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Ballet, modern, and traditional dance concerts abound, along with musical theater productions from Broadway to grand opera. </i></font><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><br> <br> </font></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div align="center"> <a name="top"> <font face="Times New Roman,Georgia,Times" size="+4" color="#660000"><i>Highlights this week:</i></font></div> <div align="left"> <p><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"> <A HREF="#event21475"><B>"The Last Days of Judas Iscariot": U-M Basement Arts.</B></A><P> <A HREF="#event21480"><B>"Madmen and Specialists": U-M Theatre Department.</B></A><P> <A HREF="#event21507"><B>"Romeo and Juliet": EMU Theatre Department.</B></A><P> <div align="center"> <font face="Times New Roman,Georgia,Times" size="+4" color="#660000"><i><img src="/2ndpagetitles/calendardates/C9.gif" width=55 height=43 alt="9" border="0" align="top"> Thursday</i></font><br> <font color="#660000">October, 2008</font></div> <br> <a name="event21475"></a> <IMG SRC="/2ndpagetitles/free.gif" width=50 height=16 ALT="Free!"> 7 p.m. <br><b>"The Last Days of Judas Iscariot"</b><b>:</b> <b>U-M Basement Arts.</b> <i>Oct. 9-11. </i> U-M theater student Julia Albain directs Stephen Guirgis's comic fantasia about Judas's trial in purgatory. With their own questionable agendas, the prosecution and defense cross-examine a wide array of witnesses from Mother Teresa and Freud to Pontius Pilate and Satan. Guirgis has "a fierce and questing mind that refuses to settle for glib answers, a gift for identifying with life's losers and an unforced eloquence that finds the poetry in low-down street talk," says <i>New York Times </i> critic Ben Brantley. "He presents dilemmas of ancient Galilee in terms winningly accessible to the 21st century." U-M Walgreen Drama Center Studio 1, 1226 Murfin, North Campus. Free. <a href="mailto:basement@umich.edu">basement@umich.edu</a>.<br clear=left><br><br> <a name="event21480"></a> 7:30 p.m. <br><b>"Madmen and Specialists"</b><b>:</b> <b>U-M Theatre Department.</b> <i>Oct. 9-12 & 16-19. </i> U-M drama professor Mbala Nkanga directs U-M drama students in Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka's 1971 drama, written in the wake of Soyinka's 22-month detention during the Biafra war in Nigeria. A mix of sharp parody and deft verbal hijinks with Yoruba ritual song and dance, it is at once a critique of the abuse of power and an exploration of the human devastation of war. U-M Walgreen Drama Center Arthur Miller Theatre, 1226 Murfin, North Campus. Tickets $18 & $24 (students, $9) at the Michigan League Box Office in advance and at the door. To charge by phone, call 764-2538.<br clear=right><br><br> <div align="center"> <font face="Times New Roman,Georgia,Times" size="+4" color="#660000"><i><img src="/2ndpagetitles/calendardates/C10.gif" width=55 height=43 alt="10" border="0" align="top"> Friday</i></font><br> <font color="#660000">October, 2008</font></div> <br> <a name="event21509"></a> <IMG SRC="/2ndpagetitles/free.gif" width=50 height=16 ALT="Free!"> 7 & 11 p.m. <br><b>"The Last Days of Judas Iscariot"</b><b>:</b> <b>U-M Basement Arts.</b> <i>Oct. 9-11. </i> U-M theater student Julia Albain directs Stephen Guirgis's comic fantasia about Judas's trial in purgatory. With their own questionable agendas, the prosecution and defense cross-examine a wide array of witnesses from Mother Teresa and Freud to Pontius Pilate and Satan. Guirgis has "a fierce and questing mind that refuses to settle for glib answers, a gift for identifying with life's losers and an unforced eloquence that finds the poetry in low-down street talk," says <i>New York Times </i> critic Ben Brantley. "He presents dilemmas of ancient Galilee in terms winningly accessible to the 21st century." U-M Walgreen Drama Center Studio 1, 1226 Murfin, North Campus. Free. <a href="mailto:basement@umich.edu">basement@umich.edu</a>.<br clear=left><br><br> <a name="event21507"></a> 7 p.m. <br><b>"Romeo and Juliet"</b><b>:</b> <b>EMU Theatre Department.</b> <i>Oct. 10-12 & 16-18. </i> Chicago Shakespearean actor-director David Blixt directs Shakespeare's vividly poetic love story, a romantic tragedy about "star-crossed lovers" defying their feuding families. Initially lightheartedly comic, then dire, this perennially popular drama is the heart-wrenching tale of 2 impetuous young lovers destroyed by the intransigence of their feuding families, their own mistakes, and some incredibly bad timing. Quirk Theatre, Ford St. (off Lowell from Huron River Dr.), EMU campus, Ypsilanti. Tickets $15 (students, $12; kids age 12 & under, $6) in advance and at the door. 487-2282.