Best Bets Stagecrafters 2nd Stage presents Cowgirls, an Off-Broadway style musical The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, featuring an all-female cast of six in a under conductor Neeme Jarvi, performs mix of classical and country music, April Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3 • 25-May 11 at Royal Oak's Baldwin ("Scottish"), joined by violinist Helene Theatre. Call for show times. $10. (248) Grimaud playing Bartok's Piano Concerto 541-6430. No. 3, 1:30 and 8 p.m. Friday and 8:30 Rochester Hills' Avon Players mount a p.m. Saturday, April 25-26. $15-$56/$80 production of Kander and Ebb's Cabaret box seats. (313) 576-5111. 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 p.m. GAIL ZIMMERMAN Trio Lyra, featuring Mark Childs on Sundays, April 25-May 17. $15. (248) Arts Entertainment viola, Erica Goodman on harp and 608-9077. Editor Suzanne Shulman on flute, returns to Macomb Center for the Performing Temple Israel in a Schmier Chapel Arts presents the Tony Award-winning Chamber Series concert 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 27, musical Fosse, highlighting the life of the leg- at the temple in West Bloomfield. The Canadian endary dancer/ choreographer, 8 p.m. Friday and trio's repertoire ranges from the Baroque to contem- 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, April 25-26. $40-$45. porary composers. Free and open to the public. For (586) 286-2222. complimentary tickets, call (248) 661-5700. CLASSICAL NOTES POP/ROCK/JAZZ/FOLK Vocalist/keyboardist Dave Katz,guitarist Steve Sweney and bassist Cliff Starbuck, along with the rest of the members of Ekoostik Hookah, perform Friday, April 18, at Ferndale's Magic Bag. Doors at 8 p.m. $15. (248) 544-3030. Folk and bluegrass tunes by banjoist Cathy Fink and electric guitarist Marcy Marxer come to the stage of The Ark in Ann Arbor Saturday, April 19, when the Grammy Award-winning duo perform a family concert 1 p.m. ($7) and an adult concert 8 p.m. ($13.50). (734) 761-1451. The Ark hosts singer/songwriter Dar Williams, in concert at Ann Arbor's Power Center, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 22. Opening act is the Ben Taylor Band, a folk-rock trio led by the son of James Taylor and Carly Simon. $25-$35. (734) 761-1451. All Through the Night: The Music and Lyrics of Cole Porter, an original revue of well-loved Cole Porter songs, will be performed 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 25- 27, at Lucky Buck's Café, 131 E. Michigan Ave., in Saline. $15/includes dessert. (734) 944-8848. ON THE STAGE Ann Arbor's Performance Network stages the Michigan premiere of Sin, Wendy McLeod's corn- edy about a radio traffic reporter who meets the modern incarnations of the seven deadly sins, 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 and 7 p.m. Sundays, April 24-May 18. $19-$27.50/pay what you can April 24. (734) 663-0681. The Spotlight Players perform A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, with book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, $ p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, April 25-May 10, with an addi- tional performance 6 p.m. Sunday, May 4, at the Watertower Theater in Northville. $10-$14. (248) 349-7110. 4/18 2003 62 LAUGH LINES The hyper-wacky Carrot Top brings his comedy of the absurd to the stage of Macomb Center for the Performing Arts 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 24. $33- $42. (586) 286-2222. THE BIG SCREEN Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman's Domestic Violence, observing the caseworkers and the abused victims at a Tampa, Fla., shelter for battered women, screens at the Detroit Film Theatre at the DIA 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 21. $6.50. (313) 833-3237. THE SMALL SCREEN Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport, the Oscar-winning documentary about thousands of Jewish children from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland placed in British foster homes during the Nazi era, airs 9 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, on WTVS-Channel 56. FAMILY FUN Detroit's PuppetArt hosts Natasha Khusid's CarOvan Puppets in Matrioshka's Long Journey, a show about Russian nesting dolls, 2 p.m. Saturday, April 19. $5-$7/$8 workshop. (313) 961-7777. THE ART SCENE The Art Gallery of Windsor presents Critical Graphics from the Weimar Period, an exhibition of prints and drawings made in Germany from 1918- 1933, through June 8. (519) 977-0013. West Bloomfield's Art Leaders Gallery hosts more than 30 national glass artists, including Leon Applebaum, Mark Rosenbaum and Bernard Katz, through April 30. (248) 539-0262. The Michigan Modernism Exposition, featuring 20th-century design, returns to the Southfield Municipal Complex on Evergreen Road 6-10 p.m. Friday (opening night gala featuring jazz artist Kathy Kosins, hors d'oeuvres and cash bar), 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and noon-5 p.m. Sunday, April 25-27. $8/$35 at the door opening night. (586) 469-1706. Congregation Shaarey Zedek works of four living composers ill present a day of music in their presence, including the Sunday, April 27, in Southfield. late Aaron Copland, who was The Cultural Commission so pleased he kissed her on the hosts Southfield pianist Helen Kerwin, with violinist Gail Aiken and cellist Tim Nicolia, at 3 p.m., perform- ing Beethoven's Trio No. 7 ("Archduke") and the Arensky Trio in D Minor. The congregation's Young Artists' Showcase features mezzo-soprano Aviva Ezring, Kerwin Ezring accompanied by Nan McSwain, in a vocal recital of classical operatic and Hebrew selections at 7 p.m. cheek. She continues to teach Kerwin, a popular soloist as piano to students ranging in well as duo and chamber music age from 7 to 80. pianist, has performed the Ezring, the daughter of a w Boca Raton-based rabbi and granddaughter of a retired can- tor, is currently a graduate fel low at the University of Michigan, where she will be receiving her master of music degree in perform- ance Recently featured as a soloist with the Ann Arbor Symphony under the baton of Maestro Arie Lipsky, in June she will perform a program of music by Jewish corn- posers at Temple Israel in her hometown of Charlotte, N.C. Both concerts are free and open to the community at no charge. For more information, call (248) 357-5544. 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