When Love And Marriage Are No Horse And Carriage
By John Quinn Chip DuFord, Cheryl Turski and Stephen Blackwell in "The Constant Wife" at Meadow Brook Theatre. Photo: Rick Smith William Somerset Maugham was [...]
Hello! Irreverent 'Book of Mormon' Accomplishes Its Mission At The Fisher
After a Mormon family moved in across the street from me many years ago, I became accustomed to finding smiling, neatly pressed and overly friendly pairs of [...]
Once More Unto The Breach
By John Quinn American musical theater provides broad choices. The hot ticket in town right now is "The Book of Mormon," big, brash and raunchy. Compare that [...]
Raise A Glass, Bend An Ear
By Carolyn Hayes To close its all-Irish season, The Abreact could not have made a more Irish-for-Irish's sake selection than "The Weir." Beer, whiskey, yarn [...]
Good News,' Big Laughs At The Ant
By Dana Casadei Journalism is an ever-changing game. You constantly have to roll with the punches, learn new skills, and stay up to date on, ya know, the [...]
Go's Look Back Moves Full Speed Ahead
By Carolyn Hayes Go Comedy! Improv Theater has been slinging drinks and off-the-cuff improvised comedy for well over four years, but it has also been making [...]
Reflections Of Elvis - Through A Glass, Darkly
By John Quinn The cult of celebrity is a defining characteristic of the common culture. It's not a new phenomenon – witness the teen-age Judy Garland mooning [...]
Phoenix' Rising
By Carolyn Hayes On paper, playwright Scott Organ's "Phoenix" is a sleek little nugget of a play. The plot encompasses just two characters; their story takes [...]
Good People' Is Good, Indeed
By Martin F. Kohn There's a rueful old joke about how people in Harlem in the 1930s never knew there was a Depression. Substitute Recession for Depression and [...]
Potted' Is A Love Song To 'Harry Potter'
By Dana Casadei I discovered the "Harry Potter" series when I was in the fourth grade. It was an instant obsession that would follow my friends and I not only [...]
State of Emergency' In Need Of Acute Care
By Bridgette M. Redman Shop Floor Theatre Company will present "State of Emergency" at various locations throughout Flint through March 9. Photo: SFTC People [...]
Troupe Delves Into British Gay History
By Bridgette M. Redman The New Theatre Project presents "Edward the Second," an original adaptation or Marlowe's "Edward II" by Jason Sebacher beginning March [...]
