Calendar

Mar. 27–31 (10:30 a.m.): All kids ages 3–8 invited to watch a cartoon presentation about an inquisitive cat who takes a trip to the Moon. U-M MNH, 1105 North University. Tickets $8 at the door. Limited capacity. Masks required. 764–0478. 

Mar. 31–Apr. 2  & Apr. 14–16.  EMU drama professor Phil Simmons directs EMU drama students in the 2009 musical based on the 1980 hit feminist film, with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton and a  book by Patricia Resnick. Music direction by EMU musical theater lecturer R. MacKenzie Lewis. Appropriate for ages 14 and up. 7 p.m. (Fri. & Sat.) & 2 p.m. (Sun.), EMU Legacy Theatre, 124 Judy Sturgis Hill Bldg., Ypsilanti. Tickets $7–18 in advance at emich.ludus.com & at the door. 487–2282.

High-energy performance by this U-M student percussion-and-dance ensemble, which uses both traditional and nontraditional instruments (trash cans, propane tanks, toothbrushes, and more). 7 p.m., Power Center. Tickets $8 (students, $5) in advance at the Michigan Union Ticket Office (muto.umich.edu), and at the door. Facebook.com/umGroove.

Mar. 30, 31, & Apr. 1. Nationally touring Detroit comedian known for his clever observational humor who won the prestigious Showtime at the Apollo competition. “There are not too many people who can take a scary, embarrassing, or awkward moment in their lives and make it funny quite like Josh Adams,” says comic Paolo Busignani. Preceded by 2 opening acts TBA. Alcohol is served. 7:15 p.m. (Thurs.–Sat.) & 9:45 p.m. (Sat.), 212 S. Fourth Ave. $18 (Thurs., $13) reserved seating in advance at etix.com before 6 p.m. the night of the show; $20 (Thurs., $15) general admission at the door. 996–9080.

Every Fri.–Sun., Mar. 31–Apr. 23. Carla Milarch directs the Michigan premiere of Pulitzer-winning playwright Lynn Nottage’s 2018 tale of plunder and commerce in which the ghost of a murdered elephant haunts all who profit from its death. It’s a world in which we’re all unsettlingly connected and unconditional virtue is nonexistent. The New York Times reviewer called it a “visually inventive” and “transfixing,” work that “never feels sensational, on the one hand, or pious, on the other.” 7:30 p.m. (Fri. & Sat.), 3 p.m. (Sat.), & 2 p.m. (Sun.), Theatre Nova, 410 W. Huron St. Mask & proof of vaccination required. Tickets $22 ($10 for kids under 17) in advance at theatre-nova.ticketleap.com and (if available) at the door. 635–8450.

Every Thurs.–Sun., Feb. 23–Mar. 12. Natalie Kaye Clater directs this local professional theater company in a production of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s 1990 calypso-flavored coming-of-age 1-act pop-rock musical about a rich boy and the peasant girl who rescues him from peril. Adapted from Rosa Guy’s 1985 novel My Love, My Love; or, The Peasant Girl, a retelling of the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale The Little Mermaid. 7:30 p.m. (Thurs.–Sat.) & 3 p.m. (Sat. & Sun.), Encore Maas Main Stage, 7714 Ann Arbor St., Dexter. Tickets $54 (seniors & youth under 18, $52) in advance at theencoretheatre.org and at the door. $20 student rush tickets (if available) an hour before showtime. 268–6200.

This Detroit-based contemporary jazz duo of saxophonist Marcus Elliot and pianist Michael Malis performs works from their recent album Conjure, which features new compositions and explores the interplay between lyrical and urgent music and between composed and improvised music. The duo was 2017–2018 Artist-in-Residence at the Chamber Music Society of Detroit. 7:30 p.m., KCH, 415 N. Fourth Ave. $29–$50 (students, $19) in advance at kerrytownconcerthouse.com and at the door. 769–2999.

Mar. 24–Apr. 2. Kat Walsh directs Duncan McMillan’s 2014 one-person play that The Guardian (UK) reviewer Betsy Reed calls “one of the funniest plays you’ll ever see about depression,” adding that “there is something tough being confronted here—the guilt of not being able to make those we love happy—and it is explored with unflinching honesty.” Stars Stebert Davenport. Proceeds benefit the A2CT. 8 p.m. (Fri. & Sat.) and 2 p.m. (Sun.), A2CT, 322 W. Ann St. $15 online at a2ct.org or at the door up to half an hour before each performance.

Every Thurs.–Sun., Mar. 30–Apr. 9. Andrew White directs drama students in award-winning African American playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ 2017 modern adaptation of the 15th-century English morality play The Summoning of Everyman. The highly allegorical plot hews close to the original, following a complacent everyman who, informed by Death of his coming end, seeks friends to accompany him on his final journey. Jacobs-Jenkins’ version moves the moral of the play away from Christian salvation and towards a more humanist conclusion. The adaptation also features a unique casting quirk where each actor must memorize multiple parts with their roles being determined by lottery before each performance. 7:30 p.m. (Thurs.), 8 p.m. (Fri. & Sat.), & 2 p.m. (Sun.), Arthur Miller Theatre, 1226 Murfin, North Campus. Tickets $33 in advance at tickets.smtd.umich.edu & and at the door. 764–0583.

Four 1st-year dance grad students perform their original choreography. 8 p.m., doors open at 7 p.m., U-M Dance Bldg. Performance Studio Theatre, 1000 Baits, North Campus. Free; limited capacity so arrive early. 763–2510.

Mar. 31: (Park Chan-wook, 2003). Korean neo-noir action thriller about a man who seeks revenge for his unexplained 15-year imprisonment in a cell which resembles a hotel room. Korean, subtitles. 9:30 p.m. Film screenings every Tues. & Thurs.–Sun. Tickets $10.50 (children under 12, students, seniors age 65 & older, & U.S. veterans, $8:50; MTF members, $8; matinee $7.50) in advance online (recommended) & at the door. For updated schedule, see MichTheater.org.