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Preview: Matrix Theatre's 15th Anniversary Season Theater pioneers prove there's no business like show business in Detroit If, as the saying goes, there's nothing that succeeds like success, then Shaun and Wesley Nethercott must be smash [...]
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Review: 'Ice Glen' Icy hearts thaw in season opener "Letting go of anything is painful." And it's never easy, playwright Joan Ackermann's explains in her latest work, "Ice Glen," now playing at Ann Arbor's Performance Network Theatre. Ackermann's [...]
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Review: 'Two Men in a Box' Characters get boxed in at Planet Ant "What is the purpose of life in a box?" That's the burning question these days at Hamtramck's Planet Ant Theatre where Daniel Roth's existential – or is it absurdist? – comedy, "Two [...]
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Theater Profile: Kristine Thatcher Hail to the chief: Meet BoarsHead's new artistic director It's not often that a teenager's dreams become her adult reality, but Kristine Thatcher, the new artistic director of Lansing's BoarsHead Theatre, is [...]
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Review: 'King o' the Moon' Times change, not family love at BoarsHead In last season's smash hit, "Over the Tavern," BoarsHead Theatre patrons were introduced to the Pazinski family, a fairly typical blue-collar Catholic family of the late 1950s. [...]
Young girls - and gay boys - will swoon over Corey Boardman
Actor plays leader of God-inspired boy band in 'Altar Boyz' DETROIT – He can sing, he can dance and he's got that "all-American boy next door" look that makes young girls swoon. So it's easy to see why 19-year-old Corey Boardman was cast to play [...]
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The 2005 Wilde Awards It's official: It truly was 'One Wilde Night' More than 200 people from Michigan's professional theater, LGBT and political communities came together Sept. 1 for "One Wilde Night" – and that's exactly what they got! From the [...]
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Preview: 'An Immaculate Misconception' Science and ethics collide in timely drama Some might find it ironic that a scientist who spent much of his first career preventing birth is now, in his third career, writing plays about the ethics of birth [...]
Get 'Sticky'
Superman and Batman, Archie and Jughead, and Fred and Barney were never like this! Comic books – once the bastion of flying crusaders, teenage angst and popular cartoon characters – are now primarily devoured by males in their 20s and 30s, many of [...]
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Review: 'In iPod We Trust' Second City feels right at home in Novi Second City Detroit returned to the stage – albeit a new stage in Novi – last week after a way-too-long hiatus and reminded us why this ten-year-old troupe has long been a local [...]
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Preview: "In iPod We Trust" Finally: Second City returns (but in Novi) Since its unexpected departure from Hockeytown nearly a year-and-a-half ago, The Second City Detroit has pretty much fallen off the cultural radar. The art of improvisation, [...]
Home run for actor
DETROIT – Unlike many teachers during their summer break, Ray Schultz didn't take a vacation this year, find a temporary job or continue his own education. He's actually doing all three, at the same time no less, with the added bonus of hanging out [...]