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OTHER VOICES: Jenn McKee reviews The Casting Session for MLive.com
Jeff Daniels' new stage comedy, "Casting Session," now having its world premiere at Chelsea's Purple Rose Theatre, features an actor whose only line in a... Continue Reading
OTHER VOICES: Linda Mah reviews Farmers Alley’s Little Shop of Horrors for Mlive.com
One wouldn't think that playing a plant would be such a strenuous workout. But for actor Brian Panse playing Audrey II the carnivorous plant from... Continue Reading
OTHER VOICES: Amy Parrent for Pridesource on UDM/Ringwald’s The Whale
"You have to love yourself. It's our prayer everyone can hear that." That is University of Detroit Mercy's Greg Grobis describing the theme of the... Continue Reading
OTHER VOICES: Susan Whithall in Detroit Free Press on fall/winter Detroit theater
It appears that the bustle in downtown Detroit has translated into increased box office activity for the city’s dramatic offerings. Ticket sales for the season’s... Continue Reading
OTHER VOICES: John Monaghan on upcoming theater season; Detroit Free Press
Ever since playing a porcupine as fifth-grader in a school production of “The Wind in the Willows,” Julia Garlotte has had a love affair with... Continue Reading
OTHER VOICES: The Lansing State Journal on Ixion’s Glengarry Glen Ross
Lansing’s newest theater is opening its second season in Lansing’s newest theater venue. Ixion, brainchild of Jeff Croff, the former artistic director of Icarus Falling,... Continue Reading
OTHER VOICES: Williamston Theatre launch party
FROM Williamston Today, Sept. 12: Williamston Theatre hosted their annual launch party fundraiser on September 10th to kickoff of the 2015-2016 season. The weather allowed the... Continue Reading
OTHER VOICES: from Pridesource–a new owner and expanded mission for EncoreMichigan.com
It lasted far longer than it was supposed to. When Pride Source Media Group and I launched EncoreMichigan.com in 2008, the website devoted exclusively to professional theater... Continue Reading
OTHER VOICES: from IXITI.com, anniversaries and premieres highlight the 2015-2016 season
If the calendar says September, then it must be time for theaters across Southeast Michigan to begin opening their doors on the 2015-16 season. From... Continue Reading
Read Dan Skora’s blog review of “Drowsy Chaperone” at The Dio
It’s quirky. Sometimes it even feels like it’s been stitched together from vignettes and sketches. It had an inauspicious beginning in 1997 as a performance... Continue Reading