Professional Theater News: SAUGATUCK - "Energetic" becomes an understatement when Adam Mellema hits the stage Saturday, March 24 with his latest presentation for mature listeners, "Remembering World War II." The presentation, which combines choreography, song, [...]
Professional Theater News: SAUGATUCK - "Energetic" becomes an understatement when Adam Mellema hits the stage Saturday, March 24 with his latest presentation for mature listeners, "Remembering World War II." The presentation, which combines choreography, song, [...]
Professional Theater News from Around Town: DETROIT - Few shows have touched audiences like "Riverdance," the original international phenomenon, now in its 12th phenomenal year. This thunderous celebration of joyful music, song and dance that [...]
Community Theater Corner: BLOOMFIELD HILLS - "Two by Two" is a fresh retelling of the Biblical story of Noah who, at the age of 600, was told by God to build the Ark. That command [...]
Professional Theater News from Around Town: DETROIT - On March 23, The University of Detroit Mercy Theatre Company and Marygrove College will open their co-production of the popular Broadway musical "Urinetown," directed by Greg Trask [...]
Professional Theater News from Around Town: Gem Theatre celebrates the man who moved Detroit's Gem DETROIT - This year, the historic Gem & Century Theatres will celebrate the tenth anniversary of the building's world-record move. [...]
From Our Hallowed Halls of Learning: ROCHESTER - Mistaken suspenders and an anonymous love note send a husband's curiosity to naughty places in Feydeau's hysterical French farce, "A Flea in Her Ear," on stage at [...]
Professional Theater News: LANSING - BoarsHead Theater is proud to have been awarded a recent funding grant from the Actors' Equity Foundation, the Foundation associated with Actors' Equity Association. Founded in 1913, AEA is the [...]
Community Theatre Corner: KALAMAZOO - The Kalamazoo Civic Theatre is pleased to welcome Alma Bond, Ph.D. as dramaturge for its upcoming production of "Master Class," which plays March 30-April 15, in the Parish Theatre, 426 [...]
At some point in our lives, it's likely that each of us has been teased about something. We were too tall or too short, too fat or too skinny, too smart or too dumb, too [...]
At some point in our lives, it's likely that each of us has been teased about something. We were too tall or too short, too fat or too skinny, too smart or too dumb, too [...]
Sometimes persistence DOES pay off. Just ask 20-year-old Ofelia Torres who, for the past several years, has been pestering Matrix Theatre's Shaun S. Nethercott and the troupe's various directors to remount its popular production of [...]
Sometimes persistence DOES pay off. Just ask 20-year-old Ofelia Torres who, for the past several years, has been pestering Matrix Theatre's Shaun S. Nethercott and the troupe's various directors to remount its popular production of [...]
ARCHITECTURE/GARDEN TOURS: Edsel & Eleanor Ford House Discover the Ford House with all-new tours that go behind the scenes, examine special subjects and provide a new perspective on the family that left an indelible mark [...]
PROFESSIONAL THEATER/OPERA: Between Men and Cattle The president of a conservative, white university arranges a meeting with the black man he interviewed 30 years later to find out, in part, what went wrong during their [...]
Professional Theater News: LANSING - The BoarsHead Theater's Second Company Dark Night Series continues March 19 and 20 with Stephen Levi's "Cherry Soda Water." One night in a northern California coastal town, two families are [...]
 Professional Theater News: LANSING â BoarsHead Theater is proud to have been awarded a recent funding grant from the Actorsâ Equity Foundation, the Foundation associated with Actorsâ Equity Association. Founded in 1913, AEA is [...]
Community Theatre Corner: KALAMAZOO - The Kalamazoo Civic Theatre is pleased to welcome Alma Bond, Ph.D. as dramaturge for its upcoming production of "Master Class," which plays March 30-April 15, in the Parish Theatre, 426 [...]
Professional Theater News: CLINTON TWP. - The Crooners are back in town, on Saturday, March 24 at 8 p.m. at the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts. Experience Gary Anthony as Frank Sinatra, Tom Stevens [...]
LARGO, Fla. - Steve Stanton didn't think it would be easy. But he also didn't believe that his decision to transition into Susan and have gender reassignment surgery would manage to overshadow his 14 years [...]
Online update from Between The Lines Newspaper DETROIT-- Julie Marie Nemecek has reached an agreement with the conservative Christian University that fired her last month. The federal mediation resulted in a "mutually satisifactory" resolution. Exact [...]
by Rachel Loskill The first sign through the door at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Springfield, Mo., read: "We are a Welcoming Congregation to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) persons, as well as [...]
