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. 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