UP to SPEED
Fiddler on the Roof keeps the tradition going in Maryland.
Museum is the final stop
for “Terra Cotta Warriors:
Guardians of China’s First
Emperor,” the largest
collection of terra cotta
figures to ever travel to
the U.S. from China. The
exhibition features 15
terra cotta figures from
the tomb of China’s First
Emperor, Qin Shihuangdi,
who ruled from 221-210
B.C. Nov. 19-March 31, 2010.
nationalgeographic.com.
For the D.C. events, save 40 percent on the best
available rail fare for one companion traveling in coach with a
paid regular (full) adult rail fare
to Washington, D.C. This offer is
valid for sale through Dec. 13
and for travel through Dec. 16,
2009. Request discount code
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DELAWARE
2009 Delaware Auto
Show: This event features
more than 200 new-model
autos, the latest in hybrid/
green technology, classics, antiques, highline
and a 100-year-old steam-powered car (it still works!).
With a black-tie charity gala;
sports celebrity guests;
the relaunch of the Ford
Mustang; and Spider-Man.
Chase Center on the Wilmington Riverfront. Oct. 2-4.
delawareautoshow.com.
American in Paris/Rus-sian in L.A.: George Gershwin’s jazzy masterwork,
An American in Paris, opens
the Opera Delaware season.
The program features one
of America’s finest young
pianists in a concerto tinged
with jazz and echoes of the
Frenchman Maurice Ravel’s
sojourn in America (during
which he visited Harlem
nightspots with Gershwin).
The show concludes with a
symphony from the American period of one of the
greatest pianists in music
history, Sergei Rachmaninov. Grand Opera House,
Wilmington. Sept. 25-26.
800-37-GRAND; operade.org.
Deadly Sins: Jamie Wyeth
explores the seven deadly
sins in a series of paintings that depict seabirds
as human sinners. “Jamie
Wyeth—Seven Deadly
Sins” demonstrates his
knowledge of herring and
black-backed gull anatomy
and behavior, as well as his
view of human character
reflected in nature. The
exhibition includes the
2006 painting Inferno,
which served as the
springboard for Wyeth’s
series. This exhibition
was organized by the Farnsworth Art Museum in
Rockland, Maine. Sept. 12-
Nov. 22. 610-388-8315;
brandywine.org.
A Mardi Gras musical
extravaganza: The stage
heats up when Delaware
Theatre Company opens
its 31st season with the East
Coast premiere of Fire on the
Bayou, written and directed
by DTC favorite Kevin Ramsey. Told through the lens
of Hurricane Katrina survivors, the play celebrates the
music and enduring spirit of
New Orleans, where, Ramsey says of his hometown,
"the saints go marching in
