arts & entertainment >> editor's picks FfAbout CLASSICAL NOTES Led by Music Director Leonard Slatkin, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra offers five free community concerts before the Oct. 8 start of the 2011-2012 classical season, including a 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 2, concert at Orchestra Hall in Detroit. To reserve seats, call (313) 576-5111. ON THE STAGE Performance Network in Ann Arbor presents Donald Margulies' 2010 Tony- nominated play, Time Stands Still, about a photojournalist recently back from Iraq after being injured by a roadside bomb who must choose between returning to the front or settling down with her reporter boyfriend, Sept. 23-Oct. 23. $22 $41/senior and student discounts. Show times and tickets: (734) 663-0681; performancenetwork.org . A scene from A Night in the Ukraine, at the Hi lberry Theatre The Hilberry Theatre opens its 49th season with a musical double feature, A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine. A Day in Hollywood is a musical tribute to the screen stars and produc- tions of the 1930s; A Night in the Ukraine transports the audience to a black-and- white Marx Brothers-like "film" loosely based on Anton Chekhov's The Bear. The musical runs for four consecutive weeks v ia mum Nate Bloom Special to the Jewish News Sports Notes a) The following Jewish players (at least one Jewish parent and were raised Jewish or secular) are on an NFL team roster as of Sept.13 (with the aid of Jewish Sports Review). An (M) or an (F) following the player's name indicates which parent is Jewish if the player doesn't have two Jewish parents: Greg Camarillo, 29, (M), wide receiver, Minnesota; Brian De La Puente, 26, (M), guard, New Orleans; Antonio Garay, 31, (M), nose tackle, San Erik Lorig 100 September 22 2011 (rather than in the usual repertory) Sept. 23-Oct. 15. $12-$30. Show times and tick- ets: (313) 577-2972; hilberry.com. Fresh off its highly successful Broadway run, Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles, a live, note-by-note, mul- timedia Fab Four tribute performance to benefit JARC, takes place 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 18, at the Fox Theatre in Detroit. Seating assignments begin Sept. 26. For complete ticket information, call (248) 538-6611 or go to jarc.org . DANCE FEVER The first dance event of the 2011-2012 University Musical Society season is the Mark Morris Dance Group, performing 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Sept 23-24, at the Power Center in Ann Arbor. The dance ensemble's presentations feature three recent dances never before performed in Ann Arbor, including Excursions (2008) (set to music by Samuel Barber), Festival Dance (2011) (set to music by Johann Hummel) and Socrates (2010) (set to music by Erik Satie). $18-$48. (734) 764- 2538; ums.org. THE BIG SCREEN The Alloy Orchestra, including percus- sionist and clarinetist Ken Winokur, returns to the Detroit Film Theatre Sept. 23-25 to accompany silent films including Blackmail (Alfred Hitchcock, 1929; free with DIA admission), 7:30 p.m. Friday; Not Just for Kids (family friendly silent shorts), 3 p.m. Saturday; Wild and Weird (a new compilation of silent shorts veer- ing from charming to outrageous), 7:30 p.m. Saturday; and From Morning To Diego; Kyle Kosier, 32, (M), guard, Dallas; Erik Lorig, 24, tight end/full- back, Tampa Bay; Taylor Mays, 23, (M), safety, Cincinnati; Adam Podlesh, 28, punter, Chicago; Sage Rosenfels, 33, (F), back-up quarterback (injured reserve), New York Giants; Geoff Schwartz, 25, offensive tackle (injured reserve), Carolina; and rookie Gabe Carimi, 23, right tackle, Chicago. Veterans David Binn (San Diego) and Igor Olshansky (Dallas) were cut just before the season began. Opening Friday, Sept. 23, is Moneyball, about how real-life Oakland A's general manager Bennett Miller Midnight (premiere of a recently discovered 1920 German expressionist mas- terwork), 4:30 p.m. Sunday. $8-$10. (313) 833-4005; tickets.dia.org . Detroit Public Television- Channel 56 broadcasts the 1971 film classic Fiddler on the Roof8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23. FAMILY FUN Dan Zanes & Friends perform in two one hour University Musical Society fam- ily concerts, 1 and 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 25, at the Power Center in Ann Arbor. They will feature music from the Grammy AwardNwinning group's new release, Little Nut Tree (Festival Five Records), their first family album in five years. "I actu- ally think of my music as all-ages music, and this is what makes us different from other people in the children's field:' Zanes, who is raising his children Jewish with his Jewish wife, told the Jewish News in a 2006 interview. "I believe that grandpar- ents and parents are just as important in all this as the kids." $8 children/$16 adults. (734) 764-2538; ums.org . The Detroit Institute of Arts hosts Good Mischief with Gemini — the musical duo of Ann Arbor-based broth- ers San and Laz Slomovits — with sing-alongs, tunes with hand motions and songs from around the world, 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 25, in the Lecture Hall. Free with museum admission. (313) 833-7900; dia.org . scripture, from blessings for the home to ancient scrolls, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 24-25, on S. Old Woodward, Birmingham. theguild.org . Pill Spill, a Orna Amrani: Blessing floor installa- tion by Beverly for the Home, Birmingham Street Fishman, Art Fair. current artist- in-residence and head of the Painting Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art, is on view through September at the Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion. The installation contains more than 120 unique glass capsules, ranging in size from 6 to 15 inches, and creates a sort of "architectural circulatory system." 2245 Monroe St. Free. (419) 255-8000; toledomuseum.org . WHATNOT American Sewing Expo, with education- al presentations, hands-on classes, semi- nars and all-day workshops by industry professionals, runs Friday-Sunday, Sept. 23-25, at the Suburban Collection Showplace (formerly Rock Financial Showplace), 46100 Grand River Ave., Novi. Info and pricing: (248) 889-3111; americansewingexpo.com . THE ART SCENE Please email items you wish to have Common Ground's Birmingham Street Art Fair hosts 190 juried artists, including Orna Amrani, whose hand- made sculptures contain ancient Jewish Zimmerman at gzimmerman®thejewishnews. considered for Out & About to Gail Billy Beane put together winning baseball teams by defying conven- tional wisdom and using computer statistical analysis in drafting and trading for players. Directed by Bennett Miller (Capote), 44, the film stars Brad Pitt (Beane), with Jonah Hill, 27, as Beane's right-hand man. More Mad Mel Mel Gibson has made a deal with Warner Bros. to produce a film on the life of Judah Maccabee. Gibson, who has made anti-Semitic remarks, is the son of Hutton Gibson, a viru- lently anti-Semitic, ultra-traditionalist Catholic who denies the Holocaust. Nonetheless, Mel Gibson produces films on his Jewish faves (like Leonard Cohen and The Three Stooges). com . Notice is requested three weeks before the scheduled event. This weirdness is doubled when one learns that Joe Eszterhas (Basic Instinct) has been signed to do the Maccabee film's screenplay. Eszterhas' background is traditionalist Catholic, too, and his father, Istvan, was investi- gated by the Justice Department for helping Hungarian Catholic fascists persecute and kill Jews during World War II, a fact the younger Eszterhas learned just after writing The Music Box (1989), a fictional feature film about a Hungarian immigrant who is tried for war crimes against Jews. The revelation of his father's background caused Joe, seemingly always pro- Jewish, to be largely estranged from Istvan until his death. It's a strange duo to make a movie about the biggest Chanukah hero.