Premiere: Puzzle Piece's 'Bird' Explores Disability and Race
By Tanya Gazdik, EncoreMichigan.com FERNDALE — It is said that art imitates life. That phrase couldn't hold truer than for a play like Bird, which is [...]
Review: 'Vera Stark' Mesmerizing at the Hilberry For Season Finale
By Patrice Nolan, EncoreMichigan.com DETROIT – By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, by two-time Pulitzer-prize winning dramatist Lynn Nottage, is the final show of [...]
Review: MOT's 'Girl of the Golden West' is Gold Indeed
BY Patrice Nolan DETROIT – Michigan Opera Theatre has staged many favorites by Giacomo Puccini, but this spring season brings us a first – The Girl of the [...]
"Avenue Q" Closes Out Theatre Company's 46th Season At UDM
DETROIT–The 46th season of The Theatre Company of University of Detroit Mercy concludes with Avenue Q, running March 23 – April 9, 2017. With music and lyrics [...]
1984' At Williamston Theatre
WILLIAMSTON — Williamston Theatre takes a turn at classic literature with the Michigan premiere of 1984 by George Orwell, adapted by Michael Gene [...]
Critically Acclaimed 'The Encounter' At UMS March 30-April 1
ANN ARBOR–In 1969, Loren McIntyre, a National Geographic photographer, found himself lost among the people of the remote Javari Valley in Brazil. It was an [...]
Gay Fan Fiction Wanted
Media Director Brandy Joe Plambeck and Artistic Director Joe Bailey of The Ringwald Theatre in Ferndale are sounding a call for new, original one-act plays [...]
Mind The Gap's 'The Lesson' More Relevant than Ever
by Patrice Nolan WATERFORD- In what feels to many like the winter of our discontent, small rays of sunshine are evident throughout the theater community via [...]
Preview: Ireland's Druid Brings 'The Beauty Queen of Leenane' to UMS in March
By Encore Michigan Staff Druid, the famed theater company from Galway, Ireland, which made its acclaimed UMS debut in 2011 with The Cripple of Inishmaan, [...]
Wild Swan will Hold Annual Benefit Concert March 19
ANN ARBOR – Children, adults and families are invited to celebrate Wild Swan Theater's 37th season and their annual benefit concert, An Afternoon of Ann [...]
Wild Swan celebrates Black History Month with 'Drum Me a Story'
ANN ARBOR – Wild Swan Theater continues its 37th season with Drum Me a Story in celebration of Black History Month. This collection of African tales was [...]
Williamston Theatre starts 2017 with the World Premiere of 'A Painted Window'
"A Painted Window" begins with five preview performances starting Jan. 26. During the first four previews audience members will have the opportunity to take [...]
