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PREVIEWS & INTERVIEWS ARCHIVES: Links to previews and interviews from EncoreMichigan.com - 2009
December
A Few Minutes With: JET intern Jennifer Zubernick
The Making of The Hebrew Hammer - Part 2 of 2 (with Jonathan Kesselman)
The Making of The Hebrew Hammer - Part 1 of 2 (with Shannon Ferrante)
A Few Minutes With: Michael J. Barnes of Ain't Misbehavin' – The Fats Waller Musical
A Few Minutes With: Detroiter Eric Gutman of Jersey Boys
November
A Few Minutes With: Bret Beaudry of FYT's It's a Wonderful Life
A Wilde madness comes to the Planet Ant
A Few Minutes With: Rachel York of The 101 Dalmatians Musical at the Fox Theatre
A Few Minutes With: Leslie Uggams of A Little Night Music
A Few Minutes With: Jeff Croff of Icarus Falling
A Few Minutes With: Playwright Joseph Zettelmaier
October
A Few Minutes With: Scott Dambacher of Hedwig and the Angry Inch
A Few Minutes With: Michelle Terry of Love's Labour's Lost at Power Center
A Few Minutes With: Kitty Dubin of The Blank Page at JET
A Few Minutes With: Francesca Patane of Nabucco at MOT
A Few Minutes With: Jerry Mitchell of Legally Blonde The Musical
September
A Few Minutes With: Steve Schultz and Edward J. Thomas of the Extra Mile Playwrights Group
A Few Minutes With: Satori Circus of No Fixed Address throughout Midtown Detroit
A Few Minutes With: Rita McKenzie of Ethel Merman's Broadway
A Few Minutes With: Sky Covington of The Nina Simone Revue
A Few Minutes With: Jeff Daniels of Escanaba at The Purple Rose Theatre
A Few Minutes With: Tim Martin Gleason of The Phantom of the Opera at the Detroit Opera House
August
A Few Minutes With: Bobby List of Disney's High School Musical at DeVos Performance Hall
A Few Minutes With: Katie Doyle of Lansing's Renegade Theatre Festival
A Few Minutes With: Judy Dery of the Macomb Theatre At-The-Barn reunion committee
A Few Minutes With: Phil Simmons of 8th Wonder Theatre
July
BoxFest '09: A women's world at The Furniture Factory
A Few Minutes With: Amise of Kwame a River 2: The Wrath of Conyers at Andiamo Novi Theatre
A Few Minutes With: Beau Hutchings of Hair at Tibbits Summer Theatre
Lesbian Man steams up Hotter Than July
Water Works' Shakespeare in the Park grows up with a show for kids
A Few Minutes With: Joe Plambeck of Anne Frankenstein: The Musical at The Ringwald
A Few Minutes With: John Astin of Bluff at BoarsHead Theater
Talking Shakespeare with John Neville-Andrews
Fringing it all the way to...Windsor
A Few Minutes With: Neil Berg of 100 Years of Broadway at Meadow Brook Music Festival
A Few Minutes With: Eric Parker of The Full Monty at the Barn Theatre
An (8th) wonder-ful summer season returns to Canton
June
A Few Minutes With: Playwright Carey Crim of Wake at The Purple Rose Theatre
A Few Minutes With: John M. Manfredi of A Picasso at Performance Network
A Few Minutes With: Kevin Burnham of Capital TheaterWorks
A Few Minutes With: Michigander Dominic Fortuna of Grease at the Fisher Theatre
A Few Minutes With: Brendan Malafronte of Thomas & Friends Live! at the Fox Theatre
A Few Minutes With: Improviser, actor & host Dave Davies
May
A Few Minutes With: Joe Bailey of Who Wants Cake? Theatre at The Ringwald
A Few Minutes With: Joseph Zettelmaier, co-author of Flyover, USA: Voices From Men of the Midwest
A Few Minutes With: Frannie Shepherd-Bates of Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company
A Few Minutes With: Scott Cummins of Squawking Parrot Productions
A Few Minutes With: Michael Holmes of The Judy Show
A Few Minutes With: Terie Spencer of Play With Your Food Productions
A Few Minutes With: Homero Velho of Carmen at the Michigan Opera Theatre
A Few Minutes with: Paula Prentiss of The Glass Menagerie at BoarsHead Theater
A Few Minutes With: Shawn P. Williams of Shawn P. Entertainment
April
Mosaic's 8 Mile seeks to unify what 8 Mile divides
A Few Minutes With: Lauren Bickers, director of Sirs at Planet Ant
A Few Minutes With: Co-producers Christina Johnson and Tony Caselli
A Few Minutes With: Michael Brian Ogden of Bleeding Red at The Purple Rose Theatre
A Few Minutes With: Brandon Victor Dixon of The Color Purple
Everything's Coming Up Patti (LuPone)
Elaine Stritch comes home to the Motor City for benefit production April 17-18
A Few Minutes With: Joanna Krupnick of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
March
A Few Minutes With: Dennis Wickline of Broadway Onstage Live Theatre
Family searches for its heart at the Detroit Rep
A Few Minutes With: Alex Black of Movin' Out at the Fox Theatre
A Few Minutes With: Timothy Carter of The Lion King at Wharton Center
A Few Minutes With: Carrie Cimma of Sweeney Todd at Detroit's Fisher Theatre
A Few Minutes With: Vince Valentine of Defending the Caveman at the Macomb Center
A Few Minutes With: Ben Hollis of What's It Like To Be You? at The Acorn Theater
A Few Minutes With: Chaim Topol of Fiddler on the Roof at the Detroit Opera House
A Few Minutes With: Shannon Ferrante, director of Red Light Winter at Planet Ant Theatre
A Few Minutes With: Timothy Wojtala of TNT Productions
A Few Minutes With: Jennifer Robinson of Smuckers Stars on Ice at The Palace of Auburn Hills
A Few Minutes With: Alex Mustakas, director of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at the Macomb Center
February
A Few Minutes With: Kyle Riabko of Spring Awakening at Wharton Center
A Few Minutes With: Evelyn Orbach, founding artistic director of The Jewish Ensemble Theatre Company
A Few Minutes With: Don McCarron of Lord of the Dance
Monkeying around at Meadow Brook with Cindy Williams and Eddie Mekka
A Few Minutes With: James Beaman of Monty Python's Spamalot at Detroit's Fisher Theatre
A tiny slice of Broadway opens in Dexter: The Encore Musical Theatre Company
January
A Few Minutes With: Steve Landes of RAIN: A Tribute to the Beatles at DeVos Performance Hall
