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Performance Network
in Ann Arbor presents the
six-time Tony-winning
World-renowned
romantic musical A Little
countertenor
Night Music, with a score —
David Daniels
including the song "Send in
will star as the
Gail Zimmerman
the Clowns" — by Stephen
Roman general who
Arts Editor
Sondheim, at 7:30 p.m.
conquered Egypt
Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays
and was seduced by
and Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays, Nov.
Cleopatra in Michigan Opera Theatre's
15-Dec. 30 (with additional matinees at 3
first baroque opera, Handel's Julius
p.m. Saturdays, Nov. 24 and Dec. 15 and
Caesar, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10;
29). 120 E. Huron St. $24-$39. (734) 663-
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14; 7:30 p.m.
0681; performancenetwork.org.
Friday, Nov. 16; 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov.
17; and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 18, at the
THE ART SCENE
Detroit Opera House. The production
is set in the early 1930s on an MGM
David Klein Gallery presents Liz Cohen:
back lot where an exotic picture with an
On the River Road, from Presidio to
Egyptian setting is being filmed. Rising
Terlingua through Dec. 8. This past
American countertenor Anthony Roth
summer, Cohen, performing artist, pho-
Costanzo, who was profiled in the Oct.
tographer and Cranbrook Academy of
11 issue of the Jewish News, makes his
Art instructor, took her "Trabantimino"
company debut in the role of Cleopatra's
— a low-rider hybrid of an East German
brother Tolomeo. $25-$125. (313) 237-
Trabant and a Chevrolet El Camino — to
7464; michiganopera.org .
the Texas desert for a journey of about 70
POP / ROCK / JAZZ / FOLK miles and created a body of work, both
photography and video, using the car as
her theme. 163 Townsend, Birmingham.
Bob Dylan and his Band, with spe-
(248) 433-3700; dkgallery.com .
cial guest Mark Knopfler, originally
Detroit Artists Market hosts Art
scheduled at the Palace of Auburn Hills
for the Holidays, its annual sale with
on Tuesday, Nov. 13, will now play at
artwork in all media for every taste
Detroit's Fox Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Dylan's
and every budget, Nov. 9-Dec. 22. The
new studio album (his 35th), Tempest,
sale kicks off with "First Grabs Friday:'
was released on Sept. 11. Featuring 10
a special preview party from 5-9 p.m.
new Dylan songs, its release coincided
Friday, Nov. 9; $10 DAM members/$20
with the 50th anniversary of Dylan's
nonmembers; tickets available at
1962 eponymous debut album. This
the door. The show opens free to the
year, Dylan was the recipient of the
public the next day. Hours: 11 a.m.-6
Presidential Medal of Freedom, the coun-
p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays; noon-5 p.m.
try's highest civilian honor.
Sundays, Dec. 2, 9, 16 and 23. 4719
Knopfler — born to an English mother
Woodward Avenue, Detroit. (313) 832-
and Hungarian Jewish father — released
8540; detroitartistsmarket.org .
his eighth solo album, Privateering, on
The Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture
Sept. 3. Perhaps best known for his work
Museum on the campus of Saginaw
with British band Dire Straits, Knopfler's
Valley State University in University City,
association with Dylan dates back to
Mich., hosts the exhibition Memories of
1979, when he played on Dylan's Slow
Train Coming sessions and then produced World War II: Photographs from the
Archives of the Associated Press through
Dylan's acclaimed 1983 release, Infidels.
Jan. 19. The AP exhibit is a spectrum of
Tickets are $30-$87.50. (800) 745-
3000; olympiaentertainment.com . (Note: 126 photos from all theaters of the war
and the home front, ranging from AP
Tickets for the Palace show will not be
photographer Joe Rosenthal's classic
honored at the Fox; ticket refunds avail-
Iwo Jima flag-raising in 1945 to scores of
able at point of purchase.)
pictures not seen in decades. Info: (989)
964-7125; marshallfredericks.org.
ON THE STAGE

UDM Theatre Company presents French
novelist, composer and playwright Boris
Vian's The Empire Builders, a farcical
play on the culture of fear that follows
the antics of a respectable family as they
attempt to flee a strange and terrifying
noise within their home. John Manfredi
stars. 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays
and 2 p.m. Sundays, Nov. 9-18, at the
Marygrove Theatre, 8425 W. McNichols
Road, Detroit. (313) 993-3270; theatre.

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