Best Bets CLASSICAL NOTES Violinist Joshua Bell, accompanied by pianist Simon Mulligan, performs in a Chamber Music Society of Detroit concert 8 p.m. Saturday, March 27, at Seligman Performing Arts Center in Beverly Hills. $20-$67. (248) 855-6070. Hailed as one of the most exciting new keyboard talents in years, Chinese-born pianist Lang Lang performs works by Schumann, Haydn, Schubert, Tan Dun, Chopin and Mozart 8 p.m. Thursday, April 1, at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor. $10-$50. (734) 764-2538. Pianist Piotr Anderszewski joins conductor Lawrence Foster and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in a concert featuring pieces by Esa-Pekka Salonen, Mozart and Schumann 10:45 a.m. and 8 p.m. Friday and 8:30 p.m. Saturday, April 2-3, at the Max M. Fisher Music Center in Detroit. $15- $105. (313) 576-5111. POP/ROCK/JAZZ/FOLK A resident Lincoln Center orchestra featuring 18 prominent soloists from the Latin jazz scene, the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra takes the stage 8 p.m. Saturday, March 27, at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor. $10-$40. (734) 764-2538. The Ark in Ann Arbor hosts folk artists Susan Werner, 8 p.m. Saturday, March 27, $15; Joan Baez, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 28, $25-$45; and John McCutcheon, 8 p.m. Friday, April 2, $17.50. (734) 761-1451. New York-based singer-songwriter Jen Chapin (Harry's daughter) performs at Ferndale's Magic Bag Tuesday, March 30. Doors at 8 p.m. $8. (248) 544-3030. Texan-born Jewish rocker Ben Kweller performs 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 30, at Royal Oak Music Theatre. Doors at 6:30 p.m. $15. (248) 645-6666. Jazz vocalist Sheila Landis brings her six-piece group Brazilian Love Affair to the Lila Jones Theater at Oakland Community College in Royal Oak 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 2. $15. (248) 246-2627. Featuring a different lineup each night of new and veteran acoustic folk artists, the third annual acoustic showcase benefit for the Motor City Music Foundation/Detroit Music Awards (to be held April 23 at the State Theater) takes place 7 p.m.-midnight Friday and Saturday, April 2-3, at Ferndale's Xhedos Cafe. $5 cover. (248) 399-3946, Ext. 10. - . ON THE STAGE J14 3/26 2004 48 WSU's Hilberry Theatre presents Robert Schenkkan's The Kentucky Cycles, Parts I and II, a two-part epic following a 200-year history of three families' servitude to land and blood. Running in repertory through May 15, Part I debuts 7 p.m. Friday, April 1, and Part II debuts 7 p.m. Saturday, April 2. Call for additional show times. $12-$20. (313) 577-2972. In a tribute to one "of U-M's most 3, at the Power Center, $15 adults/$7 famous alumni, the Department of children. (734) 764-2538. Theatre and Drama presents An Arthur Miller Celebration, combining scenes from both well-known and rarely per- LAUGH LINES formed works by the renowned play- Comedian Steve Brewer; host of his wright as well as notes from his autobiog- own standup comedy special on raphy Timebends, 8 p.m. Fridays and Showtime, debuts Blue Monday, an GAIL ZIMMERMAN Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, April 2- Arts 6- Lifi, Editor evening of "dirty comedy" with some of 11, at Trueblood Theatre, located in the the best politically incorrect comedians in Frieze Building on the Ann Arbor cam- Detroit, the last Monday of each month, pus. $8-$15. (734) 764-2538. Arthur Miller will beginning 8 p.m. Monday, March 29, at Mark appear in a symposium about his work 10 a.m. Ridley's Comedy Castle. $7. (248) 542-9900: Thursday, April 1, in the Mendelssohn Theatre, 911 N. University in Ann Arbor; open to the public/admission is free. THE BIG SCREEN West Bloomfield's Yolanda Fleischer directs The Winner of six European Film Awards, including Drawer Boy, Michael Healy's play about an eager best picture, screenplay and actor, Good Bye, young actor who volunteers to help on a farm and Lenin! (Germany — 2003 — Wolfgang Becker), a stumbles upon keys