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Review: 'Usher' Famous Poe tale gets creative adaptation at Planet Ant Theatre A first-time playwright who chooses to adapt a well-known tale by a storyteller long celebrated for creating powerful images in the minds of his readers is either nuts [...]
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Review: 'And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank' Multimedia drama at Meadow Brook sheds light on evils of the Holocaust "I did what I was told," a member of Hitler's Youth tells the audience in Meadow Brook Theatre's latest [...]
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Review: 'I Hate Hamlet' There's nothing to hate about 'I Hate Hamlet' at the Hilberry Theatre Andrew Rally hates "Hamlet." It's not that he has anything against the play itself, but like many people, anything by Shakespeare is simply written off [...]
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Actor with Detroit roots returns to open Plowshares @ 15 celebration Lou Beatty Jr. to play title role in 'Paul Robeson' While preparing for the title role in "Paul Robeson" that opens Feb. 23 at Detroit's Music Hall Center for the Performing [...]
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Review: 'Side by Side by Sondheim' Send in the audience: Spectacular Sondheim revue gets loving treatment at the BoarsHead Love is in the air at Lansing's BoarsHead Theatre. Not only is that a song title from the BoarsHead's current show, "Side by [...]
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Professional Theater News Hot Off the Wires: Broadways' biggest blockbuster comes to Detroit and Affirmations has tickets FERNDALE – Affirmations has reserved a block of tickets for one of Broadway's top-grossing musicals, "Wicked," which arrives [...]
Film puts a face on the T community
Throughout the LGBT community's long battle for equal rights, one group of participants has often felt left out of the public discussion. And with good reason. For it's certainly no secret that some gays and lesbians are uncomfortable including the [...]
Genre Man of the Year?
BLOOMFIELD HILLS – He calls himself "just a regular guy," but 33-year-old Joe Fitrzyk staked out new territory late last year when he became Genre magazine's first-ever Genre Man from Michigan. And now – along with 83 other hopefuls from around the [...]
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Review: 'Pedro Orsini's Parade of Penniless Players' Playful production provides plenty of pleasure If an actor's life is full of strife, as Pedro Orsini's Parade of Penniless Players want you to believe at the opening of Planet Ant's 15th [...]
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Review: 'She Loves Me' A sweet smell of success permeates Performance Network's holiday musical Look out tap-dancing Santas, sugar plum fairies and ghosts of Christmases past: There's a NEW holiday treat in town – and it can be found only at Ann [...]
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Review: 'Coming to Life' 'Throwaways' come back to life in DRT season opener Five old ladies sitting around sharing their feelings in a weekly discussion group sounds as exciting as, well, watching wet paint dry. Populate the group with five [...]
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Preview: 'Topdog/Underdog' African Renaissance out to prove who's 'top dog' When you're one of the "new kids" in town – that is, you're the producer of one of Detroit's newest up-and-coming professional theater companies – there's a certain need [...]