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Every Sat. & Tues. Runners of all abilities invited to join a tempo (specifically paced) run of 5–7 miles (Tues.) or a 6-mile or more supported run (Sat.) with directional signs and water stops. Rain or shine. 8 a.m. (Sat.) & 6:30 p.m. (Tues.), PR Run Club, 326 W. Liberty, 769–5016. First two runs free; $3/run or $120 (students, $100) yearly membership thereafter. Prrunclub.com.

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5-km timed run along the Huron River on a course in Gallup Park, with Twinkie-eating stations. Twinkie medals for all finishers. Proceeds benefit ALS research. Post-race grilled Twinkies and chocolate. 9 a.m. (race number pickup starts 7:45 a.m.), Gallup Park canoe livery, 3000 Fuller Rd. $23–$25 (youth age 12 & under, free) in advance; $30 day of race. Twinkie T-shirts ($13 in advance) available. Preregistrater at activeagainstals.org/events/twinkie-run. twinkierun@a2a3.org.

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Every Fri.–Sun. Three different audiovisual planetarium shows suitable for all ages. Did an Asteroid Really Kill the Dinosaurs? (11:30 a.m.) looks at cosmic collisions across the solar system including the 6-mile-wide asteroid that hit the earth 66 million years ago. The Sky Tonight (12:30 & 2:30 p.m.) is an exploration of the current night sky, with tips on how to find the cardinal directions, constellations, and planets on your own. Living in Balance (1:30 p.m.) explores native Anishinaabe stories of constellations and moons. Various times, U-M MNH, 1105 North University. $8 at the door. Limited capacity. 764–0478. 

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Fathom Events. 973–8424 (Ann Arbor 20), 316–5500 (Emagine). Tickets $11.50–$12.50 (except as noted) in advance at fathomevents.com/events and at the door. Ann Arbor 20 (4100 Carpenter) & Emagine (1335 E. Michigan Ave., Saline), various times.

Apr. 1 & 5: “Falstaff” Live (Sat.) & prerecorded (Wed.) broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Verdi’s comic masterpiece, a brilliantly balanced blend of bawdy humor and lyric beauty. Adapted from Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor, with a few additions from Henry IV, the story finds Shakespeare’s larger-than-life rogue wooing 2 married women for money while his own daughters steal kisses behind his back. The music, one of Verdi’s most bewitching scores, is sung in Italian, with English supertitles. 12:30 p.m. (Sat.) & 1 p.m. (Wed., Ann Arbor 20 only). 

Apr. 2-4 & 6: “The Journey: A Music Special from Andrea Bocelli” (Gaetano Morbioli & Paolo Sodi, 2023). Spiritual documentary that follows world-renowned tenor Bocelli and his wife Veronica as they travel through beautiful Italian terrain on horseback to complete parts of the Via Francigena—a historical pilgrimage in which Christians journey to Rome to worship at grand cathedrals and visit revered burial sites of saints and apostles. 4 & 7 p.m. 

Apr. 12 & 13: “Beautiful Disaster” (Roger Kumble, 2023). College romance about a clean-cut freshman girl who loses a bet and has to live with a bad-boy brawler for a month. 7 p.m. 

Apr. 15 & 19: “Der Rosenkavalier” Live (Sat.) & prerecorded (Wed.) broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Richard Straus’s 1911 comic opera, a send-up of courtly love about an aging princess whose young lover falls for the daughter of a rich aristocrat. Noon. (Wed., Ann Arbor 20 only). 

Apr. 16 & 20: “The Big Lebowski” (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1998). 25th anniversary screening of this beloved comedy starring Jeff Bridges as an L.A. slacker who’s mistaken for a namesake who then commissions him to ransom the latter’s kidnapped trophy wife. 4 p.m. (Sun.) & 7 p.m. (Thurs.).

Apr. 18: “Mirando al Cielo” (Antonio Peláez, 2023). Historical drama about a 14-year-old boy who takes up arms against the Mexican government in the 1920’s Cristero Rebellion. Captured, he is taken to a village where his own godfather is the magistrate who must decide his punishment. Spanish, subtitles. 7 p.m. 

