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Evil Dead: Blood, decapitation, chainsaw, demons…and music
Editor's Note: Evil Dead has returned to The City City Theatre. Read our review from 2015. When a show returns with many of the same... Continue Reading
Sultry Sexy “Carmen” at MOT begins David DiChiera’s final season
DETROIT—Bizet’s Carmen is such a universally loved opera that the Michigan Opera Theatre puts it on every five or six years. And for good reason.... Continue Reading
Trying to Fall in Love in “The Fall” at Planet Ant
HAMTRAMCK—How appropriate that The Fall opened over the weekend of the often-scorned romantic holiday, Sweetest Day. But give the quirky romantic comedy, which kicks off... Continue Reading
“The Actress” at The Snug dives into Diva life with flair
MARINE CITY, Mich. – The intimate seating and stage arrangement at The Snug Theatre is ideally suited for a production like The Actress by Peter... Continue Reading
“Gentleman’s Guide” kills at Fisher Theatre
DETROIT, Mich. – Serial killers have been the stuff of comedy—on stage, anyway—since at least "Arsenic and Old Lace” opened on Broadway in 1941, and... Continue Reading
“Car Stars” taps into Detroit’s storied past with song and story
WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. – It’s tough to say at this point whether Car Stars, a new musical presentation making its world premiere at The Berman... Continue Reading
“Mr. Joy” brings laughs, tears and searing truth from headlines to the stage
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – One of the great canards that we find in the news today is that white people in positions of power –... Continue Reading
Read the Detroit Free Press story on the metro Detroit roots to “Alabama Story”
The staging of “Alabama Story” at Detroit’s Marlene Boll Theatre not only marks the Michigan premiere of the well-regarded play about a nearly forgotten censorship... Continue Reading
