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CC1 Humble.jpg: Paul Hopper, Barbara Coven and Gillian Eaton breathe life into "Humble Boy" at Ann Arbor's Performance Network Theatre. Photo: Peter Smith. Review: 'Humble Boy' Here's the buzz: 'Stinging' comedy opens Performance Network [...]
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Review: "The Adventures of Captain Neat-O Man" & "Space F*ckers" HEADLINE Super heroes, aliens and kidnappers, oh my! DECK It's just the start of another season of 'coolness' at Abreact I admit it: I'm a sucker for small, intimate, "cool" [...]
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Preview: 'Pandora's Box Fest' Local women directors 'think inside the box' and create evening of innovative theater Think of it as a variation of the old adage, "Don't get madÉget even." Frustrated by the lack of directing opportunities for [...]
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Review: 'A New Brain' There's trouble in YOUR brain if you don't enjoy 'A New Brain' If heart and music make a song, as playwright William Finn tells us in "A New Brain," then The Actors' Company scores well with its current production of the [...]
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Sherman to play expanded role at BoarsHead Theatre LANSING – BoarsHead Theatre artistic director Geoffrey Sherman will expand his role at mid-Michigan's only professional resident theater next month when he temporarily assumes the duties of [...]
Membership opportunities at Lawrence Street Gallery
FERNDALE – Lawrence Street Gallery, located in downtown Ferndale, is conducting portfolio reviews for local artists working in any media who are interested in gallery membership. The gallery is an association of local artists, and features [...]
Camp for LGBT youth becoming a reality
And it'll be funded by 'Candy Corn' FLINT – It was a cold December day in 2000 when Antonia David Garcia angrily walked 60 miles from Swartz Creek to Lansing, but the fruit borne of that life-changing experience will soon benefit LGBT youth from [...]
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Preview: 'A New Brain' Theater might not be brain surgery, but gay-themed musical will surely tickle the funny bone If there's a topic for a musical that doesn't sound the least bit uplifting, it's got to be brain surgery. But a tumor discovered [...]
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Preview: 'Full Gallop' Run, don't gallop, to Mason Street Warehouse to see soap star Jill Larson in delicious comedy Don't be shocked, soap opera fans, if you run into Opal Gardner Purdy Cortlandt wandering the streets of Saugatuck this summer. [...]
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Review: 'The Underpants' Sophisticatedly silly sex farce is bloomin' fun! Everyone needs a good chuckle in these depressing times of war and presidential campaigns, so get on your knees and thank your favorite deity for The Purple Rose Theatre [...]
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Theater Profile: Fisher Players at Matrix Theatre Screw stigma: Troupe creates original works about mental illness "People don't have a clue about what we have to go through," Melanie Ortiz, a poet and member of the Fisher Players, said about [...]
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Profile: Footlights LGBT group at Detroit Opera House looks to expand membership Some stereotypes are hard to break. Take the opera, for example. When I mentioned to a few friends that I was writing a story about an LGBT social group that recently [...]