Encore Michigan
Read Patty Nolan’s review of “Calendar Girls,” for Examiner.com
“Calendar Girls,” now running at Meadow Brook Theatre, is one of those charming, unlikely comedies that we know couldn’t happen in real life—except that it has.... Continue Reading
Read John Monaghan’s review of “Sex with Strangers” at Detroit Public Theatre, for FREEP
A Michigan blizzard in the middle of March helps set the scene for “Sex with Strangers,” the romantic drama playing through April 3 at the... Continue Reading
Read Patty Nolan’s review of MOT’s The Tender Land, for Examiner.com
No 20th Century composer understood heartland America better than Aaron Copland. No composer championed the common man the way Copland did. The music for his opera... Continue Reading
Read The Freep on “Matilda” at The Fisher
It only makes sense that 5-year-old Matilda Wormwood — a math whiz, a voracious reader and wise beyond her years — would be the subject of a play... Continue Reading
Read John Monaghan’s review of “Low Hanging Fruit,” for FREEP
“Low Hanging Fruit” shines a light on the little-discussed plight of homeless female veterans. For that alone, it deserves praise. The play, a 2014 work... Continue Reading
Read FREEP’s preview of MOT’s production of “The Tender Land”
In 1978, the creators of the Matrix festival in Midland were looking for a high-profile way to put their new arts event on the map,... Continue Reading
Read Patty Nolan’s review of Matrix’s “agua de luna” for Examiner.com
“Agua de luna (psalms for the rouge)” is the beautifully performed production now at the Matrix Theatre – a world-premiere work commissioned especially for the... Continue Reading
Read the playwright on UDM’s Michigan premiere of his “Alabama Story”
Alabama Story, the acclaimed historical drama by Michigan-bred playwright Kenneth Jones, will make its Wolverine State premiere in fall 2016 in a staging by The Theatre Company of... Continue Reading
Read Patty Nolan’s review of Ringwald’s “Mr. Burns,” for Examiner.com
Tap your finger-tips together and repeat in your most sinister voice, “eggs-suh-lent.” That’s the most appropriate one-word review we can offer for the new play... Continue Reading
Read about Matrix’s debut of Caridad Svich’s new play, in IXITI
The new play agua de luna (psalms for the rouge), debuting at Matrix Theatre Company on February 26th, doesn’t just depict a place—in this case, southwest Detroit—but it... Continue Reading