Champions' Are Champs In A Very Special Way
By Dana Casadei After winning Planet Ant's Colony Fest this past summer, "Champions," written by the improv troupe Question Marky Mark and directed by Lauren [...]
Blood And Body Parts Dominate 'Sweeney Todd'
By Bridgette M. Redman 'Tis the season when many theaters are selecting shows that are spooky, creepy and tinged with horror. What A Do Theater celebrates the [...]
Murder Most Foul' Chills Broadway Onstage
By John Quinn Before the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, directed the stylish 1954 film, "Dial 'M' for Murder" was a successful television and stage [...]
Planet Ant Delivers Food For Thought
Hamtramck – A town almost completely surrounded by its much larger neighbor, Detroit – was once home to Southeast Michigan's Polish community. In 1970, 90 [...]
Twisted Tale Burns A Candle Of Hope
By Bridgette M. Redman Does life ever become so horrible that it would have been better to have never been born? That's one of many questions that the dark [...]
Confrontation Of The Past Leads To Tense Psychological Drama
By John Quinn In reflecting on his 1990 play, "Death and the Maiden," Chilean-born writer Ariel Dorfman noted, "I wanted to look at the question of how we [...]
The Hiberry Celebrates 50 Years With Christie Classic
By John Quinn The Grand Dame of Crime, Agatha Christie, deserves a category in "Trivial Pursuit" (that, my children, was a board game we played before the [...]
Moonlight and Magnolias' Is Hollywood Hilarity
By Martin F. Kohn You don't, unless you're a very unusual person, think of "Gone With the Wind" as a Hollywood laff riot. The writing of the movie, on the [...]
Laughing Through The Tears At Go!
By John Quinn The sheer wealth of original comedy available to local audiences is remarkable, given the relatively few artists who are proficient in [...]
Busfield And Decker Hold Painfully Funny Vigil
By Bridgette M. Redman You don't need a lot of words to communicate a lot of meaning. At least, you don't if you're Carmen Decker. Timothy Busfield does nearly [...]
A Clever Commentary On The State Of The Union
By John Quinn "The American political landscape is a mess and it's time to whip this country into shape." Do we really need a press release from an [...]
Art of Coexistence' Hits Speed Bump In 'God of Carnage'
As the saying goes: Boys will be boys. It's probably safe to assume that the first 11 year old boys to roam the earth probably played together, scuffled [...]
