Prize-Winning Musical Packs Emotional Punch
ROYAL OAK – Set to a thrilling pop-rock score, Pulitzer Prize-winning "Next to Normal" offers an intimate portrait of a family dealing with bipolar disorder [...]
Performance Network To Host Ann Arbor Film Festival For Two Nights
The Ann Arbor Film Festival will present two nights of its Cinema and Music Performance series at 11:30 p.m. Thursday, March 26 and Saturday, March 28 at the [...]
Ann Arbor Theater Performs Classic Children's Tale
ANN ARBOR — Award-winning Wild Swan Theater continues its 35th season of bringing the finest professional theater to families with "The Ugly Duckling." [...]
Make A Move With East Lansing's 'Chess - A Staged Concert'
By BTL Staff East Lansing's Wharton Center will host the inaugural "imaGen project" production this month: "Chess – A Staged Concert." Jen Werner, the [...]
Annual Shakespeare Festival In Royal Oak Announces Auditions
ROYAL OAK — Water Works Theatre Company announces that auditions for its 15th season of Shakespeare Royal Oak in Starr Jaycee Park will take place March 23 [...]
Women's Rights Explored In Slipstream Theatre Production
"A Doll's House" opens March 8 at the Michigan Actors Studio in Ferndale. Slipstream Theatre Initiative will present their third show, Henrik Ibsen's classic [...]
Teen Angst Comes To Royal Oak Stage
By BTL Staff "Spring Awakening," the edgy, pop/rock musical that took Broadway by storm and captured the 2007 Tony Award for Best Musical, sizzles with [...]
Peppermint Creek Takes On LGBT Rights, Aging In Couple's Story
By Bridgette Redman A lot can happen in 65 years – both in the life of a couple and in the world at large. Lansing's Peppermint Creek Theatre Company launches [...]
Beat The Winter 'Blues' In Ferndale
By Shelby Clark Petkus In protest of the ever-bitter Michigan cold, The Magic Bag hosts the "Anti-Freeze Blues Festival" this month in Ferndale. The two-day [...]
World Premiere At The Rep Explores Racial Dignity
Jenaya Jones-Reynolds and Aaron Kottke in "Sweet Pea's Mama." Photo: Lance Luce. "Sweet Pea's Mama" by Robert Lawrence Nelson, a timely story about racial [...]
Beck Bubbles As Avonlea's Anne
By Bridgette M. Redman "Anne of Green Gables" continues at What A Do Theatre through Dec. 20. Photo: WAD When you have a strong asset, you're going to use it. [...]
Wicked' Still Casts A Powerful Spell
By Jenn McKee "Wicked" continues at the Detroit Opera House through Jan. 4. Photo: Joan Marcus "Wicked" has long been typecast as "a girl thing," but while [...]
