Review: 'Hairspray'
Don't let the bee-hive hairdos scare you: The long-awaited musical is pure fun! Teenager Tracy Turnblad doesn't set out to change the world in the hit musical [...]
Science writer uses compassion, facts to explain 'The Riddle of Gender'
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman At first glance, Deborah Rudacille would seem like an unlikely candidate to write a book about transgenderism. A straight, white, natal [...]
Second annual Family Lobby Day to advocate for children
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman LANSING – LGBT activists and allies will work to protect the children of same-gender couples during the second annual Family Lobby Day [...]
Spanish Parliament OKs same-sex marriage
Spain's Congress of Deputies voteed to legalize same-sex marriage and adoption April 21. The vote was 183 to 136 with six abstentions. The bill now moves to [...]
Straight, gay students protest for equal marriage rights
By Dawn Wolfe Gutterman RUN WITH 1318/artwork/process/Liszewski mom, Kolb, group LANSING – On the chilly Wednesday morning of April 27, a small but determined [...]
The Cutting Edge . . .
By Paul Varnell The May issue of Harper's Magazine has a fascinating article by reporter Chris Hedges about the most recent convention of the National [...]
Theater Events for the period May 5 - 14
Professional Theater: Brighton Beach Memoirs Part one of Neil Simon's autobiographical trilogy is a portrait of the writer as a Brooklyn teenager in 1937. [...]
Women's golf outing to benefit HRC and Triangle Foundation
PLYMOUTH – On May 14 women who golf will gather for the annual outing to benefit Human Rights Campaign and Triangle Foundation, organizations that work on the [...]
Curtain Calls
Theater Profile: Jewish Ensemble Theatre Company New JET season to salute Yiddish theater and Jewish playwrights It was a gamble that paid off well for the [...]
Curtain Calls XTRA
Preview: 'Golf: The Musical" Foursome tees off Aug. 25 with comedic look at favorite Michigan pastime Meadow Brook Theatre's managing director John Manfredi [...]
