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 FAMILY FuN 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. WHATNOT 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. 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. 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