South Bend, IN - Six young adults were arrested today for walking onto the Notre Dame campus in a show of support for gay and lesbian equality. The arrestees are members of the Soulforce Equality [...]
by Bob Roehr LOS ANGELES - "The AID epidemic in the United States is appreciably worse than the epidemic in any Western European country," said Harold Jaffe. The former head of HIV programs at the [...]
Michigan State University now has the dubious distinction of being the first and only U.S. college or university with an official hate group on its campus. In April, the Southern Poverty Law Center will issue [...]
Though the Ann Arbor Film Festival faced funding trouble this year, the show must go on. The Festival screenings and events commences in the historic Michigan Theater on March 20 and runs through March 25. [...]
Sexy or smutty? It wasn't clear which Justin Timberlake was attempting to bring back on March 10 at the Joe Louis Arena. The high-pitched crooner simulated sex acts, like rear-entry romping with a scantily clad [...]
Orchestra Canton presents the season finale of their 2006-2007 "Classical Canton" season, under award-winning Plymouth Canton Symphony Society Music Director and Conductor Nan Washburn, with "Sunday Serenade" on April 1, at 4 p.m. at the [...]
ANN ARBOR - Morris Dees, civil rights attorney and founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, spoke about hate groups at the University of Michigan on Feb. 21. The speech, which drew approximately 150 attendees, [...]
When current Harvard School of Public Health Research Associate Raphael Ezekiel was a professor at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, he became curious about the growth of the racist SS Action Group. That curiosity [...]
"Marilyn Monroe was Anna's idol. But I bet you if the two of them lived during the same time period and they met, Marilyn would be flocking toward Anna, not the other way around. And [...]
by Richard Labonte "The IHOP Papers," by Ali Liebegott, Carroll & Graf, 248 pages, $14.95 paper. Serving mushy pancakes to weird men for lousy tips is not the life aspiring writer Francesca envisions when she [...]
Dear Jody: Parents need to honor whole family, not just grandchildren March 15, 2007 Q: I have two lovely, biological children, ages 1 and 3. My partner "Sandy" and I chose to become parents and [...]
by Jack Fertig March 12, 2007 Venus in Aries turns up the flirtatious heat, and Mercury in Aquarius can make tongues move faster than brains. Pluto aspects both, pouring warm, greasy lube all over the [...]
March 12, 2007 Across 1 Protector of k.d. lang and Janis Ian 6 Comes out on the beach 10 Rainbow shape 14 Gay ___ (anti-Gay Pride group) 15 Miss, to Mme. de Stael 16 "Oliver!" [...]
ATLANTA - A new report issued by the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention shows HIV infections rates continue to be on the rise in the African-American community. According to the report, published in the [...]
by Bob Roehr CHICAGO - "I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts...I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that [...]
By Sharon Gittleman WEST BLOOMFIELD- The gathering last week had one aim. "Our goal for all of this is to save a life," said Judy Lewis, president of the Jewish Gay Network of Michigan. "Alll [...]
After picking up art pieces left at Metro Times -- used to illustrate a review of my January Scarab Club show -- extremely favorable, I'll modestly add -- I wade through snow, slush, tooting traffic [...]
"I believe homosexual acts between two individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts. I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is OK [...]
I love the internet. Surfing websites, shopping, researching information, reading blogs, e-mailing, instant messaging (IM), and my latest craze - the webcam - you name it, I'm right there. I probably spend more time online [...]
by Sean Kosofsky No, I don't intend to dress up powerful political figures and teach them etiquette, even though some of them need it. It is time, though, to start weighing in on the 2008 [...]
{BOLD "Work Out" - Bravo 11 p.m. March 20} Call it the curse of G.I. Joe. Underneath that flack jacket, he's got the image every man craves: chiseled abs and biceps that would make Brad [...]
Jim Leija is stumped. He begins busting out Beyonce's "Listen," explaining it served as a distraction during rehearsals for his solo musical-esque production. But after botching a few lines, he dives into the middle of [...]
To say John Cameron Mitchell's look at life in post-9/11 New York is touching doesn't seem erroneous when considering the emotional current the director inflicts over the porn-like hanky panky. There's multi-dexterous hetero sex. A [...]
Erin Markey had sex within a pile of people in "Shortbus," now on DVD. It brought in some extra loot and the former Michigander and her partner didn't even have to rehearse for the role. [...]
EAST LANSING - When the 2006 Hate Group list is released by the Southern Poverty Law Center at the end of April, it will include a recognized Michigan State University student group. The group, Young [...]
Kyle Bristow, the author of the MSU Young Americans for Freedom agenda, has not returned phone calls and emails regarding YAF's designation as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Internal and online [...]
By D'Anne Wtitkowski "Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it..." Homosexuality in the animal kingdom is a well-documented fact. And now, thanks to experiments involving sheep, researchers in Idaho have determined [...]
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