<br clear=right><br><br> <a name="event21521"></a> 8 p.m. <br><b>"How the Other Half Loves"</b><b>:</b> <b>Blackbird Theatre.</b> <i>Every Fri.-Sun. (except Sept. 28), Sept. 26-Oct. 18. </i> Barton Bund directs local actors in Alan Ayckbourn's farce about 2 married couples. Unaware of each other, the couples play out their daily interactions simultaneously. Cast: Laurie Atwood, Charles Sutherland, Kathy Waugh, Kate Orr, and Adam Rzepka. Blackbird Theatre, 1600 Pauline. Tickets $20 (seniors 60 & over, $15; students, $10) in advance and at the door. 332-3848.<br clear=left><br><br> <a name="event21520"></a> 8 p.m. <br><b>"Madmen and Specialists"</b><b>:</b> <b>U-M Theatre Department.</b> <i>Oct. 9-12 & 16-19. </i> U-M drama professor Mbala Nkanga directs U-M drama students in Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka's 1971 drama, written in the wake of Soyinka's 22-month detention during the Biafra war in Nigeria. A mix of sharp parody and deft verbal hijinks with Yoruba ritual song and dance, it is at once a critique of the abuse of power and an exploration of the human devastation of war. U-M Walgreen Drama Center Arthur Miller Theatre, 1226 Murfin, North Campus. Tickets $18 & $24 (students, $9) at the Michigan League Box Office in advance and at the door. To charge by phone, call 764-2538.<br clear=right><br><br> <a name="event21519"></a> 8 p.m. <br><b>"Exit the King"</b><b>:</b> <b>Ann Arbor Civic Theatre.</b> <i>Oct. 10-12 & 17 & 18. </i> David Andrews directs local actors in Eugene Ionesco's 1962 absurdist tragedy, a satiric farce about the hubris of the state. An arrogant king mismanages his kingdom to the extent that it has shrunk to the confines of his garden wall, his nation reduced to the 6 people in his throne room. Unable to command the movements of his own body, the king must face his mortality. Cast: Tom Underwood, Lesli Weston, Cindy Chu, Julie Speiser, Peter Richards, and David Widmayer. AACT Studio, 322 W. Ann. Tickets $10 & $15 in advance and at the door. 971-2228.<br clear=left><br><br> <div align="center"> <font face="Times New Roman,Georgia,Times" size="+4" color="#660000"><i><img src="/2ndpagetitles/calendardates/C11.gif" width=55 height=43 alt="11" border="0" align="top"> Saturday</i></font><br> <font color="#660000">October, 2008</font></div> <br> <a name="event21563"></a> <IMG SRC="/2ndpagetitles/free.gif" width=50 height=16 ALT="Free!"> 7 p.m. <br><b>"The Last Days of Judas Iscariot"</b><b>:</b> <b>U-M Basement Arts.</b> <i>Oct. 9-11. </i> U-M theater student Julia Albain directs Stephen Guirgis's comic fantasia about Judas's trial in purgatory. With their own questionable agendas, the prosecution and defense cross-examine a wide array of witnesses from Mother Teresa and Freud to Pontius Pilate and Satan. Guirgis has "a fierce and questing mind that refuses to settle for glib answers, a gift for identifying with life's losers and an unforced eloquence that finds the poetry in low-down street talk," says <i>New York Times </i> critic Ben Brantley. "He presents dilemmas of ancient Galilee in terms winningly accessible to the 21st century." U-M Walgreen Drama Center Studio 1, 1226 Murfin, North Campus. Free. <a href="mailto:basement@umich.edu">basement@umich.edu</a>.<br clear=right><br><br> <a name="event21562"></a> 7 p.m. <br><b>"Romeo and Juliet"</b><b>:</b> <b>EMU Theatre Department.</b> <i>Oct. 10-12 & 16-18. </i> Chicago Shakespearean actor-director David Blixt directs Shakespeare's vividly poetic love story, a romantic tragedy about "star-crossed lovers" defying their feuding families. Initially lightheartedly comic, then dire, this perennially popular drama is the heart-wrenching tale of 2 impetuous young lovers destroyed by the intransigence of their feuding families, their own mistakes, and some incredibly bad timing. Quirk Theatre, Ford St. (off Lowell from Huron River Dr.), EMU campus, Ypsilanti. Tickets $15 (students, $12; kids age 12 & under, $6) in advance and at the door. 487-2282.<br clear=left><br><br> <a name="event21576"></a> 8 p.m. <br><b>"How the Other Half Loves"</b><b>:</b> <b>Blackbird Theatre.</b> <i>Every Fri.