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Review: 'Coming of Age' Time marches on in JET world premiere Let's be honest about something: Getting older is a bitch. While some of us age gracefully and accept whatever mental and physical changes come our way, others fight the transition with [...]
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Year-End Review: 2004 There's no doubt about it: Theater was alive and well in 2004 It was a year for the record books! 2004 was the year two tuckered-out theater critics reviewed an astounding 96 professional theater productions, up from 72 the [...]
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Review: 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown' 'Good grief' at Meadow Brook Theatre Growing up is never easy, especially if you're a neurotic, round-headed kid named Charlie Brown. The star of the brilliant comic strip "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schulz, [...]
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Professional Theater News from Around Town: Musical comedy makes cancer a laughing matter HAMTRAMCK – Hamtramck's Planet Ant Theatre is pleased to announce the return of "Cancer! The Musical" after a sold out run at the Abreact Theatre. Second [...]
There's nothing kinky about delightful British comedy
'Kinky Boots' has sole – and plenty of them If "Brokeback Mountain" is the LGBT community's powerful, big screen drama and "Transamerica" is our warm and introspective "road picture," then the upcoming film "Kinky Boots," which opens April 28 at [...]
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Review: 'A View from the Bridge' The view's not pretty – but excellent Remember that childhood tale, "The Little Engine That Could"? You know, the "I think I can, I think I can" little train that struggles to get over a huge mountain that larger [...]
From burkas to perms: 'The Beauty Academy of Kabul'
Film documents transformation of post-war Afghan women DETROIT – Can a war-torn country be saved – one permanent at a time? That's the million-dollar question posed by "The Beauty Academy of Kabul," a fascinating documentary about war, women and [...]
Anarchy rules at the Detroit Film Theatre
ROYAL OAK – Film, we've been led to believe, is a collaborative art form. If you listen to the speeches uttered at every Oscar ceremony, the picture that's painted is one of joint vision and execution. That is, every movie made is the direct result [...]
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CC House2.jpg: Comedian/actor Jen House stars in her first one-woman show, "Who's House." Photo courtesy The Abreact Review: 'Who's House?' Presto-chango: Jen & Co. are in the house I have to admit that I chuckled when a press release from [...]
Kalamazoo-based improv troupe 'comes out' with a divine comedy
KALAMAZOO – It seems only natural that an improv comedy team on the road to its first-ever international improv festival might want to bring a video camera along to record its journey. That's just what members of the Kalamazoo-based Crawlspace [...]
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Review: 'Late Night Comedy at Planet Ant' Red rocks, audience flocks to Planet Ant on Thursday nights My friends thought I was nuts. There I was, sitting in a theater at 11 o'clock on a Thursday night waiting for a show to begin. "No one will be [...]
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Review: 'Fiddler on the Roof' Sun sets on season as 'tradition' finally finds its way to JET If there are two things in the world that would seem to be a perfect match, it would be the Jewish Ensemble Theater Company and the musical "Fiddler on [...]