By Bridgette M. Redman In the 400 years since "The Tempest" was first performed, it has been put up in venues as diverse as the spirits that inhabit Prospero's haunted isle. With the play so [...]

By Michael H. Margolin The New Theatre Project, the tiny 30-some seat in Ypsilanti, again brings a young playwright's work to theatrical fulfillment. With "Fugue," Audra Lord has chosen a theme - not unlike Sartre's [...]

by Richard Labonte "The Stranger's Child," by Alan Hollinghurst. Knopf, 448 pages, $27.95 hardcover. For gay fans of Hollinghurst's first novel, "The Swimming-Pool Library," his new work - seven years in the writing - may [...]

Meeting Denis O'Hare should be scary as hell. But today, in the back of homo-hotspot Saint Felix in West Hollywood on his day off, O'Hare doesn't project the eeriness he does as a horny "True [...]

Downtown Ferndale has been transforming itself into an artfully-sculpted wonderland every holiday season for years, but this year the 11th Annual Holiday Ice & Winterfest Market, presented by the MotorCity Casino Hotel, will take your [...]

By Romeo San Vicente Don't call it 'The A-List' Contempt breeds ratings and ratings breed copycats and that's why, with the success of "The A-List: New York" and "The A-List: Dallas," comes a reality series [...]

By Jack Fertig Q Scopes This week's lunar eclipse will be partially visible in New Zealand, but felt everywhere as brainstorms lead too easily to arguments. Rather than inadvertently showing off what you don't know, [...]

Hear Me Out Rihanna, 'Talk That Talk' Rihanna doesn't beat around the bush - and that's not meant to be a dirty-minded pun, though her sixth, and worst, studio album is full of them. She's [...]

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By Dan Woog The OutField At 6-feet-4-inches - and still three months away from his 16th birthday - Galen Dodd might have been expected to play basketball. There's pressure to do so on every tall [...]

FERNDALE - If you're allergic to shopping malls, excessive commercialism or egg nog, Who Wants Cake? has the perfect solution to restore a smile to your overburdened holidays. Opening Dec. 18 at Ferndale's Ringwald Theatre [...]

Remember in the not-so-distant past when Michigan's film incentives brought plenty of excitement to towns all across the state? Well, multiply that reaction by at least three and the result is Martin McDonagh's "The Cripple [...]

By Judith Cookis Rubens Last December, Farmers Alley audiences met Suzy, Missy, Cindy Lou and Betty Jean - a quartet of high school gal pals known as "The Marvelous Wonderettes." The off-Broadway musical revue (of [...]

By John Quinn The famous last words are attributed to many English actors - Kean, Wolfit, Shaw - but, the story goes, a deathbed visitor comforted the soon-to-be-dearly-departed by saying, "Dying must be hard." "No," [...]

By John Quinn It was early exposure to J. R. R. Tolkien's essays on storytelling that has led me to an ongoing fascination with how a story is told. "The Greatest Gift" is a 1939 [...]