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Review: 'The World Over' Buckle your swashes, mate, for a fantasy-filled voyage at Blackbird Theatre Pretty much all young boys and girls go through a period in which they dream of themselves as dragon slayers saving their kingdom, beautiful [...]
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Review: 'Hannibal of the Alps' World premiere drama at Detroit Rep examines the sexuality of poet Langston Hughes When Hannibal crossed the Alps Ð with elephants, no less Ð into Italy in 218 B.C., he was an already established military leader [...]
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Review: 'The Laramie Project' Detroit Ensemble ends season and leaves Roseville on high note The horrific murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard in October 1998 brought the community of Laramie, Wyoming under intense scrutiny. To much of the [...]
Come to the 'Cabaret,' my friends - and support a worthy cause
ANN ARBOR – Concerned about the direction in which he saw the country heading, Ann Arbor resident, theater director and activist Chris O'Brien made two important decisions: He decided that his next theatrical endeavor would make a timely political [...]
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Review: 'Summer and Smoke' 'They're all a bit peculiar' in sizzling rendition of lesser-known Tennessee Williams classic Playwright Tennessee Williams had mommy issues. And sister issues. And mother-daughter issues. Hell, the two-time Pulitzer [...]
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Preview: 'Now That I Can Dance – Motown 1962' The original Motown sound comes alive in world premiere production by Mosaic Youth Theatre The "once-forgotten" girl-group of the early 1960s that gave Motown Records its first number one hit is making [...]
Review: 'Hairspray'
Don't let the bee-hive hairdos scare you: The long-awaited musical is pure fun! Teenager Tracy Turnblad doesn't set out to change the world in the hit musical "Hairspray," now playing at Detroit's Masonic Temple Theatre. It's just that she can't [...]
Theater Events for the period May 5 - 14
Professional Theater: Brighton Beach Memoirs Part one of Neil Simon's autobiographical trilogy is a portrait of the writer as a Brooklyn teenager in 1937. Staged Wednesday through Sunday (excluding Friday) by the Jewish Ensemble Theatre Company at [...]
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Theater Profile: Jewish Ensemble Theatre Company New JET season to salute Yiddish theater and Jewish playwrights It was a gamble that paid off well for the Jewish Ensemble Theatre Company. The 2003/04 theater season started out slowly for JET, [...]
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Preview: 'Golf: The Musical" Foursome tees off Aug. 25 with comedic look at favorite Michigan pastime Meadow Brook Theatre's managing director John Manfredi has a favorite mantra these days, and it goes something like this: "If I can get you in [...]
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You betcha – Purple Rose continues excellent season with heartwarming family comedy The Brownings are not a predictable family, theatergoers discover at The Purple Rose Theatre Company, and neither is "Leaving Iowa," the world premiere comedy by [...]
Director of detroit contemporary parts ways
DETROIT – detroit contemporary announces the departure of Phaedra Robinson as director of the five year old gallery and performance venue. Robinson became director after founder Aaron Timlin left to fill the position of executive director of the [...]