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Matrix Theatre Company hosts benefit for Sanchez family March 31
DETROIT – A benefit performance of "Jesus in the Hood" will take place Saturday March 31 in honor of Christian Sanchez, a 13-year-old Academy of the America's student who was killed February 11 in Southwest Detroit. Matrix Theatre Company is [...]
New, improved: BTL's online theater news
How many of you log on to https://www.pridesource.com each week to check out the latest theater news in Curtain Calls ONLINE? How many of you even know this online-only column exists? (And how many of you have noticed that little black bar at the [...]
Saugatuck's Mason Street Warehouse announces summer season
SAUGATUCK – Mason Street Warehouse, an uptown theater in downtown Saugatuck, is pleased to announce its 2007 season. Mason Street Warehouse continues the tradition of presenting new and unique plays and musicals, opening the season with the regional [...]
Wharton Center announces 2007-08 season
EAST LANSING – Wharton Center for Performing Arts is pleased to announce its 2007-2008 25th anniversary season. Although much has changed since the opening night concert on September 25, 1982 when the Chicago Symphony Orchestra joined soprano Birgit [...]
Rent' cast party to benefit the Lansing Area AIDS Network
Winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a Tony Award for Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book in 1996, "Rent" returns to the Wharton Center for the Performing Arts at Michigan State University for two nights, April 6 and 7. "Rent" is the tale [...]
Rent': the theatrical experience that changed Broadway forever
EAST LANSING – See the critically acclaimed Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning Broadway musical that inspired a major motion picture. "Rent," written by Jonathan Larson and directed by Michael Greif, is coming to Wharton Center's Cobb Great Hall [...]
The Whiting presents the most colorful musical ever
FLINT – The most colorful musical ever, "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" is coming to The Whiting on Friday, April 6 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, April 7 at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" is a rainbow ride [...]
Classic Shaw meets classy Siebert in A2
REVIEW: 'Candida' Performance Network Theatre, 120 E. Huron, Ann Arbor. Thu.-Sun., through April 15. Tickets: $25-$37. For information: 734-663-0696 or http://www.performancenetwork.org There's something about George Bernard Shaw that turns off a [...]
A Little Princess' opens March 23 at Costick Center
FARMINGTON HILLS – "A Little Princess," the beloved tale made famous in the movie starring Shirley Temple, is coming to the Costick Center. Ten shows will be presented by the Farmington Hills Youth Theatre on two consecutive weekends, March 23 – 25 [...]
A theatrical sampler: Heartlande Theatre presents 'RetroFEST'
BEVERLY HILLS – Heartlande Theatre Company will present the 2nd annual "RetroFEST" on Saturday, March 31 at 7 p.m. in the Seligman Family Performing Arts Center at Detroit Country Day School in Beverly Hills. The evening will be Heartlande's sole [...]
Area youth ask: WWJD if he was born in Detroit?
DETROIT – What would happen if Jesus was born in America's inner city today? What if that was Southwest Detroit? What would his life be like? What would Mary and Joseph be like? Would they be seeking shelter in a YMCA or Soup Kitchen to deliver [...]
Icarus Falling postpones 'SexandViolets.com'
LANSING – Icarus Falling has postponed its upcoming production of "SexandViolets.com" by Joe Woodward. This production was originally scheduled to run March 23, 24, 30 and 31 at the Creole Gallery 1218 Turner St., Lansing. Revised dates and times [...]