Apr. 22 & 24: “Carol Burnett: A Celebration” (Mike Trinklein, 2023). This tribute to the prolific TV comedian, one of the 1st women to host a prime time variety show, features clips, memories, and interviews with Carl Reiner, Tim Conway, Vicki Lawrence, Betty White, Cloris Leachman, Tina Fey, Phyllis Diller, Barbara Eden, Jim Nabors, and more. 2 p.m. (Sat.) and 4 & 7 p.m. (Mon.). 

Apr. 23 & 27: “Spirited Away: Live on Stage” Screening of Tony-winning director John Caird’s 2022 stage adaptation of Hayao Miyazaki’s dazzling Oscar-winning animated fantasy about a young girl who discovers a secret world of strange spirits and sorcery. Features dazzling sets, captivating musical numbers, and wondrous puppets of beloved characters. Japanese, subtitles. 4 p.m. (Sun.) & 7 p.m. (Thurs.).

Apr. 29 & May 3: “Champion” Live (Sat.) & prerecorded (Wed.) broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera’s production of acclaimed contemporary composer Terence Blanchard’s 2021 opera about a young boxer who rises from obscurity to become a world champion, and his older self, still haunted by the ghosts of his past. 1 p.m. (Wed., Ann Arbor 20 only).

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Every Fri.–Sun. Three different audiovisual planetarium shows suitable for all ages. Did an Asteroid Really Kill the Dinosaurs? (11:30 a.m.) looks at cosmic collisions across the solar system including the 6-mile-wide asteroid that hit the earth 66 million years ago. The Sky Tonight (12:30 & 2:30 p.m.) is an exploration of the current night sky, with tips on how to find the cardinal directions, constellations, and planets on your own. Living in Balance (1:30 p.m.) explores native Anishinaabe stories of constellations and moons. Various times, U-M MNH, 1105 North University. $8 at the door. Limited capacity. 764–0478. 

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Every Fri.–Sun. Three different audiovisual planetarium shows suitable for all ages. Did an Asteroid Really Kill the Dinosaurs? (11:30 a.m.) looks at cosmic collisions across the solar system including the 6-mile-wide asteroid that hit the earth 66 million years ago. The Sky Tonight (12:30 & 2:30 p.m.) is an exploration of the current night sky, with tips on how to find the cardinal directions, constellations, and planets on your own. Living in Balance (1:30 p.m.) explores native Anishinaabe stories of constellations and moons. Various times, U-M MNH, 1105 North University. $8 at the door. Limited capacity. 764–0478. 

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Apr. 1, 15, & 29. All invited to participate in and learn about judgment-free improvisation. No experience necessary. 2 p.m., Riverside Arts Center Studio 1, 76 N. Huron St., Ypsilanti. Proof of vaccination required. $5 (spectators, free) in advance via PayPal or Venmo linked from meetup.com/Ypsi-Improv and in cash at the door.

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Every Fri.–Sun. Three different audiovisual planetarium shows suitable for all ages. Did an Asteroid Really Kill the Dinosaurs? (11:30 a.m.) looks at cosmic collisions across the solar system including the 6-mile-wide asteroid that hit the earth 66 million years ago. The Sky Tonight (12:30 & 2:30 p.m.) is an exploration of the current night sky, with tips on how to find the cardinal directions, constellations, and planets on your own. Living in Balance (1:30 p.m.) explores native Anishinaabe stories of constellations and moons. Various times, U-M MNH, 1105 North University. $8 at the door. Limited capacity. 764–0478. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Valencia Baryton Project (VBP)—barytonist Matthew Baker, violist Brett Walfish, and cellist Amy Domingues—presents an evening of Haydn baryton trios. Similar to a bass viol, the baryton is a Baroque instrument with 6 bowed strings and 10 resonating or plucked strings, and Baker is one of only a handful of baryton players in the world. The traditional baryton trio also includes viola and violoncello. Haydn wrote 123 of these works while he was court composer for avid baryton player Prince Esterhazy of Austria, from 1762 to 1775. The VBP’s 2021 album, Treasures of the Esterháza Palace, presents a “gentle yet fascinating repertoire ... spiritedly performed” according to Classical Music Daily. Preceded by a preconcert lecture by the artists at 7:15. 8 p.m., Zion Lutheran Church, 1501 W. Liberty St. Tickets $30 (seniors, $25; students, $10) in advance by Mar. 25 at AcademyOfEarlyMusic.org; $35 (seniors, $30; students, $15) at the door. 228–4338.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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