To Do! CALENDAR E-mail items to calendar@thejewishnews.com Mail items to Calendar, the Jewish News, 29200 Northwestern Highway, Suite 110, Southfield, MI 48034 Fax items to (248) 304-8885 Deadline: noon, Tuesday, nine days prior to publication. iv Check It Out! ARTS & CULTURE View "The Auschwitz Album: The Story of a Transport," an exhibit from Yad Vashem, through April 18, at the Holocaust Memorial Center, 28123 Orchard Lake Road, Farmington Hills. A woman prisoner discovered photos of herself and other Hungarian Jews in an album kept by the SS on same day American forces liberated Dora- Mittlebau German concentration camp. Museum hours: (248) 553-2400. Enjoy a photography show March 30- April 30, at Lawrence Street Gallery, 22620 Woodward, Ferndale. Reception scheduled 6-9 p.m. Friday, April 9. (248) 544-0394. Appreciate mixed media artwork at annual show of WSG Gallery (former Washington Street Gallery), through April 4, at 306 S. Main, Ann Arbor 48104. Opens at noon daily, except Mondays. www.wsg-art.com , (734) 761-2287. CINEMA & STAGE Take in the hilarious yet poignant play Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead! Thursday through Sunday, March 25-28, at 1515 Broadway, Detroit. Production of Frannie Shepherd-Bates' Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company. $15-$18, or pay what you can. Schedule: (313) 408-7269 or www.magentagiraffe.org . Revisit sultry New Orleans at A Streetcar Named Desire, presented by the Stagecrafters Thursdays through Saturdays, March 25-April 11, at Baldwin Theatre, 415 S. Lafayette, Royal Oak. Tickets: $14 and $16. Schedule: (248) 541-6430: • Interactive talkback: Stay to talk about the play with Dr. Marc Rosen, a psychologist and psychoanalyst prac- ticing in Southfield, after performance on Saturday, March 27. See Udi Kapan as Leo Bloom, in a cast that includes Shayna Lax and Mike Brody, as Pontiac Theatre IV presents The Producers by Mel Brooks 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, March 26-27, at Pontiac High School, 1051 Arlene, Pontiac. Tickets: (248) 499-2360. Explore a dark side of American his- tory, but laced with humor, in Stephen Sondheim's Assassins, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 26-27, and 2 p.m. Sunday, March 28, at Village Players Playhouse, 34660 Woodward, Birmingham. Tickets: www.birming- hamvillageplayers.com or (248) 644- 2075. Experience Sleeping Beauty, per- formed by the Tchaikovsky Ballet of Russia, Friday through Sunday, March 26-28, at Detroit Opera House, 1526 Broadway, Detroit. $29-$76. Free ballet classes (intermediate and advanced) for ticket holders and $25 for the general public at 11 a.m. March 27. Dinner-dance package ($89) for March 27 evening performance. Schedule/tickets: (313) 237-SING (7464). www.Michigan0pera.org . •Center Travel: Join bus trip to bal- let performance, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 27. www.jccdet.org . Watch Leslie Ann Handelman as one of the four bored Englishwomen who come alive at the Italian sea- side in Enchanted April at Oakland University's Meadow Brook Theatre, 207 Wilson Hall, Rochester. Weekend shows, March 26-April 11. $24-$39. Box office: (248) 377-3300. Take in the zany comedy, Little Shop of Horrors, April 1-May 9, at Performance Network, 120 E. Huron, Ann Arbor 48104. Show has book and lyrics by Howard Ashman and music by Alan Menken. Tickets: (734) 663-0681 or www.performancenetwork.org . Kids' Magical Passover Explore "The Magic of Passover," a free community-wide program for families with preschoolers during spring break, 10-11:30 a.m. Monday, April 5, at Congregation B'nai Moshe, 6800 Drake, West Bloomfield. Morning includes a magic show by Steve Zieman, stories, songs, crafts and Passover snacks. RSVP by Monday, March 29: cmboffice@bnaimoshe.org or 248) 788-0600. 64 March 25 • 2010 Community Seders Find additional Passover listings under "Youth" and "Shul Food": • Jewish Parents Institute, inside West Bloomfield JCC: Decide soon about attending free pre-seder 10:30 a.m. Sunday, March 28. The JCC's Jewish Family Education sponsors public event, but requires reservation: (248) 432-5472. • Congregation B'nai Moshe, 6800 Drake, West Bloomfield: Reserve now for Passover seder 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 30. $37 adult, $20 ages 4-12. Check payable to B'nai Moshe due in office. (248) 788-0600. • Congregation Shir Tikvah, 3900 Northfield Parkway, Troy 48084: Bring a dish to Passover potluck seder 5:45 p.m. Tuesday, March 30. Rabbi Arnie Sleutelberg will lead and Schmaltz, the klezmer and Yiddish band, will provide music. Contact Joyce May for space availability: (248) 756-3883 or Joyceandrick@ comcast.net . • Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, 1457 Griswold, Detroit, MI 