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" Far left: concert and returns to play Ronald 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 Left: James 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. FYI: For Arts and Entertainment related events that you wish to have considered for Out & About, please send the item, with a detailed description of the event, times, dates, place, ticket prices and publishable phone number, to: Gail Zimmerman, JN Out & About, The Jewish News, 27676 Franklin Road, Southfield, MI 48034; fax us at (248) 354-6069; or e-mail to gzimmerman@thejewishnews.com Notice must be received at least three weeks before the scheduled event. Photos are appreciated but cannot be returned. All events and dates listed in the Out & About column are subject to change.