( arts & entertainment >> editor's picks About CLASSICAL NOTES 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- - 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. Jews s m I Ern i Nate Bloom Special to the Jewish News New Films These films open Friday, Sept. 30: it& 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."