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Review: 'And the World Goes 'Round' Meadow Brook closes season with musical tribute to Kander and Ebb "Sometimes you're happy, and sometimes you're sad," a Kander and Ebb song says, but audience members at the opening night performance of "The [...]
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Review: 'The Metamorphosis' Detroit's 'coolest theater' tackles Kafka with captivating results Some people get no respect. One such person is Gregor Samsa, a hardworking, unmarried man who supports his ungrateful family with a thankless job he [...]
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Review: 'Bus Stop' 'That Old Black Magic' works its spell at the Purple Rose "Somehow, deep inside me, I got a funny feeling I'm gonna end up in Montana," a 19-year-old nightclub singer, known only as Cheri, says in the romantic comedy "Bus [...]
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Review: 'Savage in Limbo' Shanley's characters are afraid to move on, but to their credit, DET's actors aren't What do you do when you put on a play and nobody comes? That's the decision that had to be made last Saturday night when only a theater [...]
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Review: 'Misalliance' Hilberry marries Shaw's chatty comedy with invigorating performances After attending the opening night performance of George Bernard Shaw's "Misalliance" at the Hilberry Theatre in Detroit this past Friday night, it's easy to [...]
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Preview: 'Mrs. Shakespeare Dishes the Dirt' Better half of The Bard finally gets her say in world premiere production If, as the theory goes, behind every great man stands a woman, there must have been one heck of a lady watching Shakespeare's [...]
Cult film star to perform one-man show at Michigan Theater
'The Big Slide Show' brings Crispin Hellion Glover to Ann Arbor ANN ARBOR – Crispin Hellion Glover will appear in his one-man show "The Big Slide Show" at the Michigan Theater on Saturday, April 16 at 8 p.m. The three-part program consists of [...]
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Review: 'Byrd's Boy' Platitudes on ice: Lost souls seek answers at the Detroit Rep It was an interesting question playwright Bruce J. Robinson once asked himself: What possibly could have driven the son of a famous and much-celebrated explorer to [...]
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Review: 'The Comedy of Errors' It's no error: BoarsHead doubles the comedy in classic Shakespeare tale It's no secret that working together can put a tremendous strain on a marriage. So with that in mind, a gentleman approached Diana Van Fossen [...]
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Review: 'Twilight' & 'The Trip' Opposites attract: ART stages comedy and drama at new home in downtown Detroit "There is a tremendous healing and educational power in theater," Oliver Pookrum states in the program for the latest production [...]
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Review: 'The Stillness Between Breaths' Sisters revisit wonders and regrets in world premiere at Performance Network Where were you on Nov. 22, 1963? April 4, 1968? Or Jan. 28, 1986? Tragic moments have a way of searing themselves into our [...]
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Preview: 'Little Shop of Horrors' Horrors! Blood-thirsty plant grows on actress Tari Kelly There's much that's striking about the musical "Little Shop of Horrors" that's coming to East Lansing's Wharton Center beginning March 29. For actress Tari [...]