Encore Michigan
The rumors are true about Pigeon Creek’s School for Scandal
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.–Rumor has it that Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company has put together a playful, interactive production of The School for Scandal. Believe it. I... Continue Reading
Sharp and Sassy, the Barn goes to Avenue Q
In 2003, Avenue Q was a provocative and hilariously original new musical that brought all kinds of puppetry realness to Broadway, winning three coveted Tony... Continue Reading
Summer Circle takes us back to musical theater glory days
Brad Willcuts, the director of “A Grand Night for Singing” and the new musical theater professor at Michigan State University, takes his audiences backward in... Continue Reading
Opera Grand Rapids’ Student Prince is head of the class
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.–The music in Opera Grand Rapids’ current production The Student Prince is as addictive as a bowl of salty pretzels. Let’s face it.... Continue Reading
Eavesdropping comes at a price with “Stella & Lou”
NORTHVILLE, Mich.–Watching Stella & Lou is like being the fly on a the wall to a very private and intimate conversation between two friends on... Continue Reading
The turkey is great at Cornwell’s “Nana’s Naughty Knickers”
MARSHALL, Mich.–The titular undergarments in Nana’s Naughty Knickers, the light-hearted sit-com-like farce currently on offer at Cornwell’s Dinner Theatre in here, are more silly than... Continue Reading
I love You. You’re Funny. Don’t Change.
WATERFORD, Mich.–I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, the musical sketch comedy by Jo DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts addresses very universal conflicts, situations, laughs, tender... Continue Reading
“Chapatti” shows going to the dogs can be a good and tender thing
WILLIAMSTON, Mich.–It’s easy to get lost in this world. With deep love can come deep pain and the world doesn’t always arrange itself so that... Continue Reading
Singing through the demise of love in “Last Five Years” at The Dio
PINCKNEY, Mich.–Stories about relationships gone bad or sideways are enduring and universal. Perhaps that’s why Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years has been performed... Continue Reading
Getting high on “American Idiot”
DETROIT–The struggles and angst of the post-9/11 twenty-something generation are at the core of Green Day’s American Idiot, a rock opera written by Billie Joe... Continue Reading