Encore Michigan
Mind The Gap’s ‘Happy Birthday Dear Alice’ explores Mother and “adult” children journey
ANN ARBOR, Mich.–Hardly anyone wants to end up in a nursing home. To be fair, there are “senior living options,” and there are “nursing homes.”... Continue Reading
Slipstream’s ‘Othello’ bends genders and sexuality
FERNDALE, Mich.–One of the benefits of adapting Shakespeare’s plays and changing genders of the characters as they lie, connive, dissemble, plot and generally act badly... Continue Reading
A trim ‘Angels in America; at What A Do
SPRINGFIELD, Mich.–For young people today, it’s easy to forget what it was like to be gay in the 1980s (or even earlier). AIDS was a... Continue Reading
‘Titanic’ sets sail at The Riverbank
MARINE CITY, Mich.–As theatre genres go, musicals are more often associated with comedy or farce than with tragedy. But when a tragedy is written as... Continue Reading
Farmers Alley brings ‘Liberace’ back from the dead
KALAMAZOO, MICH.–Liberace was a man who invites stereotypes. It’s easy to make assumptions about who he was and why he did the things he did.... Continue Reading
‘Appropriate’ at Planet Ant rattles and rolls the family saga
HAMTRAMCK, Mich.–Whether it’s Eugene O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” or Tracy Letts’ "August: Osage County," or even to some degree "The Lion In Winter,"... Continue Reading
World Premiere: ‘Geranium On The Windowsill…’ at Flint Youth Theater spotlights kids’ need to be free and fidget
FLINT, Mich.–We’ve all heard the message before: “Don’t speak unless spoken to.” “Sit up straight.” “Listen.” “Good boys and good girls always…” They are messages... Continue Reading
Brass Tacks succeeds with ‘The 39 Steps’ in Ann Arbor
ANN ARBOR—The 39 Steps is a terrific movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1935. It is such a classic scenario–the wrongly accused man on the... Continue Reading