arts & entertainment >> editor's picks &Abo u t CLASSICAL NOTES South Africa, was raised of two engaged couples — Jewish and adopted one deliriously in love, the Temple Israel's Schmier Concert Series Buddhist practices as a other expressing disdain for hosts award-winning duo pianists Yuki central part of his life. each other — Oct. 28-Nov. and Tomoko Mack 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. He's been described as 19. $25-$35. 4743 Cass, 30, in the Schmier Chapel at Temple Israel "strong, subtle, a lyrical Detroit. $20-$30. Show times in West Bloomfield. No admission charge. Gail Zimmerman genius!' He performs 8 and tickets: (313) 577-2972; Arts Editor RSVP: (248) 661-5700; bhoughton@ p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 1, at hilberry.com . temple-israel.org . the Ark in Ann Arbor. Diane Hill and Barbie At 30 years old, French countertenor $15. (734) 761-1451; theark.org . Amann Weisserman, both of Farmington Philippe Jaroussky has already estab- The University Musical Society pres- Hills, are the founders of Two Muses lished himself as one of the major singers ents Audra McDonald for an evening of Theatre, a new professional theater in the international musical world. Hear Broadway classics and American standards in West Bloomfield. Their first season him, along with the Cleveland-based 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4, at Hill Auditorium will begin on the stage at Barnes & Baroque orchestra Apollo's Fire, in a in Ann Arbor. The four-time Tony win- Noble, 6800 Orchard Lake Road, in West University Musical Society concert titled ner is fresh off her acclaimed role as Bess Bloomfield, with a production of The Odd Handel and Vivaldi Fireworks, 7:30 p.m. in the American Repertory Theatre's Couple (female version), with Hill and Thursday, Nov. 3, at Hill Auditorium, 825 Porgy & Bess, the Gershwin classic Weisserman in the lead roles. Show times N. University Ave., Ann Arbor. Tickets start coming to Broadway in December. Ben are 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3 (preview, $10), at $10. (734) 764-2538; ums.org . Brantley, writing in the New York Times, and 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 called McDonald's Bess "a performance p.m. Sundays, Nov. 4-27 ($15-$18). (248) POP / ROCK / JAZZ / FOLK as complete and complex a work of musi- 850-9919; twomusestheatre.org . cal portraiture as any I've seen in years." Enjoy jazz in a nightclub setting as McDonald will be accompanied by Andy DANCE FEVER Kerrytown Concert House presents Einhorn on piano, Mark Vanderpoel on the Hamilton Trio, with drummer Jeff bass and Gene Lewin on drums. Tickets The contemporary Eisenhower Dance Hamilton, bassist Christoph Luty and start at $10. (734) 764-2538; ums.org . Ensemble opens its 2011-2012 season with pianist Tamir Hendelman, 7 and 9 p.m. On The Move, a program of premieres and Saturday, Oct. 29. Hendleman began his ON THE STAGE audience favorites, 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 keyboard studies at age 6, attending the p.m. Sunday, Oct. 29-30, at Varner Recital Anazagi Conservatory in Tel Aviv, Israel. In Wayne State University's newly renovated Hall on the campus of Oakland University, 1984, his family moved to Los Angeles. A Studio Theatre presents Norwegian play- Rochester. $18/$10 students. (248) 370- cash bar will be available. $10-$30. 415 N. wright Henrick Ibsen's A Doll's House, 3013; starticketsplus.com . Fourth Ave, Ann Arbor. Reservations: (734) which questions the late-1800s Victorian Founded by dance superstar Rasta 769-2999; kerrytownconcerthouse.com . domestic roles of men and women, 8 p.m. Thomas in 2007, the Bad Boys of Dance Aish HaTorah presents the Chasidic Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 27-29. This stag- push the bounds of dance with athletic rock band 8th Day in concert 4 p.m. ing of the play, which premiered in 1879, jumps, endless turns and individuality. In Sunday, Oct. 30, at the Berman Center for takes creative license with a modern, Rock the Ballet, 7:30 p.m. Saturday and the Performing Arts on futuristic approach to the produc- 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 29-30, at the Detroit the campus of the Jewish tion and design, incorporating an Opera House, the all-male troupe will take Community Center in indie-rock soundtrack, steampunk old forms and techniques and make them West Bloomfield. $18-$36. influences and dance. $10-$12. new again. 