It is with heavy hearts that the Michigan Opera Theatre shared the news that their beloved founder and artistic director David DiChiera has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The theatre website reads: "David is and [...]
By Tanya Gazdik, EncoreMichigan.com FERNDALE -- It is said that art imitates life. That phrase couldn't hold truer than for a play like Bird, which is inspired, and partially based, on true events. Playwright Kristin [...]
By Patrice Nolan, EncoreMichigan.com DETROIT - By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, by two-time Pulitzer-prize winning dramatist Lynn Nottage, is the final show of the Hilberry Theatre season, and it is simply mesmerizing. The play [...]
BY Patrice Nolan DETROIT - Michigan Opera Theatre has staged many favorites by Giacomo Puccini, but this spring season brings us a first - The Girl of the Golden West (la Fanciulla del West). Puccini [...]
Media Director Brandy Joe Plambeck and Artistic Director Joe Bailey of The Ringwald Theatre in Ferndale are sounding a call for new, original one-act plays (with the subject matter of furthering along the storyline to [...]
DETROIT--The 46th season of The Theatre Company of University of Detroit Mercy concludes with Avenue Q, running March 23 - April 9, 2017. With music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx and based [...]
WILLIAMSTON -- Williamston Theatre takes a turn at classic literature with the Michigan premiere of 1984 by George Orwell, adapted by Michael Gene Sullivan. Based on the iconic novel by George Orwell, 1984 brings us [...]
ANN ARBOR--In 1969, Loren McIntyre, a National Geographic photographer, found himself lost among the people of the remote Javari Valley in Brazil. It was an encounter that was to change his life: bringing the limits [...]
by Patrice Nolan WATERFORD- In what feels to many like the winter of our discontent, small rays of sunshine are evident throughout the theater community via productions that lend perspective, optimistic or otherwise, on the [...]
ANN ARBOR - Children, adults and families are invited to celebrate Wild Swan Theater's 37th season and their annual benefit concert, An Afternoon of Ann Arbor's Best. The concert will be held at The Ark [...]
By Encore Michigan Staff Druid, the famed theater company from Galway, Ireland, which made its acclaimed UMS debut in 2011 with The Cripple of Inishmaan, returns with a new production of Martin McDonagh's dark comedy [...]
By Jenn McKee ANN ARBOR - When an economically depressed town is at its breaking point, and residents are scrambling for solutions, you wouldn't expect the fiscal-strategy-of-choice to involve opening a theater. But in the [...]
ANN ARBOR - Wild Swan Theater continues its 37th season with Drum Me a Story in celebration of Black History Month. This collection of African tales was selected and developed for children ages 3 through [...]
"A Painted Window" begins with five preview performances starting Jan. 26. During the first four previews audience members will have the opportunity to take part in the process of creating a show by participating in [...]
By Tanya Gazdik From left; T.C. (Jonathan West), the gay son of George Montgomery (David Luther Glover) with Neil (Dan Johnson), T.C's longtime partner, who pushes T.C. to come out to his politically conservative father. [...]
By Tanya Gazdik The Ringwald presents the Michigan premiere of The Legend of Georgia McBride by Matthew Lopez runs through Jan. 30. The Ringwald Theatre is located at 22742 Woodward Ave. in Ferndale. Call 248-545-5545 [...]
By Jenn McKee Kate Shindle - star of the touring production of "Fun Home," which plays from Nov. 29 to Dec. 11 at Detroit's Fisher Theatre - has always been a bit of an overachiever. [...]
By EncoreMichigan.com Kaitlyn Valor Bourque as Charlotte For one weekend only, Slipstream will produce its annual Penny Dreadful Halloween experience. They explore themes of madness, art and terror in Penny Dreadful 2016: Under the [...]
By Amy J. Parrent It's Pride Month, and time to celebrate with - what else - some theater. Lucky for everyone, The Ringwald Theatre has rolled a seven - the seventh annual installment of the [...]
Two couples walk into a bar. Yes, that's a familiar opening to many a tale, but when the couples are Hermia and Lysander and Helena and Demetrius, and the bar is a gay nightclub with [...]
FERNDALE -- The Ringwald Theatre continues its Season of Classics with the Detroit premiere of "Heathers the Musical" by Kevin Murphy and Laurence O'Keefe. Based on the classic 1989 film, Westerberg High is ruled by [...]
Actor Brennan Hattaway has makeup applied. Photo courtesy of Riverwalk. Inhabited by heroin users, drag queens, the homeless and performance artists -- welcome to the world of Jonathan Larson's 1996 musical vision of the [...]
By Jenn McKee DEXTER - A "Saturday Night Live" writer once said that the show could leaven a risky sketch simply by putting Amy Poehler in it, calling the comedienne "a charm machine." But Dexter's [...]
The Theatre Company of the University of Detroit Mercy and Matrix Theatre Company recently announced their first joint production, Robin Bradford's "Low Hanging Fruit." The production is the Midwest premiere of the work. San Francisco [...]
BY BTL STAFF WHAT: Grosse Pointe Theatre presents "Chess, The Musical" WHEN: 2p.m. matinees on Jan. 17 & 24; 8 p.m. evening performances on Jan. 21-23, 28-30 WHERE: Grosse Pointe War Memorial Theater, 32 Lake [...]
