A Free Night of Theater came to Michigan this month...
Back in 2005, Theatre Communications Group - a national theater advocacy group based in New York City - created what has become a very successful promotional effort at bringing new audiences into the...
View ArticleBAD BLOGGER
Yes, I've been a bad blogger this month. With so much happening - including tomorrow night's Wilde Awards - there hasn't been much time to blog. (Trust me...it's not because I haven't had much to...
View ArticleFOLLOW-UP: WHERE DID ALL THE SHOWS GO?
Back on June 22 I wrote about the lack of shows for the month of July and wondered what the heck was the cause. (As of that date, there were only 35 shows on my calendar vs. 65 the year before.) Now...
View ArticleONE LAST CHANCE TO SEE AMAZING THEATER
Back last fall Glen Allen Pruett and Patricia Ansuini returned home to Detroit and presented it with a gift: their production of The Madness of Oscar Wilde by Sebastian Melmoth.After their short run,...
View ArticleEAST DOES NOT MEET WEST
It's common knowledge that Michigan is two different states when it comes to politics, religion and the economy: The eastern half is more liberal/Democratic, the west is more conservative/Republican;...
View ArticleWHERE DID ALL THE SHOWS GO?
As I was going through the upcoming July schedule to start setting up our review schedules, something became immediately obvious: The number of shows on my calendar have dropped dramatically from July...
View ArticleA MILLION STRONG AND GROWING
I was taking a look this morning at the data I receive every day pertaining to the traffic on EncoreMichigan.com and realized that on June 8 we reached our one-millionth hit in 2010! That's four months...
View ArticleSTARTING JUNE WITH RANDOM THOUGHTS
THOUGHT 1: When you see 70 to 80 shows a year, it's rare to see the same show twice, but that's what happened last Friday night when I headed to the Hilberry Theatre to see Palmer Park for the second...
View ArticleTHE GOSPEL TRUTH
There's a reason why Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit is the state's top theater training program for young people - and the answer has been on display this weekend and last at the Detroit Film...
View ArticleJUST THE FACTS
I get a report that tracks which articles on EncoreMichigan.com visitors go to once they reach the home page. It also tells me where the traffic comes from. The data is presented as a three-month...
View ArticleTHE END IS NEAR...
Yes, the end is near - of the 2009-10 theater season, that is. So the last shows we'll review for purposes of The 2010 Wilde Awards will be those that open the weekend of May 14-15.Shows that open (or...
View ArticleTHE GERM OF AN IDEA...
As regular readers of my reviews on EncoreMichigan.com already know, I unexpectedly found myself at The Jewish Ensemble Theatre this past Saturday night for the United States professional premiere of...
View ArticleOH, WHAT A DAY
At about 12:30 this morning I was asked, "So...what's your typical day like?" My response was to laugh. "There IS no such thing as a typical day," I said. And the last 36 hours or so perfectly...
View ArticleTHE DOG-GONE GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION
One of the shows I was looking forward to most this season was one I had never seen before. Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead received a lot of press when it first arrived in New York a...
View ArticleMY WISH LIST FOR THE NEW SEASON
I had an interesting conversation recently with a reader who questioned why I mention certain "flaws" in my reviews - such as actors who don't wait for laughs to die down before continuing their lines,...
View ArticleDAMN DAMMED
Last weekend I had no shows to review, so I ended up in at Tipping Point for the final performance of The Lady with All the Answers - which I loved. The story of Ann Landers, actress JuliaGlander...
View ArticleA MYTH SHATTERED?
Last fall, tongues wagged and bets were placed when six brave professional theaters decided to buck tradition and open shows over the Thanksgiving weekend. Why? Because experience over the past decades...
View ArticleTHREE STRIKES
This past weekend was one of the strangest the theater community has experienced in recent memory. In no particular order:Tipping Point Theatre's Julia Glander encountered a situation that most actors...
View ArticleYET MORE RANDOM THOUGHTS
Yes, I've been absent from this blog for a few weeks. But here's why: January and February have been the busiest ever - with 123 professional, amatuer and collegiate shows opening (which translates to...
View ArticleMORE RENEGADES IN 2010
Late last summer I was privileged to be invited to participate in the Renegade Theatre Festival in Lansing's Old Town District. I had a blast, and it was a pleasure watching the area's professional,...
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