1526 Broadway, Detroit. $29-76. (248) 327-3579; In the lower level of the Hilberry (313) 237-SING; michiganopera.org . aishinthewoods.com . Theatre on the WSU campus; 4743 Like Leonard Cohen, Cass, Detroit. (313) 577-2972; THE BIG SCREEN one of his musical heroes, wsustudio.com . indie folk artist Gregory WSU's Hilberry Theatre stages The University Musical Society, in col- Alan Isakov, origi- William Shakespeare's comedy laboration with the Michigan Theater, nally from Johannesburg, Gregory Alan Isakov Much Ado About Nothing, the story presents a screening of British Jewish etws v ilig I Nate Bloom Special to the Jewish News L Koppel Comeback Xi Veteran TV news journalist Ted av Koppel, 71, has signed on as a corre- spondent for the new NBC newsmaga- zine, Rock Center, which debuts 10 1111. 46 p.m. Monday, Oct. 31. 160 11 Anchored by Brian Williams, the program replaces The Playboy Club, a drama with anemic ratings. Koppel, of course, was the host of ABC's Nightline for 25 years. Other Rock correspondents include Meredith Viera and Harry Smith, with the Today show's Matt Lauer, 53, listed as a Rock contributor. 42 October 27 • 2011 High Holiday Notes Actor Jake Gyllenhaal, 30, was spot- ted attending Yom Kippur services at a Manhattan synagogue. Gyllenhaal, like his sister, actress Maggie Gyllenhall, 33, are the children of a non-Jewish father (director Stephen Gyllenhaal) and a Jewish mother (screenwriter Naomi Foner). A few years back, Foner said her own Jewish childhood was grounded in social justice politics rather than formal 1%. . The Gyllenhaals religious obser- vance and that her children were raised the same way. However, in the last year, Maggie has flat out called herself "Jewish." She lives in New York City, where the siblings appar- ently shared the holiday. Attending Yom Kippur services at a Sydney, Australia, synagogue were comedic actor Sacha Baron Cohen, who turned 40 on Oct. 13, and his wife, Isla Fisher, 33. Fisher grew up in Australia. The couple divides their time between Cohen and Fisher playwright Arnold Wesker's The Kitchen, in a production by the National Theatre, London, 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30, in Ann Arbor's Michigan Theater. This screening is a delayed cinema broadcast of a live performance at the National Theatre, where, in the kitchen of an enormous West End restaurant in 1950s London, the orders are pil- ing up as chefs, waitresses and porters from across Europe — English, Irish, German, Jewish — argue and flirt. 603 E. Liberty St. $18-$22/$12 students. (734) 764-2538; ums.org . FAMILY FUN Bring kids 5 and older to the Detroit Institute of Arts' Museum Mystery Days and explore the artists whose works haunt the American, European and contempo- rary art galleries. 6-9:30 p.m. Friday and 1-4:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 28-30. Free with museum admission. (313) 833-7900; dia.org . The Detroit Historical Society hosts the 10th annual Treats in the Streets, for children ages 3-12, noon-3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30, at the Detroit Historical Museum's Streets of Old Detroit. 5401 Woodward Ave. Admission to the museum is free for chil- dren under 12 dressed in costume. (313) 833-1805; detroithistorical.org . WHATNOT The Southfield Pavilion Antiques Exposition, with a selection of American, European and Asian antiques, runs 2-8 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 28-30. $8 (one paid admis- sion is good for all three days)/free 12 and under. www.AntiquesExposition.com . Fl Please email items you wish to have considered for Out & About to Gail Zimmerman at gzimmerman®thejewishnews.com . Notice is requested three weeks before the scheduled event. Australia, Los Angeles and Cohen's native Britain. Some hours before Yom Kippur began, the couple were photographed boating with their daughters, Olive, 3, and Elula, 1. Fisher came from New York, where she just finished filming Bachelorette, a comedy starring Fisher, Kirsten Dunst and Lizzy Caplan, 29. Caplan (Party Down on Starz, Amy Burley on HBO's True Blood) has just been cast as the girlfriend of one of Zoey Deschanel's male roommates on the FOX TV comedy New Girl. This new series is a big ratings winner, and Caplan's three-episode arc on New Girl will air next month. Her character may turn into a series regular.