozen Nov. 3-12 at
the First Presbyterian Church in
Birmingham. Call for show times. $5-
$8. (248) 644-2087, Ext. 151.
Congregation Shaarey Zedek of East
Lansing presents An Evening of
Comedy with Caryn Barak 7 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 29, at the synagogue. $15
adults/$10 students; tickets available at
the door. (517) 351-3570.
The Redford Theatre celebrates
Halloween with Young Frankenstein,
plus The Three Stooges in Spook
Louder, 8 p.m. Friday and 2 and 8
p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27-28. $4. (313)
537-2560.
The DSO's sections are introduced
playing Halloween-themed music in
Frightful Fantasy, a Detroit News Young
People's Concert featuring the Magic
Circle Mime Company, 11 a.m.
Saturday, Oct. 28, at Orchestra Hall.
$8-$31. (313) 576-5111.
The sixth annual Pumpkin Patch, an
afternoon of fun activities for children
(wear costumes) and their families, runs
1-4 p.m., followed by Birmingham's
64th annual Halloween Parade at 4:30
p.m., Sunday, Oct. 29, in Shain Park.
Free. (248) 644-1700.
The Sugarloaf Art Fair, featuring
more than 335 professional artisans,
comes to Novi Expo Center 10 a.m.-
6 p.m. Friday-Sunday, Oct. 27-29.
$6/under 12 free.
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