Encore Michigan

I really really wanted to like “Atomic.” The unlikely musical about the Manhattan Project, which led to the world's first nuclear weapons, is exactly the kind... Continue Reading

By Daniel Skora “The Robots are coming! The Robots are coming!” Actually, the Robots are already here and you can see them at the Puzzle... Continue Reading

DETROIT, Mich.–Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella,  the 2013 Tony Award-winning Broadway musical playing at The Detroit Opera House, is a delight not just for the (many) little... Continue Reading

In his new play, “Hockey, The Musical!” Detroit Free Press columnist Mitch Albom has one simple goal for the 90-minute, fast-paced, wacky comedy filled with... Continue Reading

MARSHALL, Mich.–When Matt Friedman takes the stage in Great Escape Stage Company’s production of Lanford Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize winning Talley’s Folly, he breaks the fourth... Continue Reading

ANN ARBOR, Mich.–The Belgian-born French troubadour Jacques Brel was passionately obsessed with love and death. And sex and death. And women and death. He had... Continue Reading

Lynn Lammers says theater audiences are often a homogenous group, and she’s out to change that. “Our audiences tend to look the same, and always... Continue Reading

ANN ARBOR, Mich.–Wild Swan Theater, to mark Black History Month, is performing Drum Me A Story, a trilogy of three African stories told through acting,... Continue Reading