Fall arts season kicks into high gear this weekend in metro Detroit
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Fall arts season is in full swing in metro Detroit and beyond, and that means weekends packed to the rafters with great visual and performing arts offerings. Here are eight to keep an eye on this weekend.
A Stephen King classic performed live
In 1990, William Goldman adapted Stephen King’s novel “Misery” into an Academy Award-winning hit film. He later adapted that screenplay for the stage with a 2015 Broadway run. Ferndale’s Ringwald Theatre, located in Affirmations LGBTQ+ Community Center (290 W. Nine Mile Road) is presenting Goldman’s adaptation just in time for Halloween. It's directed by Brandy Joe Plambeck and stars Suzan M. Jacokes as the infamously psychotic Annie Wilkes and Joe Bailey as imprisoned author Paul Sheldon.
Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. ($25), Sundays at 3 p.m. ($25), Mondays at 8 p.m. ($15). Through Oct. 31. Tickets available at TheRingwald.com.
A jazz master in Ann Arbor
The indomitable Kurt Elling, one of the greatest vocalists in modern jazz, returns to Ann Arbor’s swanky Blue Llama Jazz Club (314 S. Main St.) on Friday and Saturday to promote his recent, Grammy-nominated album “SuperBlue.” Two set options each night offer a multi-course tasting menu by the Llama’s chef at $125 per person. It may sound pricey, but it’s an incredible experience with world-class food and entertainment.
6 and 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Tickets at BlueLlamaClub.com.
A showcase for female artists
Womxnhouse Detroit 2022 celebrates the creative vision of 11 women artists and creators reflecting the art of being female in America today. Each room of Norwest Gallery founder Asia Hamilton’s childhood home has been transformed into gallery space curated by Hamilton and Laure Earle.
Running every Saturday and Sunday through Oct. 23. 2-8 p.m., 15354 St. Mary’s. Information at Womxhousedet.com.
An evening with a Tony winner
Tony-nominated performer (as Harpo in “The Color Purple”) and Tony-winning producer (for the 2014 revival of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”) Brandon Victor Dixon will charm Cabaret313 audiences during two intimate solo performances on Saturday at the Cube (3711 Woodward Ave.). His other Broadway roles have included Aaron Burr in “Hamilton,” Eubie Blake in “Shuffle Along” and Berry Gordy in “Motown: The Musical,” for which he received a Grammy nomination.
Shows at 6:30 and 8:45 p.m. General admission tickets start at $60, with seats for ages 30 and younger at $25. Purchase at Cabaret313.org.
Chill brunch vibes
Sunrise Detroit offers community through spoken word, art, food vendors and more. It takes place 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday at Spot Lite Detroit (2905 Beaufait St. #4). Specialty mimosas and Bloody Marys will be available, as well as coffee and pastries by Cairo Coffee. Held the second Saturday of each month, Sunrise Detroit is different every time and always offers flow and style that's free of loud, turn-up energy.
Admission is free.. RSVP at Eventbrite.com.
A man-eating plant!
Rochester’s Meadow Brook Theatre and Royal Oak’s Stagecrafters are both presenting “Little Shop of Horrors,” the rollicking comedy-musical about a nebbish named Seymour who finds the road to success (and the path to hell) with a talking, bloodthirsty plant. Both productions are sure to delight, and Meadow Brook’s has the added twist of casting a female voice as the big, bad, green Audrey II.
Meadow Brook Theatre (207 Wilson Hall on the Oakland University campus in Auburn Hills. Performances Wednesday-Sunday through Oct. 30. $37-$46. MBtheatre.com.
Stagecrafters (Baldwin Theatre at 415 S. Lafayette, Royal Oak. $35 Fridays (8 p.m.), Saturdays (8 p.m.) and Sundays (2 p.m.), $25 Thursdays (8 p.m.) Through Oct. 23. Stagecrafters.org.
Hemingway lives again
“HEM: An Interview,” Robert Beaupré’s one-man play about 20th-century American author Ernest Hemingway, will be presented Friday and Saturday at the Marlene Boll Theatre at Detroit's Boll Family YMCA (1401 Broadway St.). Arthur J. Beer will star as the literary giant for one weekend only.
Performances at 7:30 p.m. both nights; tickets, $12-$20, available at Eventbrite.com.
The quest for power
On Saturday, Detroit painter Dennis Jones will speak at the closing reception of his “New Minority” exhibit at Galerie Camille (4130 Cass Ave., Suite C). The works in his show examine the small group of loud individuals who have infiltrated positions of power in politics, religion, business and the legal system in an effort to dismantle contemporary society for their own personal gain.
Reception takes place from 2-5 p.m. RSVP free at Eventbrite.com.
This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Metro Detroit's fall arts season kicks into high gear this weekend
