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ring Ross Grossman,
come to town, Oct. 5 30. Show
8 p.m. Friday and
times and tickets: (248) 377-
Saturday and 2:30 p.m.
3300; mbtheatre.com.
Sunday, Sept. 30-Oct.
The University of Michigan
2. $15. 21730 Madison,
Department of Theatre and
Dearborn.
Drama presents Tennessee
Gail Zimmerman
(313) 561-8587;
Williams' (the 100th anni-
Arts Editor
playersguildofdearborn.
versary of his birth is being
org.
celebrated this year) Suddenly
The Oakland Theatre Arts Guild mounts Last Summer, a one-act play considered
a production of The Breakfast Club, an
one of Williams' starkest and most poetic
adaptation of the John Hughes teen flick
works, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday
of the same name, 7:30 p.m. Friday and
and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6-16,
Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 30-Oct.
at the Arthur Miller Theatre on the U-M's
9, at the Starlight Theatre, 7370 Highland
North Campus in Ann Arbor. $26 general
Road, Waterford. $10-$13. (248) 886-8880;
admission/ $10 students. (734) 764-2538;
starlighttheater.net .
music.umich.edu.
The UDM Theatre Company opens
The Farmington Players present Harper
its 41st season with Lee Blessing's
Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird Sept. 30-Oct.
Eleemosynary, a three-generation play in
22 at their Barn Theater, 32332 W. 12 Mile
which a mother, daughter and granddaugh-
Road, Farmington Hills. $16. Show times
ter examine their relationships with one
and tickets: (248) 553-2955;
another, 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 2 p.m.
farmingtonplayers.org.
Sunday, Sept. 30-Oct. 9, at the Marygrove
College Theatre, 8425 W McNichols Road,
LAUGH LINES
Detroit. $18 adults/$9 students. (313) 993-
3270; theatre.udmercy.edu .
Comedian Gary
The University Musical Society presents
Gulman, a finalist on
The Infernal Comedy: Confession of a
the reality-talent show
Serial Killer, an evening of true-crime
Last Comic Standing,
dramatics, unexpected dark humor and
offers his absurdist
Baroque music starring John Malkovich,
observations about daily
8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, at Hill Auditorium,
occurrences 8 and 10:30
825 N. University Ave., Ann Arbor. The
p.m. Friday-Saturday,
Gary Gulman
Infernal Comedy is based on the real-life
Sept. 30-Oct. 1, at Mark
story of Jack Unterweger (Malkovich),
Ridley's Comedy Castle,
a convicted murderer and acclaimed
310 S. Troy St., Royal Oak. $20. (248) 542-
prison poet who, after being pardoned by
9900; comedycastle.com .
Austrian President Kurt Waldheim in 1990,
was convicted of the brutal murder of 11
THE BIG SCREEN
prostitutes in three countries, including
the U.S. $10-$75. (734) 764-2538;
The Detroit Film Theatre at the Detroit
ums.org.
Institute of Arts shows On the Bowery
Meadow Brook Theatre opens its sea-
(1956), Lionel Rogosin's powerful nonfic-
son with the Michigan premiere of Ray
tion film chronicling three days on New
Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way
York's skid row that in 2008 was inducted
Comes, about two boys who share a ter-
into the Library of Congress' National Film
rifying experience after a mysterious man, Registry, 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 1. It will be
Mr. Dark (Aaron Alpern), and his carnival paired with The Perfect Team (2010), a por-
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Praised for her color,
agility and breath
control and the first
prize-winner of the 2009
Freiburg International
Clarinet Competition
in Germany, clarinetist
and Israeli native Moran
Moran Katz
Katz performs exten-
sively throughout the
U.S, Europe and Asia as a soloist, recitalist
and chamber musician. Her upcoming
season includes a tour of Israel and a stop
at the Detroit Institute of Arts, where she
will perform, joined by pianist Amy Yang,
the music of Johannes Brahms, Robert
Schumann and Alban Berg 1 and 3 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 2. The family concerts are free
with museum admission. (313) 833-7900;
dia.org.
POP / ROCK / JAZZ / FOLK
"Ashokan Farewell," the haunting song
that appeared in Ken Burns' The Civil
War, is not a 19th-century folk song as
many assume but the creation of fiddler
Jay Ungar, who describes the tune as
"a Scottish lament written by a Jewish
guy from the Bronx." Ashokan, a camp
in the Catskill Mountains not far from
Woodstock, N.Y., is the place where Ungar
and his guitarist wife, Molly Mason, have
run the Ashokan Fiddle and Dance Camps
for adults and families. Ungar and Mason
bring their renditions of Appalachian,
Cajun and Celtic fiddle tunes, Civil War
classics and more to the Ark in Ann Arbor
7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 2. $17.50. (734) 761-
1451; theark.org.
