Cranky Critic: Read Don Calamia on Planet Ant’s “Orson’s Shadow”
It was an unofficial team-up.
Its backstory was a long time in the making. Since its establishment in 1997, Hamtramck’s Planet Ant Theatre has had a succession of artistic directors, each of whom had (or, currently, has) a unique vision for the popular venue. And since its founding in 2000, The Abreact has produced its shows in a handful of performance spaces throughout the Downtown, Greektown and Corktown neighborhoods of Detroit. Both, at times, shared similar visions, and it wasn’t unusual to find some of the same artists working at both places.