Encore Michigan

Farmers Alley: ‘Beyond The Rainbow’ is beautiful complex and tragic

Review October 06, 2018
KALAMAZOO, Mich.–In the opening scene of Farmer’s Alley’s Beyond the Rainbow: The Judy Garland Musical, a dead ringer for the icon — ostensibly backstage before... Continue Reading

Detroit Mercy’s ‘Wittenberg’ a much needed reminder of when debate didn’t demonize

Review October 02, 2018
DETROIT, Mich.–Imagine. Two friends on opposite sides of thinking about the world, and they can discuss, debate, drink beer and part friends. The Detroit Mercy... Continue Reading

Flint Rep chooses emotional waters for premiere of ‘The Boatman’

Review October 01, 2018
FLINT, Mich.–The Boatman is a show designed to make you feel. It’s a show about memory, forgetting, dying and accepting the inevitable. It’s also a... Continue Reading

Gunderson opens the ‘Silent Sky’ at The Williamston

Review September 30, 2018
WILLIAMSTON, Mich.–What do you do when someone tries to hold you back from pursuing your passion? How do you pursue something forbidden to you for... Continue Reading

‘Diva Royale’ at Purple Rose follows suburban Moms to the Big Apple

Review September 29, 2018
CHELSEA, Mich.–Jeff Daniels' latest play, Diva Royale, follows three Midwest suburban housewives and mothers obsessed with the movie "Titanic" on a trip to New York... Continue Reading

‘Lady Day’ breaks hearts and barriers at The Whitney

Review September 28, 2018
DETROIT, Mich.–Billie Holiday had such a unique style of singing, her voice so poignant, that even when she was at the microphone clearly inebriated on... Continue Reading

Wayne State’s ‘Avenue Q’ comes to the neighborhood

Review September 28, 2018
DETROIT, Mich.–Avenue Q has become one of the most popular shows to do in regional theater these days, and even community theatre. And despite the... Continue Reading

‘Something Rotten’ takes Shakespeare farce up and over the top at Fisher

Review September 27, 2018
DETROIT, Mich.–Some stage shows are just a well-shaped giggle-fest with not much in the way of meaning, metaphor or tragic heroes. Such is the case... Continue Reading

‘Unsportsmanlike Conduct’ at Outvisible has uncanny timing for world premiere

Review September 22, 2018
ALLEN PARK, Mich.–What could have started out for playwright Jeff Stolzer as a merely timely story connected to the #metoo movement has turned out to... Continue Reading

Ixion steps over the line with its opening show

Review September 14, 2018
LANSING, Mich.–No parent of a teenager or young adult is unfamiliar with the concept of their child being possessed by a demon. It doesn’t even... Continue Reading

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