-Sun. (except Sept. 28), Sept. 26-Oct. 18. </i> Barton Bund directs local actors in Alan Ayckbourn's farce about 2 married couples. Unaware of each other, the couples play out their daily interactions simultaneously. Cast: Laurie Atwood, Charles Sutherland, Kathy Waugh, Kate Orr, and Adam Rzepka. Blackbird Theatre, 1600 Pauline. Tickets $20 (seniors 60 & over, $15; students, $10) in advance and at the door. 332-3848.<br clear=right><br><br> <a name="event21573"></a> 8 p.m. <br><b>"Madmen and Specialists"</b><b>:</b> <b>U-M Theatre Department.</b> <i>Oct. 9-12 & 16-19. </i> U-M drama professor Mbala Nkanga directs U-M drama students in Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka's 1971 drama, written in the wake of Soyinka's 22-month detention during the Biafra war in Nigeria. A mix of sharp parody and deft verbal hijinks with Yoruba ritual song and dance, it is at once a critique of the abuse of power and an exploration of the human devastation of war. U-M Walgreen Drama Center Arthur Miller Theatre, 1226 Murfin, North Campus. Tickets $18 & $24 (students, $9) at the Michigan League Box Office in advance and at the door. To charge by phone, call 764-2538.<br clear=left><br><br> <a name="event21572"></a> 8 p.m. <br><b>"Fatal Prayer"</b><b>:</b> <b>Dreamland Theater.</b> <i>Oct. 4 & 11. </i> The Dreamland Puppet Troupe presents this dark comedy about a woman whose prayers are answered in an extreme manner. For mature audiences. Dreamland Theater, 26 N. Washington St. Ypsilanti. $7. 657-2337.<br clear=right><br><br> <a name="event21571"></a> 8 p.m. <br><b>"Exit the King"</b><b>:</b> <b>Ann Arbor Civic Theatre.</b> <i>Oct. 10-12 & 17 & 18. </i> David Andrews directs local actors in Eugene Ionesco's 1962 absurdist tragedy, a satiric farce about the hubris of the state. An arrogant king mismanages his kingdom to the extent that it has shrunk to the confines of his garden wall, his nation reduced to the 6 people in his throne room. Unable to command the movements of his own body, the king must face his mortality. Cast: Tom Underwood, Lesli Weston, Cindy Chu, Julie Speiser, Peter Richards, and David Widmayer. AACT Studio, 322 W. Ann. Tickets $10 & $15 in advance and at the door. 971-2228.<br clear=left><br><br> <div align="center"> <font face="Times New Roman,Georgia,Times" size="+4" color="#660000"><i><img src="/2ndpagetitles/calendardates/C12.gif" width=55 height=43 alt="12" border="0" align="top"> Sunday</i></font><br> <font color="#660000">October, 2008</font></div> <br> <a name="event21625"></a> 2 p.m. <br><b>"How the Other Half Loves"</b><b>:</b> <b>Blackbird Theatre.</b> <i>Every Fri.-Sun. (except Sept. 28), Sept. 26-Oct. 18. </i> Barton Bund directs local actors in Alan Ayckbourn's farce about 2 married couples. Unaware of each other, the couples play out their daily interactions simultaneously. Cast: Laurie Atwood, Charles Sutherland, Kathy Waugh, Kate Orr, and Adam Rzepka. Blackbird Theatre, 1600 Pauline. Tickets $20 (seniors 60 & over, $15; students, $10) in advance and at the door. 332-3848.<br clear=right><br><br> <a name="event21624"></a> 2 p.m. <br><b>"Exit the King"</b><b>:</b> <b>Ann Arbor Civic Theatre.</b> <i>Oct. 10-12 & 17 & 18. </i> David Andrews directs local actors in Eugene Ionesco's 1962 absurdist tragedy, a satiric farce about the hubris of the state. An arrogant king mismanages his kingdom to the extent that it has shrunk to the confines of his garden wall, his nation reduced to the 6 people in his throne room. Unable to command the movements of his own body, the king must face his mortality. Cast: Tom Underwood, Lesli Weston, Cindy Chu, Julie Speiser, Peter Richards, and David Widmayer. AACT Studio, 322 W. Ann. Tickets $10 & $15 in advance and at the door. 971-2228.<br clear=left><br><br> <a name="event21629"></a> 3 p.m. <br><b>"Romeo and Juliet"</b><b>:</b> <b>EMU Theatre Department.</b> <i>Oct. 10-12 & 16-18. </i> Chicago Shakespearean actor-director David Blixt directs Shakespeare's vividly poetic love story, a romantic tragedy about "star-crossed lovers" defying their feuding families. Initially lightheartedly comic, then dire, this perennially popular drama is the heart-wrenching tale of 2 impetuous young lovers destroyed by the intransigence of their feuding families, their own mistakes, and some incredibly bad timing. Quirk Theatre, Ford St. (off Lowell from Huron River Dr.), EMU campus, Ypsilanti. 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