48226: Enjoy a second seder with the congregation 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 30. RSVP with your $20/per person check sent to address above. COMEDY & MUSIC Kerrytown Concert House, 415 N. Fourth, Ann Arbor: Upcoming are Italian pianist Massimiliano Valenti, 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 24, and com- poser-saxophonist Bobby Streng and his group, 7 p.m. Sunday, March 28. Tickets: www.kerrytownconcerthouse. com or (734) 769-2999. Enjoy light refreshments and intimate Nightnotes concert with two Detroit Symphony Orchestra musicians, presented by Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings, 8:30 p.m. Friday, March 26, at Hagopian World of Rugs, 850 S. Woodward, Birmingham. Advance tickets: $20, $10 students; $5 more at door. www.detroitchamberwinds.org or (248) 559-2095. Let the Music in Homes Series entrance you with a Middle Eastern musical performance by the Dearborn Traditional Ensemble 8 p.m. Saturday, March 27, in Detroit's historic Palmer Woods neighborhood. $30.99 admis- sion includes themed food and masters of flute, oud and tablas playing in an architecturally historic home. Get address with ticket order: http://palm- erwoodsmusicinhomes.eventbrite.com/ (313) 891-2514. Applaud for piano soloist Christian Zacharias, making his conducting debut with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, 10:45 a.m. and 8 p.m. Friday, March 26, and 3 p.m. Sunday, downtownsynagogue@gmail.com or (313) 962-4047. • Temple Emanu-EI,14450 W.10 Mile, Oak Park: Rabbi Joseph Klein will lead Passover seder catered by Annabel & Company 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 30. $36 adult, $16 ages 4-12. Contact temple for space availability: (248) 967-4020 or info@emanuel-mich.org . • Congregation Shir Tikvah, 3900 Northfield Parkway, Troy: Gather here with other local Reform congregations for Isaac Meyer Wise Shabbat service/Passover potluck, Friday, April 2. Potluck, 6:30 p.m.; service, 7:45. Metropolitan Detroit Federation of Reform Synagogues providing chicken and beverages; participants should bring a Passover non-dairy side dish in a disposable container. Contact Dave Henig for space availability: dahenig® comcast.net or (248) 682-4992. March 28, at Orchestra Hall, Max Fisher Music Center, 3711 Woodward, Detroit. Music of Bach and Beethoven. Tickets: www.detroitsymphony.com . develop a Middle East peace agree- ment over five sessions. Israeli Dr. Sapir Handelman is one of the modera- tors. Free. www.mindsofpeace.org . Stay up late to see Hannah and Jack Waterstone perform show tunes and more 1-2 a.m. Sunday, March 28 dur- ing the Assembly Line Concert, a nonstop musical marathon through 5 p.m. Thursday, April 1, at A.J.'s Cafe, 240 W. Nine Mile, Ferndale. Come in or follow at assemblylineconcert.com . (248) 399-3946. Get informed as the Institute for Retired Professionals (IRP) concludes its annual Spring Mini-Series Friday, March 26, at the West Bloomfield JCC. Morning: Steve Croley, University of Michigan professor of law, "Two Images of Civil Litigation," 11 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. Afternoon: Shirley Benyas and Bill Premin, singers and actors, "A Tribute to Sholem Aleichem on his 150th Birthday," 1-3 p.m. Free for IRP members; $3 (cash) per session for guests. No RSVP required. www.jccdet. org/specialtyprograms (248) 967- 4030, ext. 2018. Come for the solo debut of American jazz tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins 8 p.m. April 6, at Orchestra Hall, Max Fisher Music Center, 3711 Woodward, Detroit. A pre-concert with the DSO's Civic Jazz Orchestra is 6:30 p.m. in the Music BoxTickets: www.detroit- symphony.com . Purchase tickets now for 10 p.m. sec- ond show of comedian Jerry Seinfeld on Saturday, April 17, at the Fox Theatre, 2211 Woodward, Detroit. The 7 p.m. show sold out. $49-$79. www.tick- master.com or (800) 745-3000. EVENT HOTLINE Participate from the audience at Minds of Peace Experiment (MOPE) continuing 10 a.m. Friday, March 26, at University of Michigan League, 911 N. University, Ann Arbor. The ongoing MOPE negotiating series invites small groups of Israelis and Palestinians to Stock your shelves with Jewish and secular books at "Spring into Summer Used Book Sale," through March 26, at West Bloomfield JCC's library and media center. Hours:10 a.m. daily; closed Saturday. (248) 432-5546 or fmenken@jccdet.org . EVENTS THAT HELP Celebrate fourth anniversary of the eclectic store Leon & Lulu's at celebra- tion noon-4 p.m. Sunday, March 28, at 96 W.14 Mile, Clawson. Event offers contests, raffles, auction, music by Motor City Side Striders. Gilda's Club, the cancer support group in Royal Oak, will get 10 percent of proceeds. (248) 577-0800 or gildasclubdetroit.org .