ON THE STAGE
The Players Guild of Dearborn presents
Ernest Thompson's On Golden Pond, an
adaptation of the Oscar-winning screen
version directed by Alan Ellias and star-
trait of the making of On the Bowery. $6.50-
$7.50. (313) 833-4005; tickets.dia.org .
To mark its 25th anniversary year, a fully
staged version of Andrew Lloyd Webber &
Cameron Mackintosh's The Phantom of
the Opera, performed at the Royal Albert
Hall in London, will be screened 2 p.m.
Sunday Oct. 2, with additional showings
7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, Oct. 5-6,
and Tuesday, Oct. 11, in movie theaters
nationwide. For theater locations and
ticket prices, visit fathomevents.com .
THE ART SCENE
For you penguin lovers out there, the
Detroit Zoo will present Penguins: A
Photographic Expedition, 120 digi-
tal photographs featuring 12 species of
penguins by artist and photographer J.J.
L'Heureux, at the Ford Education Center
Oct. 1-Dec. 31. L'Heureux will give an art-
ist's talk 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, followed by
a book signing. Free with zoo admission.
RSVP: (248) 336-5812; detroitzoo.org .
FAMILY FUN
Max & Ruby, the popular show on
Nickelodeon and Nick Jr., presents Max
& Ruby's Bunny Party, a live musical
adventure that follows the bunnies as they
plan a surprise party for a super-secret
guest, while highlighting the universal
nature of sibling relationships, 1 and 4
p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, at the Royal Oak
Music Theatre, 318 W. Fourth St. Royal
Oak. $29.50-$39.50. (248) 399-2980;
royaloakmusictheatre.corn.
PuppetART: Detroit Puppet Theater
launches a month of performances of The
Firebird, with rod puppets created in the
tradition of Russian folklore accompanied
by the music of Stravinsky and Russian
folk songs, 2 p.m. Saturdays, Oct. 1-29.
Recommended for ages 5 and up. $5 chil-
dren/$10 adults; $8 puppet making work-
shops following each performance. (313)
961-7777; puppetart.org.
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Nate Bloom
Special to the Jewish News
New Films
These films open Friday, Sept. 30:
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50/50: Twenty-seven-year-old Adam
(Joseph Gordon-Levitt, 30) is sud-
denly diagnosed with cancer. His girl-
friend (Bryce Dallas Howard), his best
friend (Seth Rogen) and his mother
(Anjelica Huston) deal with the news
and Adam's treatment in different
ways. Meanwhile, Adam bonds with
his young therapist (Anna Kendrick).
Directed by Jonathan Levine (The
Wackness), 34.
Dream House co-stars Rachel
50
September 29 s 2011
AN
Weisz, 41, and Daniel Craig as a mar-
ried couple who relocate with their
two kids to a quaint New England town
only to find out their house was the
scene of a grisly murder of a mother
and her children. They soon come to
realize their own family is in danger.
Margaret was filmed in 2007 but
tied up in bitter
legal fights about
director Kenneth
Lonergan's insistence
on having the "final
cut" (which he got).
Lonergan, 48, whose
mother is Jewish, is
Lonergan
best known for the
Oscar-nominated You Can Count on
Me (2000). Anna Paquin stars as Lisa
Cohen, a 17-year-old New Yorker who
is torn apart by the belief she inadver-
tently played a role in a fatal traffic
accident. This belief leads her to emo-
tionally brutalize herself and everyone
she comes in contact with. Appearing
in smallish supporting roles: Jennie
Berlin, 61 (daughter of Elaine May,
79), and Matthew Broderick, 48, who
is Lonergan's real-life best friend.
What's Your Number? stars Anna
Faris as an unemployed and unmarried
young woman whose younger sister
(Ari Graynor, 28) is newly engaged.
Faris' character thinks that out of her
20 ex-boyfriends,
she might have over-
looked Mr. Right and
decides to talk to all
of them. Graynor, best
known for playing
goofy, funny, drug-
addled supporting
characters (Nick and
Norah's Infinite Playlist, Holy Rollers),
recently talked about her Number
role: "So, for the first time, I'm actu-
ally playing a little bit of a straight
man to the [lead character's] crazy
one. I don't drink, I don't do any drugs,
I have a wedding dress and I'm not
throwing up. That was a score."