to painful memories, 8:30 p.m. comedy set during German reunification in 1989 Thursdays and Fridays, 3 and 8:30 p.m. Saturdays and 1990, screens at the Detroit Film Theatre at the and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Sundays, April 1-May 23, at DIA 7 and 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 4 Detroit Repertory Theatre. $17. (313) 868-1347. and 7 p.m. Sunday, March 26-28. $5.50-$6.50. Chelsea's Purple Rose Theatre Company presents (313) 833-3237. the Michigan premiere of The Underpants, an adap- Cranbrook Art Museum's 20th Century Art and tation of Carl Sternheim's classic 1910 farce by actor Design Film Series screens Daniel Libeskind: Steve Martin, April 1-June 5. Call for show times. Welcome to the 21st Century, in which the archi- $22.50-$32.50. (734) 433-7673. tect, his critics and supporters air their views on the Jewish Museum in Berlin and Libeskind's other con- troversial projects, 1 p.m. Sunday, March 28, at the DANCE FEVER museum. Free with admission. (877) 462-7262.* Les Ballets Africains, Africa's most accomplished touring company, brings a mix of traditional dance, music, acrobatics and storytelling to the Detroit FAMILY FUN Opera House 8 p.m. Saturday, March 27. $28-$43. The Detroit News Young People's Concerts pres- (313) 237-7464. ents The Way We Work, in which the Detroit Billed as a "Middle Eastern Riverdance, the Symphony Orchestra demonstrates how sounds Bellydance Superstars perform 7 p.m. (doors at 6 come together to make beautiful music with selec- p.m.) and 10 p.m. (doors at 9 p.m.) Saturday, March tions from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, 10 a.m. and 27, at Ferndale's Magic Bag. $20. (248) 544-3030. 11:30 a.m. Saturday, March 27, at Orchestra Hall. Inspired by the Tennessee William's play, the $10-$45. (313) 576-5111. North Carolina Dance Theatre performs A Streetcar Named Desire, a work choreographed by Mark Diamond that incorporates jazz, contemporary and THE ART SCENE classical music, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday The 26th annual Ann Arbor Spring Art Fair runs and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 1-4, at the 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Detroit Opera House. $25-$70. (313) 237-7464 Sunday, March 27-28, on the Washtenaw Farm Eisenhower Dance Company and the Warren Council Grounds, 5055 Ann Arbor-Saline Rd. $5. Symphony Orchestra come together in Music in (800) 888-9489. Motion, choreographed by Laurie Eisenhower The Detroit Institute of Arts hosts the 67th annu- and featuring music by Britten, Respighi, Satie al Detroit Public Schools Student Exhibition, fea- and Gershwin, 8 p.m. Friday, April 2, at turing hundreds of objects in all media by students Macomb Center for the Performing Arts. $15- in kindergarten through 12th grade, March 27-May $22. (586) 286 2222. 8, at the Detroit Public Library, across Woodward Tricodex, a new work by French cinema, circus Avenue from the museum. (313) 833-4202. and theater artist Philippe Decoufle, who staged Ferndale's Lawrence St. Gallery presents the opening and closing ceremonies of the Exposures: Photography '04, an exhibit and com- Albertville, France, Olympics, features 30 dancers, petition juried by Linda Soberman, March 30-April 150 costumes and video projections and will be performed 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 2-3, at 30. Opening reception: 7-10 p.m. Friday, April 2. (248) 544-0394. the Power Center in Ann Arbor, $14-$42. There In advance of its "Celebrate Glass Month" show will be a family performance 1 p.m. Sunday, April opening April 4, the Janice Charach Epstein Gallery - 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, 29200 Northwestern Highway, Suite 110, Southfield, MI 48034; fax us at (248) 304-8885; or e-mail to gzimmerman@thejewishnews.com Notice must be received at least three weeks before the scheduled event. Photos are appreciated but cannot be returned. All events and dates listed in the Out & About column are subject to change.