Detroit Public Theatre Closes Second Season with World Premiere Play
In "The Harassment of Iris Malloy," a single mother places a bet on a new life after an intimate encounter with a decorated senator, and the media fallout [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Michigan Opera Theatre Pays Tribute to David DiChiera
It is with heavy hearts that the Michigan Opera Theatre shared the news that their beloved founder and artistic director David DiChiera has been diagnosed with [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
"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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
