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Ann Arbor's Performance
Network Jan. 12-Feb. 19.
The play is a co-produc-
In 1941, the Nazis
tion between JET and
established Terezin
Performance Network. $22-
(Theresienstadt) as
$34. Performance times and
a temporary ghetto
Gail Zi mmerman
tickets: (734) 663-0681;
for Czech Jews on
Art s Editor
performancenetwork.org .
their way to the
The Village Players stage
death camps; more
Neil Simon's comedy-drama Lost
than 19,000 men, women and children
In Yonkers — the playwright's only
died. Despite the terror, starvation and
work to win both a Tony Award and
desperate conditions, Terezin internees
a Pulitzer Prize — 8 p.m. Friday and
produced a rich and creative cultural
Saturday, Jan. 13-14 and 20-21, with 2
community filled with music, art and
p.m. Sunday matinees on Jan. 15 and
educational activity. At 8 p.m. Tuesday,
22. Two teenage boys are forced to live •
Jan. 17, at the Berman Center for the
with their tyrannical grandmother
Performing Arts in West Bloomfield, the
Jewish Community Center will host Will in her emotionally dysfunctional
household at the beginning of World
to Create/Will to Live: The Music of
War II; a small-time gangster, a
Terezin, a satellite broadcast from New
mentally challenged daughter and
York's 92nd Street Y of a concert featur-
two other children who live in fear
ing music primarily played and written
of Grandma comprise the rest of the
in Terezin; the concert features the Nash
family. The Village Players Playhouse
Ensemble of London, with baritone
is located at 34660 Woodward,
Wolfgang Holzmair. Tickets are $5. (248)
Birmingham. $17. (248) 644-2075;
661-1900; theberman.org .
birrninghamvillageplayers.com.
WSU's Hilberry Theatre stages Frank
POP/ ROCK/ JAZZ/ FOLK
Langella's Cyrano, a modern interpreta-
tion of Edmond Rostand's 19th-century
An Evening of Yiddish Music, featur-
Cyrano de Bergerac, running in rotat-
ing Cantor Dan Gross, Lauren Sluice
ing repertory at the Hilberry with The
Gross and Marty Liebman, takes
Cripple of Inishmaan and Summer and
place 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 14, at
Smoke until March 20. Opening weekend
Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington
is Jan. 13-14, with performances 8 p.m.
Hills. $10 per person/free for synagogue
Friday and 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday. 4743
members. RSVP to (248) 851-5100 or
Cass Avenue, Detroit. $12-$30. (313)
charwood@adatshalom.org.
577-2972; hilberry.com .
The songs of George Gershwin will
fill Detroit's Orchestra Hall in Gershwin
and the American Songbook, DSO Pops
concerts conducted by Bob Bernhardt
Comic Jeffrey Ross
and featuring the vocals of Ann
— ne Jeffrey Ross
Hampton Callaway with Ted Rosenthal
Lifschultz — the
on piano, 10:45 a.m. Friday, 8 p.m.
Roastmaster General
Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13-15.
of Comedy Central's
Tickets start at $19. (313) 576-5111;
celebrity roasts and
detroitsymphony.com .
Jeffrey Ross
a no-holds-barred
roaster for the last
ON THE STAGE
nine, including those last year of
Donald Trump and Charlie Sheen
The Berman Center for the Performing
(who crowned Ross a "One-Man Verbal
Arts in West Bloomfield presents
Assault Unit"), takes the stage at the
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat, a musical retelling of the
Magic Bag for an early show (doors
open at 7 p.m.) and a late show (doors
story of Joseph and his brothers, 7
p.m. Thursday, Jan. 12; 8 p.m. Saturday,
open at 10 p.m.) Saturday, Jan. 14. 22920
Woodward, Ferndale.
Jan. 14; 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 15; 7 p.m.
$28. (248) 544-3030;
Thursday, Jan. 19; 8 p.m. Saturday
themagicbag.com.
January 21; and 3 p.m. Sunday, January
22. Tickets are $16 each; group discounts
NPR's Wait, Wait
... Don't Tell Me host
available for organizations. (248) 661-
Peter Sagal leads
1900; theberman.org.
a rotating panel of
Fresh off its run at Jewish Ensemble
comedians, humorists
Theatre, French Jewish playwright
Peter Segal
and journalists, lis-
Yasmina Reza's comedy of (bad)
tener contestants and
manners, God of Carnage, a battle
celebrity guests through a comic review
of wits and will between two couples
whose children have gotten into a play-
ground altercation, takes the stage at
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