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Preview: 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' Gender-bending musical hits the border Imagine you're a young East German named Hansel and you fall in love with an American GI named Luther, but the only way you can legally marry him and move to the States is [...]
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Professional Theater News from Around Town: 'BREAK! the Urban Funk Spectacular' comes to Music Hall DETROIT – "BREAK! The Urban Funk Spectacular," a high-energy tribute to Hip-Hop dancing will take Detroit by storm March 10 and 11 at Detroit's [...]
Razzle-dazzle at the Fisher
Review: 'Chicago' Sexy guys, sizzling gals heat up 'Chicago' "Nobody walks out on me," Roxie Hart screams to her soon-to-be ex-lover, Fred Casely, as she pumps multiple bullets into him during the opening moments of "Chicago," the sizzling hot [...]
Choreographer to explore gay themes
NEW YORK – Christopher Williams doesn't consider himself to be a cool, cutting edge choreographer. Others disagree, however, including critics from the New York Times, the Village Voice, the NYC Dance Journal and Dance Magazine. That's because the [...]
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Review: 'Moonglow' New play by Kim Carney is 'the berries' "It's okay to let go." But it's never easy, playwright Kim Carney shows us in the world premiere of her comic-drama "Moonglow" at Ann Arbor's Performance Network Theatre. Carney's powerful [...]
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Review: 'Monday Nights @ Planet Ant' Jam at the Ant on Monday nights It has long been a tradition in the world of theater to leave Monday nights "dark." That is, to have one night a week in which the curtain never rises and the actors stay [...]
Review: 'Bad Dates'
Charming actress, killer shoes at the BoarsHead If there's one universal truth that all men and women equally share, it's that at some point in our lives, all of us have been on at least one bad date. That's being generous, of course. The truth is, [...]
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Preview: 'Guest Artist' Jeff Daniels' tenth play is a challenge "It's one of those that I just had to write." If there's one thing that theatergoers expect from a new Jeff Daniels' play, it's the unexpected. With nine original scripts already [...]
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Review: 'Uncoupled' Romance ads generate laughs at Improv Inferno It's such a simple concept, really: A short while before "Uncoupled" hits the Sunday evening stage at Ann Arbor's Improv Inferno, two audience members are each asked to pick out a [...]
A Kitten in outer space
"Not many people can take the tale of Patrick Braden," says "Kitten" in the opening moments of "Breakfast on Pluto." And sadly, that's probably true – thanks partly to the story itself and the style in which it's told, but also because of incredibly [...]
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OPINION: Confessions of a Cranky Critic The New Year brings a Bronx Cheer to a certain theater critic Little did I suspect on New Year's Eve – as I was tucked in my bed all by my lonesome reviewing the movie "Breakfast on Pluto" – that only a few [...]
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Year-End Review: 2005 Curtain closes on a very good year, indeed It was yet another season for the record books. Not content with an already hectic schedule, too busy – or is that dizzy? – theater critics crisscrossed the state and reviewed a [...]