Best Bets
CLASSICAL NOTES
The Chamber Music Society of Detroit presents
the Borromeo String Quartet with clarinetist
Richard Stoltzman 8 p.m. Saturday, March 24, at the
Seligman Performing Arts Center in Beverly Hills.
The program includes works by Beethoven, Bartok
and Mozart. $18-$67/$15 students. (248) 737-9980.
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra's premiere
youth ensemble, the Detroit Symphony Civic
Orchestra performs Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 7
p.m. Sunday, March 24, at Orchestra Hall. A 250-
voice chorus will join the orchestra for the "Ode to
Joy." $6. (313) 576-5111.
P o p / Ro ad JAzz
New York-based acoustic folksinger Lucy
Kaplansky takes the stage at The Ark in Ann Arbor
7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 23, $13.50; and contem-
porary singer/songwriter John Hiatt performs 7 and
9:30 p.m. Monday, March 25, $37. (734) 761-1451.
Jazzjegend Herbie Hancock plays in a WDET-
sponsored concert Saturday, March 23, at Detroit's St.
Andrew's Hall. Doors at 8 p.m. $25. (248) 645-6666.
BeatleJam, featuring Audley Freed of the Black
Crowes, Vince Welnick of the Grateful Dead and
more, comes to Detroit's Majestic Theatre 8 p.m.
Saturday, March 23. $20. (248) 645-6666.
Playing contemporary songs on the most traditional
of instruments, the Modern Mandolin Quartet per-
forms 8 p.m. Saturday, March 23, at Macomb Center
for the Performing Arts. $9-$35. (586) 286-2222.
Vocalist Janis Siegel of the Manhattan Transfer
presents selections from her latest CD, I Wish You
Love — on which she pays homage to the pop corn-
posers of New York's famed Brill Building — 9 and
11 p.m. Friday, March 29, at the Firefly, 207 N.
Ashley, in Ann Arbor. $20. (734) 665-9090.
ON THE STAGE
Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, about the members of a patri-
cian family who find themselves caught in the heat of
their own passions, runs through April 14 at Meadow
Brook Theatre on the campus of Oakland University.
Call for show times. $17-$38: (248) 377-3300.
U-M theater group Rude Mechanicals stage a pro-
duction of Alfred Uhry's Last Night of Ballyhoo, the
Tony Award-winning play about a wealthy German-
Jewish family hoping to launch their daughters into
Atlanta society, 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, March
28-30, in the East Quad Auditorium, 701 East
University, in Ann Arbor. $5-$6. (734) 647-4360.
DANCE FEVER
Twyla Tharp Dance, a new company of six dancers
from the American Ballet Theater, the Joffrey Ballet
yy
3/22'
2002
7
and the New York City Ballet, perform
two different programs of new repertoire
from artistic director Tharp, renowned for
her innovative choreography that tran-
scends both modern dance and traditional
ballet idioms, 8 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m.
Sunday, March 23-24, at the Power Center
in Ann Arbor. $20-$40. (734) 764-2538.
LAUGH LINES
petty and storytelling 1 p.m. Sunday, March
24, at The Ark in Ann Arbor, $7; (734) 761-
1451. They'll perform children's concerts fea=
turing songs about animals 11 a.m., 1 and 2 •
p.m. Saturday, March 30, in the Detroit
Zoo's Wildlife Interpretive Gallery, free with
museum admission; (248) 541-5835.
THE ART SCENE
Congregation T'Chiyah hosts Shabbat
GAIL ZIMM ERMAN
Comedian Lewis Black appears every
services speaker Jeffrey Abt, an artist and
Arts
Eutei taiiiineiit
Wednesday night on The Daily Show with
Edit or
associate professor of art in the department
John Stewart on Comedy Central, focus-
of art and art history at WSU, speaking on
ing his satirical comments on everyday
Modern Art and Jewish Self Criticism: One
happenings. He appears with comic D.J. Hughley
Painter's Reflections on Clement Greenberg's
7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 24, at Hill Auditorium in
Modernism 10 a.m. Saturday, March 23, at the
Ann Arbor. $20-$23. (248) 645-6666.
Royal Oak's Women's Club, 404 S. Pleasant St., in
Royal Oak. (313) 366-0292.
THE BIG SCREEN
C-Pop Gallery and Nolansays! Productions host
Cure, filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 1997 film
Springball, an evening of original visual art, move-
about a police detective tracking a series of identical
ment, dance, film and sound featuring nearly a
murders, screens at the Detroit -Film Theatre 7:30 p.m.
dozen Detroit-area artists, 7-11 p.m. Saturday,
Monday, March 25. Due to its disturbing images, no
March 23, at C-Pop, 4160 Woodward Ave., in
one under 18 admitted. $6. (313) 833-3237.
Detroit. $10/door. (313) 833-9901.
New York City's Pace Gallery presents fine-art,
limited-edition prints from artists Jim Dine, Sol
Niagara's paintings will be on
LeWitt,.Louise Nevelson and more 1-5 p.m.
display at Pure Detroit.
Saturday, March 23, at the Ann Arbor. Art Center,
117 W Liberty.. (734) 994-8004, Ext. 104.
Pure Detroit hosts the exhibit Tomorrow's
Another Night, the "True Crime" paintings of the
artist Niagara, March 24-30. Opening reception: 7
p.m.-midnight Saturday, March 23, in the Fisher
Building Lobby. (313) 873-7873.
Royal Oak's Wearley Gallery hosts an. exhibit of
mixed-metal vases by Thomas Madden, head of
Vocalist Janis Siegel of
metalsmithing at College for Creative Studies,
the Manhattan Transfer
March 23-April 27. Opening reception: 6-8 p.m.
sings in Ann Arbor.
Saturday, March 23. (248) 549-3016.
The 21st annual Audrey Levy Spring Art Fair,
featuring 137 artists and works in all media, runs 10
THE SMALL SCREEN
a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday,
March 23-24, at Washtenaw Farm Council
PBS's series Live From Lincoln Center presents
Grounds, 5055 Ann Arbor-Saline Road. $3/under
George Gershwin's classic 1935 opera, Porgy and
10 free. (734) 995-7281.
Bess, performed by the New York City Opera, 3
Organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts, Artisan
p.m. Sunday, March 24, on Detroit Public
Painters: American Folk Portraits and Landscapes of
Television-Channel 56.
the 18th and 19th Centuries continues at Meadow
Brook Art Gallery on the campus of Oakland
FAMILY FuN
University through April 10. (248) 370-3005.
The Detroit News Young People's Concerts for
children ages 4-11 presents the Detroit Symphony
WHATNOT
Orchestra performing a program titled Voyages
Across the Seas 11 a.rn. Saturday, March 23, at
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy
Orchestra Hall. $8-$25. (313) 576-5111.
Wasserstein discusses the creation of contemporary
Philadelphia-based husband-and-wife duo David and
female identity in literary works and plays 7:30 p.m.
Jenny Heider-Klevans join together in a performance
Tuesday, March 26, at the Michigan Theater in Ann
incorporating singing, movement, sign language, pup-
Arbor. Free. (734) 764 9537.
-
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, 30301 Northwestern Highway, Suite 200, MI 48334; fax us at (248) 539-3075; or e-mail to gzimmerman@thejewishnews.com Notice must be received at least three
weeks before the scheduled event. Photos are appreciated but canDot be returned. All events and dates listed in the Out & About column are subject to change.