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 [...]
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 [...]
In Dreamy 'Snow Queen,' Storytellers Reign
By Carolyn Hayes Harmer PuppetART's "Snow Queen" continues through Jan. 31, 2015. Photo: Detroit Puppet Theatre Winter doesn't officially begin until late [...]
Curtain Goes Down On Curtain Calls
Retiring editor Donald V. Calamia celebrating his recent 60th birthday. Photo: J. Williams Back in the summer of 2001 when co-publishers Jan Stevenson and [...]
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. [...]
Williamston Welcomes The Holidays With Heartwarming Comedy
By Bridgette M. Redman Beverly (Wendy Hedstrom), Jimmy (Tony Sump) and Clara (Ruth Crawford) await Ruth's (Emily Sutton-Smith) big announcement in "Miracle on [...]
Strong Talent Spins 'round Farmer's Alley
By Bridgette M. Redman "And the World Goes 'Round" continues at Farmers Alley Theatre in Kalamazoo through Dec. 28. Photo: Farmers Alley For Broadway divas [...]
