CLAssicAL Nuns
ON THE STAGE
The Ann Arbor Symphony
Ann Arbor's Performance Network
Orchestra, under conductor Arie
hosts the Midwest premiere of Taking
Lipsky, opens its season 8 p.m.
Leave, Nagle Jackson's comedy about a
Saturday, Sept. 8, at the Michigan
Shakespeare scholar with Alzheimer's, 8
Theater. Stravinsky's Petrouchka and
p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 p.m.
Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 will be
Sundays, Sept. 7-Oct. 7. $20-$25.
featured. $18-$32/discounts available.
(734) 663-0681.
(734) 994-4801.
Hamtramck's Planer Ant Theatre
The Windsor Jewish Community
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
mounts a production of The Birds, a
Arts c;;.- Entertainment
Center, located at 1641 Ouellette. Ave.,
comedy by Aristophanes, 8 p.m.
Editor
hosts entertainer Hal Jeffrin in "The
Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays,
Borscht Belt Meets Broadway," a con-
Sept. 7-30. $10-$15. (313) 365-4948.
cert featuring music of the Yiddish Theater and
Nancy_Gurwin Presents stages a contemporary ver-
cantorial tradition, as well as Israeli, pop and
sion of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph and the
Broadway tunes, 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 9. $7
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 8 p.m. Saturdays
advance/$10 at the door. (519) 973-1772.
and 2 and 7 p.m. Sundays, Sept. 8-Oct. 7, in the
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra launches its
Aaron DeRoy Theatre at the West Bloomfield Jewish
classical season with Itzhak Perlman conducting
Community Center. $13420. (248) 352-7172.
Schubert's Symphony No. 5, Brahms' Symphony
The Birmingham Temple Drama Group performs
No. 1 and Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915,
three one-act plays, about time, love and loss, 8
featuring soprano Heidi Grant Murphy. Concerts
p.m. Saturday and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 8-9, at
take place 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12; 8:30 p.m.
the temple. $5 members/$7 nonmembers; tickets
Saturday, Sept. 15; and 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16,
available at the door. (248) 477-1410.
at Orchestra Hall. These concerts mark Perlman's
For those interested in community theater, St.
debut as the season's principal guest conductor, a
Dunstan's Theatre Guild of Cranbrook hosts its
role he'll assume three more times in the coming
annual open house 3-6 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 9, at its
year. $20-$75. (313) 576-5111.
facility located at 400 Lone Pine, (248) 644-0527;
and Ridgedale Players holds its annual open house
1-4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 9, at its Troy playhouse, 205
W. Long Lake, (248) 988-7049.
Meadow Brook Theatre in Rochester Hills opens
Ranked as Billboard's No. 1 Independent
its season with the musical Pump Boys and
Contemporary Jazz Artist in America, pianist
Dinettes, running Sept. 12-Oct. 7. Call for show
Keiko Matsui highlights "Jazz on the Lake"
times. $26-$38. (248) 377-3300.
Sunday, Sept. 9, on the campus of the Orchard
University Musical Society presents the British
Lake Schools. Alexander Zonjic and Friends and
theatrical
sensation Shockheaded Peter, a funny and
Angela Bofill also will perform. The event fea-
macabre "junk opera" rendition of Heinrich
tures food-tasting and wine-tasting, and silent
Hoffman's children's book Der Struwwelpter, 8 p.m.
and live auctions. Doors open at 2 p.m. $75.
Wednesday-Friday and 7 p.m. and 12 midnight
(248) 683-1750.
Saturday, Sept. 12-15, at the Michigan Theater in
The "Queen of Folkabilly," singer Nanci
Ann Arbor. $14-$35. (734) 764-2538.
Griffith, with the Blue-Moon Orchestra, takes the
The Detroit Festival of the Arts presents
stage 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12, at Ann Arbor's
Shakespeare-in-the-Park
performances of Twelfth
Hill Auditorium. She'll perform songs from Clock
Night at dusk Friday and Saturday, Sept. 14-15, on
With No Hands, her first album of original music
the lawn of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Free.
in five years. $27.50-$35. (248) 645-6666.
(313) 577-5088.
Beatlemania, a re-creation of the Fab Four and
their music, visits Sterling Height's Freedom Hill
Amphitheatre 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14. $10-
THE SMALL SCREEN
$30. (248) 645-6666.
Cobo Hall hosts An Evening with Bob Dylan 8
WTVS-Channel 56 screens Changing Stages,
p.m. Friday, Nov. 9, in conjunction with his new
exploring the works of several American playwrights
CD, Love and Theft. $25-$37.50. Tickets go on sale
in the context of the Depression, the "American
10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, at Joe Louis Arena and
Dream" and the Cold War, including Jewish play-
Fox Theatre box offices and all Ticketmaster loca-
wrights Arthur Miller and Clifford Odets, 5 p.m.
tions; charge by phone at (248) 645-6666.
Sunday, Sept. 9. Check your local listings.
PoP/RocK/JAzz
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Friends of the Oak Park Library present Critter Capers,
a live puppet show with audience participation, 2:30 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 9, at the library. Free. (248) 691-7480
THE ART SCENE
The annual Arts & Apples Festival takes place in
Rochester Municipal Park 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and
10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 8-9. (313) 651-7418.
Birmingham's David Klein Gallery exhibits paint-
ings, drawings and sculptures of South American artist
Fernando Botero Sept. 8-Oct. 20. Opening reception:
1-4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8. (248) 433-3700.
Royal Oak's Sybaris Gallery features the jewelry
and found object sculptures of J. Fred Woell Sept.
8-Oct. 20. Opening reception: 5-7 p.m. Saturday,
Sept. 8. (248) 544-388.
The Detroit Institute of Arts presents Jason
Young, assistant professor of architecture at U-M's
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban
Planning, speaking on Building Detroit, 2 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 9, in the Lecture Hall at the DIA.
Free with museum admission. (313) 833-4249.
WSU's Department of Art and Art History exhibits
Up From the Streets: Detroit Art from the Duffy
Collection, the most comprehensive overview of Cass
Corridor art in public or private hands, Sept. 14-Dec.
21 in both the Elaine L. Jacob and Community Arts
galleries. Opening reception: 5-8 p.m. Friday, Sept.
14. In conjunction with the exhibit, there will be a
symposium, tided "Fervor and Ferment: Art of the
'60s and '70s," 12:30-4:30 p.m. Nov. 4 at the Detroit
Institute of Arts Lecture Hall. (313) 577-2423.
Artist Lois Teicher's sculptures and small drawings
will be on display in "Split Self," an exhibit at
Ferndale's Au Courant Design Studio/Gallery, Sept.
14-Oct. 19. Opening reception: 5-7 p.m. Friday,
Sept. 14. (248) 548-3770.
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Greenfield Village hosts the 51st annual Old Car
Festival 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 8-
9. (313) 271-1620.
Nina Totenberg, National Public Radio's award-
winning legal affairs correspondent, speaks at the
opening meeting lunch of National Council of
Jewish Women-Greater Detroit Section, 11 a.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 11, at Congregation Shaarey Zedek.
Men and women are invited to attend; $36 mem-
bers/$42 nonmembers. (248) 355-3300.
To arrange an audition to perform with the all-
women Bel Canto Choral Group, co-sponsored by
the Jimmy Prentis Morris Jewish Community
Center, call Kathryn Parcells, (313) 640-0123.
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