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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 [...]
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Review: 'The Story' BoarsHead and Plowshares stage riveting drama about race, office politics and journalistic ethics Imagine that you're a reporter who stumbles upon what could be the story of a lifetime. Would you fight to tell the story in the [...]
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Review: 'The Smell of the Kill' When housewives attack: Dinner theater presents screwball comedy Perhaps the operative phrases have fallen from your very own lips. "Sometimes she just drives me crazy!" Or, "You know, I could just kill him!" While [...]
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Review: 'One Hundred Twinkling Lights' The devil is in the details: Intriguing new play at Blackbird Theatre lacks clarity, suffers from clutter Playwrights get their inspiration from a wide variety of sources. For Barton Bund it was an anonymous [...]
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Preview: 'Two Rooms' Breathe Art crosses the border with contemporary love story Although it's a story seemingly ripped from today's headlines – an America university professor is taken hostage by terrorists in Beirut – "Two Rooms," a powerful [...]
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Review: 'Duck Hunter Shoots Angel' Good heavens: World premiere comedy closes Purple Rose season on celestial note It's probably safe to assume that one sure way NOT to get into heaven is to shoot one of The Almighty's angels out of the sky – even [...]
Sigourney Weaver and Jeff Daniels share 'Love Letters' July 26
CHELSEA – If going to the theater and watching a man and a woman read a lifetime of their correspondence sounds like a snooze-fest, you could be correct. But what if it's Jeff Daniels and Sigourney Weaver who take to the stage in A. R. Gurney's [...]
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Review: 'Betrayal' How men and women view relationships is at core of Pinter drama "It's all over," the audience is told at the end of the first scene of Harold Pinter's drama, "Betrayal," now playing at The Abreact on the edge of Detroit's [...]
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Review: 'Margaritaville' It's the Righteous Right's worst nightmare: Same-sex marriage becomes reality in new comedy Can two lovely lesbians in love turn the world around with their smiles? Probably not, but in Barton Bund's new comedy, [...]
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Walk & Squawk announces new collaboration between Detroit and South African artists DETROIT – Walk & Squawk Performance Project announces its latest initiative, "The Walking Project," with three days of special events at the Furniture [...]
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AA Chieftan.jpg: Material objects, such as the sword this Norse re-enactor shows, often signified a chieftain's high status. Photo by Anne Crowne. Credit: Anne Crowne Vikings to set up camp at Cranbrook this weekend BLOOMFIELD HILLS – Take a trip [...]
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A little mincing never hurt anyone – especially in a smash hit musical Stuart Marland steps into role as flamboyant director – and into the hearts of theatergoers It is not often that an actor steps into a major role in the middle of a tour and [...]