Encore Michigan
Detroit Rep’s world premiere ‘Williston’ probes the slag of corporate life
DETROIT, Mich.–In corporate America, things and people are rarely what they seem. It's a bloodsport of survival, fear, attack, politics and strategizing how you are... Continue Reading
Enter Stage Right performs…gasp…’I Hate Hamlet’
PORT HURON, Mich.–Everyone loves Shakespeare, right? I mean, what person with a brain, or a heart, doesn’t appreciate the greatest English language playwright ever. [pause]... Continue Reading
STI’s ‘Gross Indecency’ honors Oscar Wilde and Pride Month
FERNDALE, Mich.—Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, by Moises Kaufman (The Laramie Project), is Slipstream Theatre Initiative’s moving contribution to Pride Month. Kaufman’s... Continue Reading
Barn Does Disaster Redux To Open Season
The Barn Theatre sold out its run of Disaster last September, so it decided to open its new season with the show with some different... Continue Reading
‘Funnyman’ touches the funny bone and heart
NORTHVILLE, Mich.–“It’s tragedy! We have to laugh. When things are horrible, what else do we have?” Brandy Joe Plambeck as Playwright Victor La Plant yells... Continue Reading
Wilde Theatre’s ‘Leaving Iowa’ comes home in Brighton
BRIGHTON, Mich.–As soon as the temperatures start to increase and the days get longer, the unofficial start of summer begins with the new summer theatrical... Continue Reading
‘The It Girl’ provides a frothy trip to the ’20s at Meadow Brook
ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich.–The It Girl, the season-closer currently playing at Meadow Brook Theatre, is a summery confection, silly and sweet, the whipped cream topping on... Continue Reading
‘Songs About Stuff’ at Flint Rep hits Pleasant Gen X music
FLINT, Mich.–Generation X is somewhat of a lost generation—dwarfed in numbers by the generations on either side of it–its voice always too quiet to make... Continue Reading
As You Like It Comes To Detroit
GROSSE POINTE, Mich.— The Forest of Arden has been transplanted to the east side of Detroit, thanks to Portable Folio Productions’ staging of As You... Continue Reading
A2 Pulp: Kill Move Paradise at Theatre Nova
By Hugh Gallagher ANN ARBOR, Mich.–Sometimes it seems like every few days a black American is gunned down by a police officer. They are often... Continue Reading
