Arts & Entertainment

Get Out: Dinner Theatre, Everyday Heroes and the S.S. Michigan

Here's a snapshot of happenings around Brighton this weekend.

It’s Thursday, and you’ve got no idea what you’ll do for the weekend.

Patch is coming to the rescue. We’ve got the best bets for your done-work-outta-here time. Check our picks for this weekend:

1. MOVIE DATE

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Where/When: , ongoing.

Why Go: Premiering this Friday are the thrillers I Am Number Four and Unknown and the comedy Big Mommas: Like Father Like Son, or catch up on box office leaders Just Go With It, starring Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler, or Justin Beiber: Never Say Never.

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Pricing: $8.75 per adult.

2.

Where/When: Crystal Gardens Banquet Center, 6:30 p.m. Thursday.

Why Go: The American Red Cross of Livingston County will host this annual event to honor "ordinary people with extraordinary courage" and raise money for the local chapter.

Pricing: $35 each or $280 for a table of 10.

3.

Where/When: , 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Thursday.

Why Go: Diver and author Valerie Van Heest of Holland, MI will host this riveting historical re-enactment of the 1885 sinking of the S.S. Michigan as part of the 2011 Livingston Reads one-book-one-community reading series.

Pricing: Free.

4.

Where/When: Cleary University Livingston Campus, 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Why Go: If you missed this live-dinner-show experience at the CoBACH, catch the Livingston Players, together with Pure and Simple Catering, as they present a reprise of A Night in the Theatre by Laurence Casler.

Pricing: $35 for dinner and show (cash bar).

5. 

Where/When: Kensington Metropark Farm Center, noon-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Why Go: Now that the weather's warming up, take a relaxing horse-drawn hayride past the fields and through the woods. Only two weekends left for this popular attraction.

Pricing: $3 per child, $5 per adult.


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