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Michigan Opera
Theatre presents
Giacomo Puccini's

Two Muses Theatre
mounts a production
of Neil Simon's Jake's
Madame Butterfly,
Women, about an estab-
Gail Zimmerman
helmed by Tunisian-
lished author in a rocky
Arts Editor
born Jewish director
marriage and stuck
Bernard Uzan, at
career who calls upon
7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15; Wednesday, the important women (some imagined)
Nov. 19; Friday, Nov. 21; and Saturday,
in his life for help, at 8 p.m. Fridays
Nov. 22, with a matinee at 2:30 p.m.
and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays,
Sunday, Nov. 23, at the Detroit Opera
Nov. 14-Dec. 7, at the theater inside the
House. $25-$128. (313) 237-7464;
Barnes and Noble in West Bloomfield.
michiganopera.org .
$18-$20/$2 additional at the door. (248)
Chamber Music Society of Detroit
850-9919; twomusestheatre.org.
hosts the Dover String Quartet,
Ferndale's Ringwald Theatre stages
with pianist Jon Kimura Parker, at 8
Aaron Posner's Stupid F--king Bird,
p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15, at Seligman
a 21st-century irreverent remix of
Performing Arts Center in Beverly
Chekhov's The Seagull, Nov. 14-Dec. 8.
Hills. Among other works, the quartet
$20. Show times and tickets: (248) 545-
will perform String Quartet No. 3 by
5545; the ringwald.com.
Viktor Ullman (1898-1944), a com-
Matrix Theatre presents the 2013
poser of Jewish descent who perished
Pulitzer Prize finalist Rapture, Blister,
at Auschwitz. $30-$60 adults/$15-$30
Burn, a comedy from Gina Gionfriddo,
students. (248) 855-6070;
directed by Dr. Lisa Hodge Kander,
chambermusicdetroit.org.
which highlights two friends who chose
Music Director Arie Lipsky conducts
different paths after graduate school,
the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra
meet again 20 years later and question
in Tchaikovsky and Friends, with guest their choices, at 8 p.m. Fridays and
pianist Anton Nel performing Piano
Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays, Nov.
Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, and with 14-Dec. 7, at Matrix Theatre Company
works by Rossini and Schumann, at 8
in the heart of Detroit's Mexicantown.
p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15, at the Michigan
$15-$20. (313) 967-0599; matrixtheatre.
Theater in Ann Arbor. $12-$62. (764)
org.
The University of Michigan
994-4801; a2so.com.
Music Director Leonard Slatkin
Department of Musical Theatre stages
leads the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Caroline, or Change, with book and
lyrics by Tony Kushner and music by
in a program titled Gershwin in Paris,
featuring the Gershwin classic An
Jeanine Tesori, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday,
American in Paris, as well as the world
8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 2 p.m.
premiere of Slatkin's own Endgames
Sunday, Nov. 20-23, at the Arthur Miller
and wife Cindy McTee's Solstice for
Theatre in Ann Arbor. Set in Lake
Trombone and Orchestra, at 7:30 p.m.
Charles, La., where Kushner grew up,
Thursday, 10:45 p.m. Friday and 8 p.m.
against the backdrop of the Civil Rights
Saturday, Nov. 20-22, at Orchestra Hall.
Movement, the sung-though musical
$15-$50 (plus limited box seats at $100). tells the story of a divorced African
(313) 576-5111; dso.org.
American woman thrust into the mid-
dle of the conflicts within a Southern
POP / ROCK / JAZZ /FOLK Jewish family for whom she works as a
maid. The score is layered with sounds
A DSO Pops Series concert, Sounds of
of pop, gospel, blues, klezmer and tradi-
Simon and Garfunkel, featuring the
tional Jewish melodies. $10-$28. (734)
Jewish duo's greatest hits, will be per-
764-2538; tickets.music.umich.edu.
formed at 10:45 a.m. and 8 p.m. Friday,
WHATNOT
8 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov.
14-16, at Orchestra Hall. $19+. (313)
576-5111; dso.org.
Intuitive practitioner Lori Lipten hosts
The Ark in Ann Arbor hosts Jewish
an audience reading and book-signing
singer-songwriter Howe Gelb he's
at 3-5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22, at Mind's
described his music as "erosion rock:'
Eye Bookstore in Mount Clemens and a
changing with the elements on a daily
small group reading at 11:30 a.m.-1:30
basis — and Native American perform-
p.m. Friday, Dec. 4, at Sacred Balance
Academy in Bloomfield Hills. For tick-
er Grant-Lee Phillips at 8 p.m. Friday,
Nov. 14 ($20); and singer/slide guitarist
ets and more info on readings, classes,
Natalia Zukerman (daughter of clas-
retreats and more, call (248) 219-5982,
sical musicians Eugenia and Pinchas
or visit lorilipten.com.
Zukerman) at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15
($15). (734) 761-1451; theark.org.

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