By Tanya Gazdik You've got to really like someone to spend nearly two solid hours with them talking to you. Thankfully, Richard Payton is instantly likeable in the latest production at The Ringwald, "Buyer & [...]
By Anne Kiley Continuing its inaugural season, Detroit Public Theatre will offer audiences Michigan native Eric Gutman in his autobiographical one-man musical journey "From Broadway To Obscurity" Jan. 22-Feb. 20. Dreams collide in this hilariously [...]
CHELSEA, Mich. - The Purple Rose Theatre Company will ring in the new year with the second play of its 25th anniversary season, Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple." Two suddenly single pals -- a sloppy [...]
Community Circle Players, Inc., doing business as Riverwalk Theatre, has been awarded two grants by the State of Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA), including a Capital Development grant for $5,215 and an [...]
BY BTL STAFF East Lansing's The Wharton Center for Performing Arts presents its Act One Family Series, a series of weekend matinee performances providing the perfect opportunity to introduce children to the performing arts. These [...]
The Ringwald Theatre is sounding a call for new, original one-act plays to be performed at their Seventh Annual Gay Play Series (GPS). The Detroit-area's only LGBT short play festival is striving to provide early-career [...]
By Amy J. Parrent Theater artist Emilio Rodriguez's story of two teen boys in an LGBT homeless shelter will be included in the Michigan Playwrights' Festival at Ann Arbor's Theatre Nova. Photo: Brandy Joe Plambeck [...]
By David Kiley "A Streetcar Named Desire" plays through Monday, Dec. 7 at 8 p.m. on Friday, Saturday and Monday nights with 3 p.m. Sunday matinees. Ticket prices are $20 for Friday and Saturday performances, [...]
By David Kiley "The Passenger" runs through Nov. 22. Ticket prices range from $29-149. The Michigan Opera Theatre/Detroit Opera House is located at 1526 Broadway, Detroit. Following Michigan Opera Theatre's successful staging last month of [...]
By Amy J. Parrent "You have to love yourself. It's our prayer everyone can hear that." That is University of Detroit Mercy's Greg Grobis describing the theme of the award-winning play "The Whale," a co-production [...]
Maxim Vinogradov as Brad (left) and Jackson Abohasira as Jack (right). Photo courtesy of Slipstream Theatre Initiative. picture on server: S2_For2338_SlipstreamCC.jpg Photo Caption: Maxim Vinogradov as Brad (left) and Jackson Abohasira as Jack (right). [...]
ANN ARBOR - Theatre Nova unveils the two remaining plays of its 2015 season, following a successful Indiegogo funding campaign and well-received productions in the first half of the year. As well, the company reveals [...]
By Ed English Natural-born talents don't come more naturally than with digital painter and ceramicist Spencer Barefield. He's the son to a musically inclined father and artistically inclined mother, and by the age of 2 [...]
It lasted far longer than it was supposed to. When Pride Source Media Group and I launched http://EncoreMichigan.com in 2008, the website devoted exclusively to professional theater in Michigan was intended to be in use [...]
BY SHELBY CLARK PETKUS Metro Detroit's traditional array of events benefitting local LGBT organizations begins this month. Walk AIDS Walk Detroit commemorates its 25th year on Sunday, Sept. 13 with a 5K walk and quilt [...]
DETROIT - The Detroit Artist Market's current show, "We The Vehicles: A Tribute to Detroit Bicycle Culture," is all about and for bicycles. Each unique work of art either is a creation from scrap parts [...]
Susan Rogal is passionate about the city of Detroit. She is also passionate about art. As of late, she has intertwined these two passions under the umbrella of the Detroit Urban Design Studio. "Our motto [...]
DETROIT - Singer-songwriter, guitarist and activist Melissa Etheridge comes to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Oct. 12 to perform songs from her new album, "This is M.E.," as well as other known hits such as "Come [...]
Gay playwright Samuel Hunter wrote the award-winning play The Whale, a touching look into the psyche of a gay man after the loss of his lover. FERNDALE - The University of Detroit-Mercy's 45th [...]
Michigan Opera Theater Puccini's masterpiece, "La Boheme," is a timeless treasure that paints the story of a poor young couple seeking a lovers' paradise among resilient, struggling friends in the Latin Quarter of Paris. Some [...]
BY AJ TRAGER ROYAL OAK - Harvey Fierstein's fiery Broadway play, "Casa Valentina," will come to Detroit in May 2016. Performed by 2nd Stage, Stagecrafters Contemporary Theatre in an intimate blackbox theater design, "Casa Valentina," [...]
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. - Eisenhower Dance, Metro Detroit's premier contemporary dance company, is celebrating 25 years of dance. Founded by choreographer and Artistic Director Laurie Eisenhower in 1991, Eisenhower Dance has grown from a small ensemble [...]
BY BTL STAFF S2_Arts_MatrixSeason.jpg In honor of 25 years performing, Detroit's Matrix Theatre Company has released its four unique performances for the 2015-2016 season. The opening performance for the season, "A Kid Like Jake," highlights [...]
WEST BLOOMFIELD - Theater professionals from across Michigan gathered Aug. 31 for The 2015 Wilde Awards ceremony at The Berman Center for the Performing Arts. Presented by EncoreMichigan.com, the most comprehensive resource for news and [...]
"Jersey Boys" Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 13-18 Location: Wharton Center, Cobb Great Hall, East Lansing Tickets: From $35 Ticket Office: [...]
